LSO/Tilson Thomas – review

LSO St Luke's, LondonBesides being regarded as one of the greatest founding fathers of 20th-century modernism, Claude Debussy is also one of music's most intriguing might-have-beens. When he died in 1918, at the age of 55, Debussy seemed to be on the verge of discovering a wholly new musical world. The pieces he wrote in the final years of his life point towards a more austere, more "classical" language, especially the three sonatas that were all he lived to complete of a projected set of six fo...

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