15May
Fantasy classics: the new game
In a celebratory article about Elgar, launching the Daily Telegraph’s Elgar week, BBC Proms director Nicholas Kenyon observes of a distinguished scholar that ‘it is perhaps understandable of (Donald) Mitchell to regret that Elgar did not become more like Mahler.’ Come again? Apart from Elgar lacking any trace of irony or central-European angst, it would […]
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