A guide to Bernd Alois Zimmermann's music

His work required orchestra and conductor to perform star-jumps while shouting out the darkest parts of the Bible and Dostoevsky, and it converted me to contemporary classical musicSomething a bit different this week, the first composer in this series who isn't around any more. In fact, Bernd Alois Zimmerman died more than four decades ago, and he is someone whose music ought to be more celebrated than it is today. Here's the thing: a piece by German composer Zimmermann was the probably the sing...

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