Per Norgard's Symphony No.2

Radio 3's Fifty Modern Classics by BBC

Oct 13, 201212:48Music

Novelist and critic Philip Hensher makes the case for Per Norgard's Symphony No.2, one of the first works in which the Danish composer used his own 'infinity series' to determine melody and form. With commentary from Pau...

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