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There's a lot more to the way Rachmaninov's third and final symphony works than the simple attractiveness of its tunes12 comments- 12 Nov 2013:
The Austrian composer's first symphony meshed the imagination and narrative of the symphonic poem with the architectural cohesion of earlier models. His crazily ambitious project changed the genre for ever32 comments 5 Nov 2013:
Is there a denser, deeper, richer and stranger symphonic work? And why is it not even called a symphony? Tom Service unravels Berio's Sinfonia5 comments- 29 Oct 2013:
In which Schumann reinvented his own compositional language and created an alternative way of thinking about the symphony – despite the onset of the syphilis that was eventually to kill him - 22 Oct 2013:
Max's first symphony is shot through with the presence of the sea and his isolated Orkney home. This is music that seethes and churns and shimmers and glows11 comments 15 Oct 2013:
The first of Haydn's Esterhazy symphonies, in Le Matin nothing is taken for granted, and its musical structure is full of startling moments24 comments- 8 Oct 2013:
Dismiss Elgar as a purveyor of fusty romanticism at your peril. This symphony glows with a strange, veiled radiance and reveals his true colouristic genius, writes Tom Service40 comments - 1 Oct 2013:
In the third in his symphony series, Tom Service goes back to 1786 Prague and Mozart's 38th symphony, in which you can hear the composer straining at the limits of what his orchestra, and the form, can do.20 comments - 23 Sep 2013:
Shostakovich's final symphony asks profound and disquieting questions and offers only ambiguities in return, writes Tom Service20 comments - 16 Sep 2013:
In the first in his new series Tom Service looks at the most famous, and influential, symphonic work of them all76 comments - 10 Sep 2013:
Next week, Tom Service begins a weekly series about the symphony, exploring through the greatest 50 how it tells the story of music and also our own place in the world27 comments
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