This entry was posted in CD Reviews on August 6, 2017 by Kate Molleson. Sara Mohr-Pietsch. “At the beginning, the ondes had a lot of religious repertoire,” Forget explains. Kate Molleson presents classical music on BBC Radio 3 Kate Molleson/Twitter. Publisher's summary. Listen now. Today - Alice finds her musical and spiritual home. In 2022 Catherine became the princess of Wales, a title previous held by her mother-in-law, the late Princess Diana. Kate Molleson is a journalist and broadcaster and one of the UK’s leading commentators on contemporary classical music. Each week, Tom and Kate will showcase recordings. Sat 13 Sep 2014 05. This week Kate Molleson focusses on Northern Ireland. This album opens with a 53-second piece called Tender: sweet, husky, tentative sounds circling in space like a mobile. Donizetti’s Scottish opera recorded at Munich’s Philharmonie Gasteig with tenor Joseph Calleja as Edgardo and baritone Ludovic Tézier as Enrico. Approximate run time: 1 hour 30 mins. Roland Kayn: A Little Electronic Milky Way of Sound (Frozen Reeds) 22 movements, 14 hours and 16 CDs worth of spangling cosmic sound play: this premiere release of the magnum opus by German composer Roland Kayn is a colossus and a marvel. An alternative history of 20th-century composers—nearly all of them women or composers of color—by a leading international music critic Think of a composer right now. Kate Molleson and Kevin Le Gendre explore the lives and music of revolutionary jazz power couple John and Alice Coltrane. Kate Molleson promotes contemporary music on her Radio 3 shows. Engaged in all styles of music, she was. 2016 by Kate Molleson. £ 18. Beethoven: Quartets, volume 3 Elias Quartet (Wigmore Hall Live) In 2015 the Elias Quartet (sisters Sara and Marie Bitlloch plus violinist Donald Grant and violist Martin Saving) ended several years of intense Beethoven immersion by recording the complete quartet cycle live at the. 45. The World's Largest Island. 15 EDT Last modified on Mon 3 Dec 2018 10. Kate Molleson and Tom Service present exclusive recordings, new releases, composer interviews and features. “It’s been a long time coming,†he says. He's the voice of Radio 3's The Listening Service and frequently presents the new music show Hear and Now, the BBC Proms. 99 £9. This entry was posted in Features on April 11, 2017 by Kate Molleson. Show more. Approximate run time: 1 hour 30 mins. Kate Molleson tells. Revamping a cult masterpiece is a dangerous business, and Bright Phoebus — the 1972 album by Mike and Lal Waterson — really is a masterpiece. Kaija Saariaho. £25 £21. Music. Great to be apart of this wonderful company! Perteet Inc. Tue 13 May 2014 09. She presents BBC Radio 3's New Music Show and Music Matters, and her articles are published in the Guardian, The Herald, BBC Music Magazine, Opera, Gramophone and elsewhere. 20:40 . On the other side, his attention to detail and the calibre of his hand-picked band have brought new status to music once. They say the way to deal with nerves is straight-up. 'Wonderful . 119, BB 127View the profiles of people named Kate Molleson. To find out, Kate Molleson travelled 1,000 miles across the country to meet latest star Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar, drinking mare’s milk, sleeping in yurts and recording its vocal masters Kate MollesonBrief Summary of Book: Sound Within Sound: Radical Composers of the Twentieth Century by Kate Molleson. Kate Molleson visits Glyndebourne Festival Opera to hear about its new production of Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers, and Tom Service meets conductor Michael Tilson Thomas. Having grown up. Listen now. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. 80 years of broadcasting history, one esteemed presenter for the past 25… Nae pressure!! First stops: Ligeti, Scarlatti, Tailleferre 💥”Kate Molleson Fri 28 Aug 2015 07. True, the Australian saxophonist makes chart-topping albums of film music and low-lit love ballads. 01 EST Last modified on Thu 26 Mar 2020 08. “It was the first time I’d said yes to anything. Radiocarbon dating of unaccompanied skeletons discovered during the excavation of an Iron Age, Roman and Saxon settlement at Yarnton, Oxfordshire, unexpectedly revealed the presence of a middle Iron Age cemetery (3rd or 4th century cal BC). The job is more collaborative, more sociable. Kate Molleson presents a live edition of Music Matters from. Home My BooksTraversing the globe from Ethiopia and the Philippines to Mexico, Russia and beyond, Kate Molleson tells the stories of ten figures who altered the course of musical history, only to be sidelined and denied recognition during an era that systemically favoured certain sounds – and people – over others. Mark’s interest in music began at the age of 8 when he became a choirboy and he has since sung in choirs all his life. The Blind Astronomer. Show more As Mental Health Awareness Week draws to a close, Kate Molleson surveys the musical world's. I was in Jerusalem to make a documentary about Emahoy. 