Stephen Johnson studied cello at the Northern School of Music, Manchester, and went on to study composition with Alexander Goehr at Leeds University. After a brief period working for BBC Radio 3 he moved into musical journalism. Since then he has broadcast frequently for BBC Radio 3, Radio 4 and World Service, with major projects including fourteen programmes about the music of Bruckner for the centenary of the composer's death (1996). He has written regularly for the
Independent, the
Guardian,
BBC Music Magazine and
Gramophone, and is the author of several books including
Bruckner Remembered (Faber, 1998) and
How Shostakovich Changed My Mind (Notting Hill Editions, 2018). In 2003 Johnson was voted Amazon.com Classical Music Writer of the Year. His radio documentary,
Shostakovich: Journey into Light, was nominated for a Sony Award in 2007, and in 2009 his documentary
Vaughan Williams: Valiant for Truth won a Sony Gold Award.
The Eighth Symphony was going to be different from anything Mahler had ever done before. The intensely personal dramas of his earlier symphonies were a thing of the past - or rather, they were now to be seen as preludes to this new, culminating symphonic statement: he was quite sure...
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