January CD Roundup
The Britten centenary is marked this month by a couple of new discs of his cello music. Around Britten on Signum Classics features cellist Matthew Barley and includes Britten’s Third Suite for Cello,…
On Moving to Mac
My home office setup. The computer is that elegant little box to the right of my main monitor. Many composers I talk to, even if they use a Windows PC,…
Preview of 2013
Happy New Year to you all! If you’re feeling over-indulged on ample sufficiencies of turkey, Christmas pud and mince pies, here’s a repast of a different sort: my preview of…
Record of the Month: A European Odyssey
If you buy one CD set this month or, for that matter, over the next twelve, you should consider A European Odyssey, A remarkable musical adventure with the London Schubert Players. Released…
Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco
Mortuos plango, I mourn the dead. Though annus horribilis is, perhaps, an exaggeration, the grim reaper has done his work unusually well in 2012. This has especially been the case…
November CD Roundup
If you like your music cerebral and challenging then you should check-out Richard Barrett’s bewitching new CD Dark Matter. It features the ensembles ELISION and CIKADA conducted by Christian Eggen with…
Self-publishing
That the internet has revolutionized the consumption of recorded music is a truism. Artists can self-publish via their own websites or they may circumvent record labels by going directly to…
Retorica Interview
Photo: Retorica Christian Morris talks to Harriet Mackenzie and Philippa Mo, who have just released their debut-disk 'English Violin Duos' on NMC. Tell us a little about your background before…
November Concert Diary
I've just updated CT's concert diary for November. A few things, however, deserve special mention. The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the UK's largest specialising in this genre, runs from Friday 16th-Sunday 25th November.…
Fifty Shades of Grim. October CD Roundup.
I noticed with a sense of both amusement and nausea yesterday that EMI, a label that I used to follow avidly, has stooped to releasing Fifty Shades of Grey, The Classical Album.…
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