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From The Lark Ascending to Sinfonia antartica, here are Ralph Vaughan Williams's greatest works in outstanding recordings from André Previn, Bernard Haitink, Adrian Boult and more ....
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Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was born in Russia in 1873 and died in the United States in 1943. Composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, he was another of those gifts the great tyrants of Europe Vladimir Lenin, Adolf Hitler bestowed on America. An aristocrat, an artist, a man of spiritual depth, Rachmaninoff was in every way a man of the kind that the Russian revolution wished to snuff out. Sensing this early in the revolution, he fled at the first possible moment. ....
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.… ....