The making of music - the Sixties

October 17th, 2007 by Steve Bowbrick

Tell me you don’t hear the tiniest trace of disdain in James Naughtie’s voice as he walks us through a motley parade of 1960s post-serialists and proto-minimalists. I think he’d really rather be telling us about Verdi or Mozart. Fascinating series, though (Real, MP3), and the music which goes out straight afterwards on Radio 3 (Real, MP3) is beautiful and surprising.

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