Korngold was an Austrian wunderkind who took his considerable talents to Hollywood just as war broke. There he wrote film scores of new scope and invention, ‘wordless operas’ as he called them.

Korngold was an Austrian wunderkind who took his considerable talents to Hollywood just as war broke. There he wrote film scores of new scope and invention, ‘wordless operas’ as he called them.

Conductor Ryan Bancroft joins us to talk about his past as a dancer and his connection to the music of his homeland, America.

Conductor Ryan Bancroft joins us to talk about his past as a dancer and his connection to the music of his homeland, America.

The symbolism of Bach’s St Matthew Passion

The symbolism of Bach’s St Matthew Passion

Heroes, ruins and renewal: works of raw intensity by Beethoven and Strauss

Finding the route through Strauss’ ‘Metamorphosen’

Sibelius’ new symphonic sound

Sibelius’ new symphonic sound

Walton’s First Symphony

Verdi’s operatic mastery