2019 by Kate Molleson. 'Wonderful . This week the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra devote a special two-day retrospective to the music of Elliott Carter. . History is full of the times we got it wrong. Sub-Genre: Music. For ages 16+ Dates & times. Photograph: David Grinly. Listen live. 15 EDT Last modified on Mon 3 Dec 2018 10. ”. ” He’s looking sheepish, like he’s just acknowledged a big guilty secret. Schubertiad Crail Church, Fife. Kate Molleson is a Glasgow-based music critic. A groundbreaking music history book from BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson, which fundamentally changes the way we think about classical music and the musicians who. 4y Report this post Report Report. First published in BBC Music Magazine, January 2019 George Benjamin began writing his first opera at the age of 12. ”. A radical new book by journalist, critic and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson, which fundamentally changes the way we think about classical music and the musicians who made it on a global scale. Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds: Ambient sound and radical listening in the age of communication. It is a difficult field for many: we have watched the transition of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring from denunciation as chaos to maturing as. I f you don’t know the deft and gossamer music of Bryn Harrison, this album would be a beautiful place to start. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley community to discover, request, read, and review. Kate Molleson. September 2019. The following evening, she introduced a (ragged) performance of. Kate Molleson meets Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho in Paris - the city she has made her home since 1982. Reviewed in short: New books from Jonathan Freedland, Kate Molleson, Linda Villarosa and Benjamin Wood. Paperback – June 1, 2023. Since May 2023, some weeks have been presented by Kate Molleson. Jo Gibson presents the results of research exploring the experiences of musicians working in participatory music-making. This entry was posted in Features on November 10, 2014 by Kate Molleson. 'Wonderful . “Some news 🥁 Big honour to be joining @BBCRadio3’s Composer of the Week. . She recounts fascinating life stories, gives overviews of their works, and undertakes interviews where. Mermaids and mermen — let’s call them merfolk — live for approximately 300 years, after which they turn into sea foam. Jun 24, 2018, 1:30 AM [ 5] Citation Link linkedin. 45pm. Kate Molleson. First published in The Herald on 8 March, 2017. Innovators widening our musical horizons. First published by Sinfini on 11 August, 2014. Emahoy Tsegué Maryam Guèbrou, aged 23. Polar Bear is London’s fiercely imaginative jazz-ish five-piece led by drummer Seb Rochford. 26 EST. Brad Mehldau, François-Xavier Roth. The World's Largest Island. The love, because I want to shout from the rooftops that classical music is gripping, essential, personally and politically game changing. Where multiple teeth were observed, the average age estimated from all available teeth was utilized. He started making prototypes in 1915 but the instrument was officially born in 1928: a wonder of early electronics whose intangible, eerie-sweet voice captured the imagination of the age. I got to 30 without really considering whether my music-making might have a wider usefulness. 30 EDT Last modified on Mon 3 Dec 2018 10. Thu 6 Jul, 7. Talk in the cafes was gloomy: Canada had shuffled to the right, boosting Stephen Harper’s Conservative government from minority to forcible majority and leaving the French-speaking, left-leaning province of Quebec yet again at political odds. The Blind Astronomer. Molleson's first week was about György Ligeti. Available now. First published in The Herald on 14 October, 2015 At the end of December, 1967, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) aired an experimental radio documentary called The Idea of North. Abstract. The Berlin Philharmonic’s “The Golden Twenties” brings to life the city of that decade. This entry was posted in Live Reviews on October 27, 2014 by Kate Molleson. 