If you don’t reach for a tissue in the first thirteen minutes then you’re a cold-hearted bastard.
The Gramophones are the kind of signpost for future discovery that people like me need to fill out our classical music experience.
I was cutting things a little fine arriving in my seat panting and sweating just as the first chord of Tchaikovsky’s Overture to Romeo and Juliet sounded. By its inclusion – 5 minutes longer than the billed duration – my heart rate had reduced and my face and neck had dried off. Conductor Yuri Simonov…
Why classical music is something I keep returning to time and time again.
Coalesce around a subject or an event and, if there’s a sense of loss attached to it, the classical music community has the power to celebrate and advocate in an inclusive and respectful way.