Articles

Ethel Merman: A 100th-Anniversary Tribute
16 January 2008 would have seen the hundredth birthday of Ethel Merman. Sadly, the great lady of American show-business died a quarter of a century ago at age 76. One...
Karlheinz Stockhausen 1928-2007
The sudden death of Karlheinz Stockhausen has removed one of the last remaining figures from the post-war avant-garde, whose radical transformation of European new music at the start of the...
An Interview with Marcus Tristan Heathcock
Edward Clark, producer of the 2007 British Music Festival in St Petersburg, Russia, talks to composer Marcus Tristan Heathcock You are an English composer living in St Petersburg. How did...
Feature Review – Strauss Song Series at Wigmore Hall
A selection from Richard Strauss’s Lieder together with song-settings by Bridge, Debussy, Gurney, Poulenc, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky Rebecca Bottone, Rachel Nicholls & Elizabeth Watts (sopranos) Daniel Norman & Nathan Vale...
Feature Obituary – Carlo Felice Cillario
In 1964 Franco Zeffirelli’s new production of Tosca (which was only retired in 2006) opened at Covent Garden, with Maria Callas as the heroine and Tito Gobbi as Scarpia. In...
Creating the Right Atmosphere: Evelino Pidò
The Italian maestro returning to Covent Garden to conduct La Cenerentola talks to Mansel Stimpson… Evelino Pidò who was born in Turin is one of those conductors whose gifts enable...
Feature CD Review – London Philharmonic Orchestra 75th-Anniversary
Recordings made by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and here issued by the Orchestra to celebrate its 75th-anniversary ”The London Philharmonic Orchestra made its first recordings on 10 October 1932, just...
40 Years On: Gwynne Howell
The latest appearance by the Welsh bass is as Titurel in Wagner’s Parsifal. Mansel Stimpson talks to him… When I meet the veteran bass Gwynne Howell, he is not only...
An Interview with Roger Smalley
This interview took place in June 2007 in Perth, Western Australia, just before Australian composer and pianist Roger Smalley’s departure for Sydney, where he now resides. Smalley, a major figure...
Petr Eben – A Tribute
David Wordsworth remembers the composer Petr Eben who died in Prague on 24 October 2007 at the age of 78… Despite the best efforts of the regime that persecuted, frustrated...
Skip to content