00 EDT Last modified on Tue 17 Jan 2023 07. First published in The Herald on 25 February, 2015. Post navigationKate Molleson presents the world premiere of Silicon by Robert Laidlow. Dimensions: 234 x 153 x 26 mm. The Edinburgh 70 archive series begins on August 8 at 1pm on BBC. I’m no great singer, but Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou only really trusted me after I had sung to her. Fri 7 Feb 2014 11. Next on. Now she is back in Berlin and, for the first time since she was a toddler, she isn’t tied down by any kind of training scheme or orchestral contract. Born in 1923, she. Kate Molleson visits the world’s largest island to explore the role of traditional and new music for its communities today. 00 EST Last modified on Tue 18 Apr 2017 11. Venue: Alison House, Atrium (G10) Abstract. 44 minutes. Donald, from Kirkintilloch, parlayed a degree in psychology and arts from St Andrews into a job as a BBC studio manager back in 1977, became a Radio 3 presenter. Kate Molleson is a journalist and broadcaster, and one of the UK's leading commentators on contemporary classical music. Thu 6 Jul, 7. She studied performance in Montreal and musicology in London, where she specialised in. Her book is a study of ten composers she admires but who she feels have been left out of official histories of the last century. However, I’m reserving my greatest excitement for Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century (Faber, July), in which Kate Molleson, the Radio 3 presenter, will tell the story. 99. Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, pictured aged 23. ”. Hearing the mighty voices of Ferrier and Wunderlich from our familiar streets, the grandeur of Norman, the great flourish of Bolet, the dignity of Anda and Haskil – all this has been a reminder of the clout and dogged creative ambition on which the festival built its legacy. On the Scottish Awards for New Music. Exciting content features. ISBN: 9780571363223. From 2010-2017 she was a music. Thursday August 18 2022, 5. “And it was naive and terrible and thankfully came to an end halfway down page 34. Be ready to look up a lot of very interesting recordings. Her documentaries (BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service) include a portrait of Ethiopian pianist/composer Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam. 45pm. Her mother asked if she wanted to take harp lessons. His second effort, L’amico Fritz, is as pastel and sweet as Cav is blood. First published in The Big Issue, 23-30 March. . Imogen Holst: String chamber music Court Lane Music (NMC) Imogen Holst is in the blood of NMC records: in 1984 – the year she died – she set up the foundation that would end up kickstarting the label five years later. First published in the Guardian on 12 October, 2017. Show more. Reviewed in short: New books from Jonathan Freedland, Kate Molleson, Linda Villarosa and Benjamin Wood. For many years he dressed in orange jumpers, then latterly all in white. Available now. She presents BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show and Music Matters, and her articles have been published in the Guardian, New Statesman, Prospect, The Herald, BBC Music Magazine and elsewhere. Fifty years after his death, the Russian iconoclast remains indefinable – a stylistic chameleon who continues to confound his audiences. Later we get Tender Second Version — just 47 seconds this time, but now with more tremble and more pain. Show more. Episodes ( 4 Available) Piers Hellawell’s Rapprochement. This entry was posted in Features on May 22, 2014 by Kate Molleson. For ages 16+ Dates & times. From 2010-2017 she was a music. This entry was posted in Live Reviews on February 13, 2014 by Kate Molleson. Presented by Kate Molleson . Review: Tectonics 2016. Retaining the same timeslot on Saturday evenings, New Music Show will feature a regular new presenting line-up of Tom Service and Kate Molleson. First published in The Herald on 28 May, 2014. 45 EST Last modified on Tue 18 Apr 2017 11. Imagine the most severe voices in folk music pitched against lush, boozy, crushingly tender instrumentals. First published in The Herald on 24 October, 2018. Kate Molleson. Kate Molleson is a journalist and broadcaster and one of the UK’s leading commentators on contemporary classical music. He started reading music around the age of 16, and jokes that “the writing was on the wall”, compositionally speaking, when he started turning up at band rehearsals with 20-minute instrumental tracks that were “basically all bridge. