Jack Sheen / ddmmyy Concert Series Interview
Jack Sheen Christian Morris talks to Jack Sheen, composer, conductor and co-founder of the ddmmyy concert series. How did you come to found the ddmmyy series? I wasn't actually involved…
Martin Smolka: Poema De Balcones
The music of Czech composer Martin Smolka was unfamiliar to me until I came across this new disk of his choral works on Wergo. The programme contains his Poema De Balcones; Walden, The Distiller…
April Events: Maxwell Davies, Open Up Music, Festivals and Premieres
There is something poignant about a world premiere of a composer who is no longer with us. Such is the case with the first performance of Peter Maxwell Davies’s Piano Sonata No.…
Peter Maxwell Davies (1934–2016)
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies was one of a handful of composers truly to have dominated British cultural life, also winning a worldwide reputation with his substantial body of work. Sometimes…
Grace Williams: Missa Cambrensis Review
In my teens I spent many a happy hour digging around in the Welsh Music Information Centre, a repository for scores and recordings of mostly recently written music from the…
March Concert Diary: Three Festivals and a CoMA
The Bangor Music Festival (1st–6th March) begins with a St. David’s Day choral extravaganza performed by Côr Glanaethwy. The programme includes music by a number of living composers, including Karl Jenkins, Gareth…
Peter Maxwell-Davies: Brass Chamber Music, The Wallace Collection, Nimbus NI5936
From his exuberant Opus 1, the Sonata for Solo Trumpet written for Elgar Howarth, music for brass has been an important part of the Maxwell Davies catalogue. This disk provides a useful…
Is there really a crisis at ENO?
The shenanigans at English National Opera would seem to be an obvious vindication of Micawber's advice regarding fiscal contentedness. We are entitled to ask, however: to what extent should an arts organisation…
Hélène Grimaud ‘Water’ and other February CD releases
I don’t often like themed collections of music, especially where they emphasise those qualities – 50 relaxing classics! The Only Classical Chillout Album You'll Ever Need! – that seem to require that…
February Concert Diary
A very happy birthday to Henri Dutilleux, that other great post-war French composer, who would have been 100 on Friday. If you are in Paris for his anniversaire there will be a discussion…
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