It was Carl Dahlhaus who coined the phrase a€?dead timea€? to describe the state of the symphony between Schumann and Brahms. Christopher Fifield argues that many of the symphonies dismissed by Dahlha
Hans Richter (1843-1916) was the first conductor to gain international fame. His career began in Budapest, and he went on to dominate music-making in Vienna, Bayreuth, London, Manchester (with the Hal
Max Bruch (1838-1920), the German composer best known for his Violin Concerto in G minor, was in his day, a famous conductor and teacher as well as a prolific composer; yet he has been sadly neglected
In 1953, at the age of 41, Kathleen Ferrier, England's greatest lyric contralto, lost her courageous battle with breast cancer. Her huge appeal to a wide audience - in concerts, on records, on the rad
