November 2011
Conductor Vasily Petrenko has restored the RLPO to its former glory. He talks to BBC Music Magazine about his ambitious Shostakovich symphonies project. Plus: download your six free tracks from iTunes
Vasily Petrenko
With his searing Shostakovich and ravishing Rachmaninov, the superb Russian conductor has breathed new life into the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. He talks exclusively to Ivan Hewett
The Symphony
What is a symphony? And what are the symphonies that excite the top conductors? We explore orchestral music's most noble form
Victoria's Requiem
Jeremy Summerly names the finest recordings of this masterpiece of Renaissance choral writing
Maurice Duruflé
William Whitehead looks beyond the Requiem to find a French composer with a unique voice
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