It’s one of classical music’s most haunting mysteries... Franz Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony has just two movements, yet it feels complete. Did he mean to stop there? Or leave it behind unfinished?
Evening fog chills the city, making a mysterious cover for things that go bump in the night. The San Francisco Symphony and San Francisco Opera are providing the soundtrack as Halloween creeps near.
Clarinetist Marcus Eley has an album called But Not Forgotten, which is how I learned about composer Dorothy Rudd Moore. She's a cofounder of the Society of Black Composers. Discover her haunting ...
Bostridge has little tone to his voice, though what there is is carefully modulated between the more melodic numbers – “Der Lindenbaum”, “Die Post” – and the drier, more pained ones like “Rückblick” ...