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LETTER of the MONTH
Invitation to the Dante
Should readers wish to explore further, as a footnote to Claire Jackson’s interesting article about Dante (November), another composer who was inspired by his writings was Boris Tishchenko (1939-2010), who wrote five very substantial ‘Dante’ Symphonies (Op. 123) as a separate entity to his other nine numbered symphonies. They are all available on CD but, unfortunately, are public performances and the sound quality ranges from average to very poor. The audience coughs on the disc of Symphonies Nos 1 and 2 are so intrusive that, having listened to it once, I disposed of it. But the other two discs –
