The opening bars of Prokofiev’s first violin concerto always remind me of the start of the Sibelius concerto. Both begin sotto voce, with the violin wandering through a lyrical melody over a string ...
Paragraph, Vol. 31, No. 1, Roland Barthes Retroactively: Reading the Collège de France Lectures (March 2008), pp. 9-22 (14 pages) Though explicit references to music are infrequent in Barthes's ...