BBC Music February 2025

Continuing on the cinematic theme, Lord of the Rings composer Howard Shore shares his memories of Middle-earth and more with our reviews editor and resident film nut Michael Beek. Elsewhere, we examine Korngold’s fraught Symphony No. 1. Despite the composer's own emphatic denials, there is much to suggest that this taut, anguished symphony is a depiction of the darkest days of Nazism, as Jessica Duchen reveals.