The musical legacy of Ken Russell: composers' marble busts made flesh and blood

John Bridcut on Ken Russell, a film-maker who 'resisted the facts getting in the way of his visual imagination'The wild visual imagination of Ken Russell brought classical music to a whole new audience, and made his name notorious in respectable musical circles. His feature films about composers went straight for the jugular – sometimes almost literally, as in his blood-soaked Mahler. He loved the music, but he also loved the sex. He sold the idea of The Music Lovers on the basis that it was a...

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