Romanticism was a cultural, artistic and philosophical movement that developed in the 18th and 19th century as a reaction to the exasperated and exaggerated rationalism which characterized the ...

Prokofiev wrote his Sixth Symphony in the aftermath of World War Two and though it’s certainly an epic it’s far from clear that it ends in anything as simple as triumph. His ‘Autumnal Sketch’, which ...

What we now call impressionist music is a style introduced in late 19th Century France. It was a move away from the long, dramatic and emotional works of romanticism. Instead, the focus was on ...

Romanticism, he said, may perhaps be called the literature of intoxication and dream. Freud has pictured the human ego as living a harassed life between the conflicting claims of the instinctive, ...

Where the music bears a certain detachment - those ... harnessed the full spirit of ripe Russian Romanticism.