Searing musical responses to human suffering, plus May’s best classical concerts
BBCSO/Brabbins, Barbican ★★★★☆ The centenary of Luigi Nono’s birth year is not being celebrated as widely this year as the radical Venetian composer deserves, although the challenges of such an undertaking are easy to understand. A few decades ago the BBC Symphony Orchestra might have devoted one of its famous annual monographic composers’ weekends to … Read more