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All Ears
When the Barbican Hall reopened its doors last weekend with concerts by the City of London Sinfonia and the London Symphony Orchestra, the eyes and ears of the audience will...
Frank Braley – Eurostar Debut
Notable French musicians performing at the South Bank (and St. John’s) – that’s the concept behind the six-concert Harmoniques Festival presented by harmonia mundi uk, the distributor of numerous, independent...
Who Is Afraid of the Present?
A problem concerning many of the best German conductors over the last half-century has been that few of them can regularly be heard away from their bases. Hans Rosbaud, Ernest...
“Soft sadness and a lot of humour”
If you’ve never thought about the Ukraine (“Where is your country, exactly?” is a question Ukrainians are often asked, they tell me), what you need to know for the purposes...
Music of Today 2001/02
James MacMillan – Artistic Director Martyn Brabbins – Series Conductor Thursday 4 October 2001 Alfred Schnittke: Septet; Concerto Grosso No.6 “The reason I programme Schnittke so much is that he...
Required Rehandling – an interview with Alexander Goehr
Three highly significant British composers were born within two years of each other in the 1930s – Alexander Goehr (in Berlin in 1932), Peter Maxwell Davies and Harrison Birtwistle (both...
Out of Light – BBC Proms Preview
OUT OF LIGHT was completed in July of this year, and commissioned for the BBC National Orchestra of Wales for premiere at the 2001 Proms. Described as a symphonic poem...
Gerald Finzi (1901-56)
Though some two orchestral works, the wonderful Clarinet and Cello Concertos, have crept, or are starting to creep into the repertoire, the essence of Gerald Finzi can be found most...
Late Night Lambert – Proms Preview
This year’s Proms season celebrates the centenaries of two significant British composers – Edmund Rubbra and Gerald Finzi. Just four years younger was another interesting English voice, that of Constant...
Visions of Eternity
Whilst music and Christianity seem to have been hand-in-hand since the very birth of the art form - in Western civilisation towards the end of the Dark Ages - it...
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