June Festivals and Concerts
Several big festivals to look forward to next month. In Amsterdam the Holland Festival (3–25 June) contains a mixture of theatre, dance, music, visual arts and film. There is plenty of new…
An Eventful Morning in East London: 21st Century Violin Concertos
Harriet Mackenzie (violin), Retorica, English Symphony Orchestra, English String Orchestra, Kenneth Woods (conductor). Nimbus NI 6295. Violinist Harriet Mackenzie and conductor Kenneth Woods have both made appearances on this blog before.…
Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards
The Royal Philharmonic Society announced their music awards yesterday evening at The Brewery in the City of London. The awards celebrate live music-making and recognise outstanding musical achievement in the UK during…
David Lang’s Symphony for 1,000 Broken Instruments
In Philadelphia, a project to reanimate over 1,000 broken instruments owned by the school district is reaching its latter stages. The project is the brainchild of Robert Blackson, Director of…
Riviera Recuerdos: new work for flute and piano
A new work for flute and piano. Tuneful, accessible but also a little bit dark. Available only at 8notes.com.
BBC Proms including fewer world premieres than ever?
Tickets for the BBC Proms go on sale at 9am on Saturday 13th May. The full programme is available, here. If you wish to view the living composers represented, click on this…
PRS Foundation secures funding from European Union
PRS has just announced that it has secured funding of €200,000 from the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. The money will be used to run its European Keychange programme to…
May Contemporary Music Festivals
May begins with a BBC Total Immersion Day dedicated to the music of Edgard Varèse at Barbican on 6th. There will be a talk at 12pm, a concert of ensemble musical 2pm, a…
Album Releases
As well as the Rhona Clarke (see my previous blog post, below) other recent releases include, on Wergo, Tun Tu, a disk of electroacoustic music by Chinese composer Sing Wang; Wechselspiele, vocal…
Rhona Clarke: A Different Game
Piano Trios 2, 3 and 4 (‘A Different Game’); Gleann Da Lough (solo piano), Con Coro (violin, cello and tape), In Umbra (solo cello). The Fidelio Trio, Métier msv 28561.…
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