Reviewing the Prado’s joint exhibition of Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana in the Art Newspaper three years ago, Brian Allen pronounced it well worth seeing but predicted that each of these pioneering 16th-century women artists ‘would wither in the spotlight of her own retrospective’. Was he right? In its new monographic exhibition devoted to Fontana,
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GramophoneThursday, April 28, 2022 The Romantic period was one of the most innovative in music history, characterised by lyrical melodies, rich harmonies, and emotive expression. Here's our beginner's guide to the greatest composers of the Romantic period Hector Berlioz (1803-69) Hector Berlioz’s life was all you’d expect – by turn turbulent and passionate, ecstatic and melancholic.…
The British conductor and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra record a revelatory performance of Holst’s ‘mood pictures’, while the guitarist-tenor duo cross continents and genres on the atmospheric Broken Branches