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Black Sky Thinking
Junk Shop Classical On Decca & EMI: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP
In 1958, Decca Records audaciously began to record Wagner’s epic, 15-hour Ring Cycle. As Phil Hebblethwaite explains, there was more at stake than art. Decca was a classical music underdog determined to land a knock-out punch on arch rival EMI
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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