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Black Sky Thinking
Junk Shop Classical On Clara Schumann: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP
Clara Schumann had one of the most extraordinary lives in 19th century music, says Phil Hebblethwaite. Against the odds, she made it as a pianist, and she ought to have been recognised as a great composer too
Black Sky Thinking
Junk Shop Classical On Brahms: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP
Phil Hebblethwaite invites you into Brahms’s German Requiem, one of the worst-named pieces of classical music in the canon. It has nothing to do with nationalism, or the church, and should have been called what Brahms later suggested: A Human Requiem. It couldn’t be more relevant in 2017
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