Top 10 tone-poems
- Wednesday, January 15, 2014
A form pioneered by Liszt that was taken to new heights by Sibelius, Tchaikovsky and Richard Strauss
A form pioneered by Liszt that was taken to new heights by Sibelius, Tchaikovsky and Richard Strauss
The 10 greatest ballet scores in classic recordings, from Tchaikovsky to Copland
The dramatic power and grandeur in the operas and tone-poems Strauss wrote from 1885-1910 has never been equalled.
Archive feature from the December 1990 issue written shortly after Leonard Bernstein's death. Edward Greenfield looks back at the life of one the 20th century's leading classical music figures
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