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Post navigationAn album devoted to the golden age of bel canto Lucia di Lammermoor (Erato, 2014). This entry was posted in Features on March 11, 2014 by Kate Molleson. M aybe it’s perverse to pair Ilan Volkov with a totem of the Romantic canon such as Tchaikovsky’s Manfred. Faber will publish the as yet untitled work by Kate Molleson in Spring 2022. Facebook gives people the power to. Age recommendation. 2015 by Kate Molleson. 55 EDT Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind InstrumentsEpisode 5 of 5. £18. You can read this before Sound Within Sound: Radical Composers of the. “Setting the story of Pied Piper of Hamelin,” he winces. 99 £18. . . 3/5 - Summer Series - Anastasia Kobekina, Alessandro Fisher, Alexander Gadjiev, Rob Luft. 🧐 😀. She presents BBC Radio 3's New Music Show and Music Matters, and her articles are published in the Guardian, The Herald, BBC Music Magazine, Opera, Gramophone and elsewhere. Kate meets the Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir, whose big orchestral pieces feature layers of dense sound reflecting her inner world and nature as well - she's. Kate Molleson is a journalist and broadcaster. kate molleson @KateMolleson. Who can say for sure. . Kate Molleson is joined by South African cellist, singer and composer Abel Selaocoe with his cello in tow, as he prepares to tour this autumn with The Bantu Ensemble. Abel talks about the "swirling cultures" from which he takes his inspiration, whether it's the different church traditions in South A…A flavour of Tectonics, with Kate Molleson. Episodes ( 4 Available) Piers Hellawell’s Rapprochement. 2019 by Kate Molleson. Kate Molleson is a fine communicator with an excellent appetite for detail. Kate Molleson. Most musicians — not all, but most — no longer want that old-school authoritative figure of the Victorian portraits. She presents BBC Radio 3's New Music Show and Music Matters, and her articles are published in the Guardian, The Herald, BBC Music Magazine, Opera, Gramophone and elsewhere. First published in The Herald on 26 August, 2013. Post navigationKate Molleson: 'Where we are at now is tokenism without thinking of the. Kate Molleson is a Radio 3 presenter and music journalist. . Anoushka Shankar learned the good old way. Back Submit. 99. First published in The Herald on 2 October, 2013. I t’s hard to imagine the Cologne contemporary music collective Ensemble Musikfabrik deliberately timing a. She has worked a multitude of positions in these fields, and has been able to build her experience globally while working in a large. Kate Molleson. As a kid he played trumpet in a local jazz band and started composing semi-formally around the age of 15; eventually he studied music in Boston where he met Schoenberg (whose music he did not like) and joined the communist party. At the tender age of 29, young Fergus himself became director of the Dublin International Theatre Festival after five years as its deputy director, and his era there was by all accounts a fresh and energetic one during which he commissioned new work from the likes of Seamus Heaney, Roddy Doyle and Brian Friel. From 2010-2017 she was a music. Kate Molleson: 27 classical concerts not to miss. Photograph: Kate Molleson. 15 - 6. All photos courtesy UP Center for Ethnomusicology. Review: The Eighth Door / Bluebeard’s Castle. It is a difficult field for many: we have watched the transition of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring from denunciation as chaos to maturing as. 2014 by Kate Molleson. It’s that time. Terrible. Dove, one of Britain’s most compelling, accessible, prolific and socially engaged opera composers, is turning 60. Kate Molleson is a music journalist who regularly presents BBC Radio 3 programmes including Breakfast, Music Matters and Afternoon Concert. Interview: David Watkin. Kate Molleson marks the 150 anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninov's birth. The Honky Tonk Nun. Available now. “In some ways I feel like I haven’t been away, but on the other hand I had an incredibly enriching life while I was gone. Publisher's summary. Kate Molleson Wed 25 Jan 2017 07. A radical and compelling new history of 20th century composers, shining light on the sonic pioneers whose work transformed musical history. Puerto Rican astrophysicist Wanda Diaz-Merced is revolutionising space science through sound, enabling exploration of the cosmos by ear. At age 6, Sister Guèbrou was sent to a boarding school in. Béla Bartók's The Miraculous Mandarin in Building a Library with Kate Molleson and Andrew McGregor. A radical new book by journalist, critic and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson, which fundamentally changes the way we think about classical music and the musicians who made it on a global scale. . She lights up when she describes music that has the brutal physicality and. Elizabeth Alker. A few year back, an episode of BBC Radio Four’s In Our Time focused on TS Eliot’s The Waste Land. Kuniko (Linn) Whether architects like it or not, buildings will be scruffed up by the humans who use them,. 