Bruckner is either a composer you get or you don’t. He was a certified eccentric, sexually repressed, gullible, naive. rustic, talented, and god knows what else. He was devoutly religious, Catholic, obsessive-compulsive and I think that is...

One of the most remarkable compositions of the Twentieth Century is Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs, written when the composer was in his 80’s. I have been listening to the versions in my collection recently because for some...