January CD Roundup: Ancient Greece, Musical Inspirations
Many years ago I visited the astonishing ruins at Delphi on the Greek Peloponnese. At the end of the visit I went tiredly round the museum, looking at the many…
Bingley Grammar School charges pupils for GCSE music
It has been reported that Bingley Grammar School charges children £5 per week to take GCSE music lessons after school. The decision was described by the Incoporated Society of Musicians as ‘shocking…
Britain’s Creative Leaders Urge May to Keep Freedom of Movement
Presumably when Matt Hancock, the new UK Culture Secretary, compared the creative industries to a woolly mammoth on Tuesday, he meant ‘big’ and and not muddle-minded. We can only hope he is…
Department for Exiting the EU releases Creative Industries Sector Report
The Government has released its Creative Industries Report prepared by the Department for Exiting the EU. You can read it here. The opening paragraph makes it clear that this is not…
Preview of 2018
After writing the C:T review of 2017, I found myself reflecting on the things that were predicted to happen in 2017 but didn’t. Chief among these was that a wave…
‘The Silver Stars at Play’: Contemporary Christmas Carols Review
'The Silver Stars at Play' from Primae Facie Records features 23 world premiere carol recordings. At over 70 minutes it is a generous programme, with a cross-section of both significant and lesser-known…
November CD Roundup
On Nimbus Kol Nidrei: Elegy for Pamela contains string quartets commissioned to celebrate the life of chamber music educator Pamela Majaro. It opens with the Cavatina from Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 13…
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (1962–2017)
Photo: Pavel Antonov Sad news, with the death yesterday of the great Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Whilst not a great exponent of contemporary music, he was known for his…
Muhly’s Marnie opens to mixed reviews
A selection of reviews from the opening of Nico Muhly’s Marnie, premiered at ENO last Saturday. Muhly’s second opera for the company, it is based upon either or both the 1964…
Contemporary Music Front and Centre over Christmas
The Spitalfields Winter Festival runs from 2nd to 9th December. Artistic Curator André de Ridder explains that this year the focus is on ‘making each event, each evening a festival in its…
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