2018 by Kate Molleson. 29 EDT Last modified on Thu 26 Mar 2020 08. I think you should ignore them. Continue reading → This entry was posted in Features on September 4, 2013 by Kate Molleson . Kate Molleson tells. £18. Available now. Kate Molleson travels to Cairo to discover a lost aural music tradition of microtonal finesse, potently emotional voices and spectacularly skilful instrumentalists. She has presented documentaries for. This is a book of discovery that speaks of music as a life force, that urges. 11hFirst published in The Herald in July, 2011. . Photograph: Kate Molleson. First published in the Guardian on 14 January, 2016. The music critic and broadcaster Kate Molleson introduces us to ten 20th-century composers whose works are rarely included in the “canon” of classical music – because they are not white, male and Western. One has missed the broadcast. 2016 by Kate Molleson. 31 EDT. ‘Wild-Card Thursdays’ will see string students turn up once a. She presents BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show and Music. T here is real heritage here: formed in Moscow in 1945, the original Borodins learned Shostakovich’s quartets. SCO/Gardiner; Aimard/Tamestit/Simpson Usher Hall; Queen’s Hall. Presented by Kate Molleson. This is the impassioned and exhilarating story of the composers who dared to challenge the conventional world of classical music in the twentieth century. Same goes for music, and Xenakis — architect as well supremely mathematical composer — loved the unruly energy whipped up by what he called ‘faithfulness, pseudo-faithfulness and unfaithfulness’ in. Further information. First published in The Herald on 13 June, 2018; photo of Kate MccGwire's Sasse/Sluice at Snape Thea Musgrave — Scottish composer, conductor, pianist and teacher who turned 90 last month — thrusts a glass of wine into my hand. Think jazz, electronic music, improvisational music, folk,. “To cure me of a case of the jitters, would you sing a song?” Karine Polwart asked her Celtic Connections audience, who cheerfully obliged with a round of Matt McGinn’s daft number Oor Wee Wean can Sook a Bar of Chocolate (“promoting. First published in the Guardian on 25 January, 2018. Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up. Show more. First published in The Herald on 12 February, 2014. 44. Kate Molleson meets Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho in Paris, the city she has made her home since 1982. The Berlin Philharmonic came to Glasgow, twice, for the first time since the 1950s. Kate Molleson is a journalist and broadcaster. Buy Sound Within Sound by Kate Molleson from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25. BBC Radio 3 listeners know Kate Molleson as one of Britain’s best-respected voices on contemporary classical music. Kate Molleson. Show more. Home. . Ensemble musikFabrik Usher Hall, Edinburgh. He's the voice of The Listening Service and frequently presents Radio 3's New Music Show, the BBC Proms, and documentaries. Somehow he’s always been a more rounded, more grounded kind of touring virtuoso than many, though. Kate Molleson, Sound within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century. Kate Molleson is a music journalist who regularly presents BBC Radio 3 programmes including Breakfast, Music Matters and Afternoon Concert. Escaping the news on the Today programme recently, like many others, I switched over to Radio 3. ” He started playing the piano, which he calls his “grief balm”, he. Her articles. John McCabe: Piano Music John McCabe (Naxos) John McCabe was a musician of steely, graceful intellect. Get Sean Molleson's 🔍 contact information, 📞 phone numbers, 🏠 home addresses, age, background check, white pages, social media profiles, resumes and CV, photos and videos, skilled experts, public records, arrest records, places of. