UK premières begin next month with a new work by Ben Comeau, winner of the Cambridge University Composers’ Workshop, which will be playedby the Britten Sinfonia at Wigmore Hall on 4th.…
The Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival (27th February–1st March) celebrates its 10th anniversary at the end of February. The theme this year, is ‘Biomusic’. Professor Eduardo Miranda, Professor in Computer Music at…
Also on Wergo (see my previous post) is Japanese composer Keiko Harada’s recent disk, F-fragmentsfeaturing solo piano, accordion and duet of the same. F-Fragments, the work that lends the disk its name…
Adriana Hölszky: Wie ein gläsernes Meer, mit Feuer gemischt. Works for Organ. Wergo WER 67892. There are some fine recent disks on the German label Wergo. If you are not familiar…
I don’t know about you, but I’m always relieved when the Christmas season comes to an end. The Christmas tree, such an attractive sight at the beginning of December, is,…
Many thanks to the Choir of St. James's Parish Church and conductor Robin Kimber for their performance of my new carol. A recording can be found at the 'Read more' link,…
A morality tale with apologies to Mahler and Charles Dickens. Merry Christmas to all CT members! MAHLER'S GHOST Mahler was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever…
My new carol, Sing We to this Merry Company, will be premièred by the choir of St. James's Church, Sussex Gardens at 6pm on 21st December as part of their candlelit Festival of Nine…
Though especially associated with early music, I cannot let today pass without lamenting the loss of Christopher Hogwood, one of our finest conductors. For me he was the man who…
If you are in Scotland today and are suffering from post referendum exhaustion you can cheer yourself up with the thought of the imminent arrival of Sound, Scotland’s festival of new…