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. At age 6, Sister Guèbrou was sent to a boarding school in. First published in the Guardian on 27 April, 2017. Yorkshire-born Hannah French is a musical butterfly: a broadcaster and academic, a public speaker and educator, and a baroque flautist. Kate Molleson. First published in the Guardian on 9 May, 2016. Jun 24, 2018, 1:30 AM [ 5] Citation Link linkedin. | Tempo | Cambridge Core. 21 EDT. One soul who will not hear the bugle’s call is Elizabeth Alker, who is being groomed as the new Kate Molleson — and if you think one Molleson is one too many, you stand in excellent company. Date: Thursday 9 March 2023. Onwards to his next band, the London Symphony Orchestra, who come to EIF for two nights. Kate Molleson in conversation with cellist Abel Selaocoe and pianist Leif Ove Andsnes. Faber, 2022, 314 pp. She died in 1983 at the age of 91. Interview: John De Simone. Best recordings of 2018. Home. 44 minutes. Kate Molleson. This entry was posted in CD Reviews on April 15, 2015 by Kate Molleson. was socially prominent as well. You can read this before Sound Within. She presents BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show and Music Matters , and her articles have been published in the Guardian , New Statesman , Prospect , The Herald , BBC Music Magazine and elsewhere. 49 EDT. The loose framework for the book was provided by a conversation with composer George E. 99. Readers of a certain age may recall the Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club on television in the Seventies, when the cloth-capped Colin Crompton. She has presented documentaries for. Retaining the same timeslot on Saturday evenings, New Music Show will feature a regular new presenting line-up of Tom Service and Kate Molleson. All Articles. This entry was posted in Features on August 18, 2018 by Kate Molleson. Latest articles. SOUND WITHIN SOUND. Tue 13 May 2014 09. She has presented documentaries for. Kate Molleson chooses her favourite recording of Bartók's The Miraculous Mandarin. The first composer chosen, on 2 August 1943, was Mozart, followed over the following four weeks by Beethoven, Schubert, Bach and Haydn. Run times may vary by up to 20 minutes as they can be affected by last-minute programme changes, intervals and. The Shetland folk musician is arguing the case for a rougher kind of energy: “you should be firing out the lines at this point,” he urges a quintet of opera singers, who seem more immediately. 15 EDT Last modified on Fri 13 Sep 2019 07. This is a book of discovery that speaks of music as a life force, that urges us to live our lives through music. Kate Molleson. This entry was posted in Features on August 26, 2015 by Kate Molleson. Three out of four members of the all-male vocal group are nearing retirement. 4. T hese quartets don’t do what they should. Time: 5. First published in The Herald on 13 April, 2016. On the day we’re due to speak she has six hours of train travel on various branch lines: she lives in Brecon, a village in the Welsh hills whose charms don’t include speedy access. I was in Jerusalem to make a documentary about Emahoy. Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, the composer and piano-playing nun who died this week at the age of 99, had an extraordinary life, which included being a trailblazer for women's. The Wigmore Hall in London is doubling up commemorations for the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising and the Queen’s 90th birthday — in itself a provocative move — and is doing so by programming an obscure baroque ode written by a German-French composer for. 30pm”); by 11 he was sitting his Grade 8 exam. Listen now. 38. Composer of the Week. Sound Within Sound is a brave, brilliant and rollicking reappraisal of classical music, focusing on ten. Lower quality (64kbps) 06 October 2023. First published in The Herald on 3 June, 2015. Introduced by Kate Molleson live from the Royal Albert Hall, Glyndebourne Festival Opera presents the opera for the first time with its original score and French libretto. Her love of Bach, Beethoven, Vivaldi and Tchaikovsky followed soon after; then her interests moved to ambitious modern composers, many of whom were not western. Kate Molleson visits Greenland, the world’s largest island, to explore the role of traditional and new music for its communities today. This is a book of discovery that speaks of music as a life force, that urges us to live our lives through music. Kate Molleson. Molleson, P. Kate Molleson tells. View Kate Molleson. The second contains Mahler’s Ninth Symphony; the first features one of Bernstein’s best works, his Second Symphony, ‘The Age of Anxiety’, based on W.