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- January
2009
- Themed
Releases: Naxos Historical Great Opera Recordings now complete
-
Masterwork
Index: Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique - 30 reviews of 25 recordings
- Chandos
Records 30th Anniversary
by Rob Barnett
- An
interview with Brian and Ralph Couzens (Chandos)
by Rob Barnett
- Chandos
Records - Press Release
- Chandos
Records - A Short History
January 2009 - Download
Roundup Brian Wilson
-
WILLIAM
WORDSWORTH (1908-1988) by PAUL CONWAY
-
- December
2008
- Bruckner's
Eighth Symphony - A personal reflection by Patrick Waller (updated)
- Musicweb's
Recordings of the Year
Christmas
Discs
Download
Roundup - Brian Wilson
Christmas
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Brian
Wilson
- Placido Domingo
protégée, American soprano Elizabeth
Andrews Roberts in interview with Marlene Hall
- Richard Hickox dies at
the age of 60 - Chandos Press release
- MusicWeb reviewer Em Marshall has accepted chairmanship of the Ralph Vaughan
Williams Society - see News Release
- November
2008
-
New
works by Gareth Glyn an update by John France
Ivor
Gurney and Marion Scott by Pamela Blevins
Richard
Stoker - 70th Birthday Celebrations - 8 November 2008
MusicWeb
Reviewers Log: September-November 2008: Patrick
C Waller
DOWNLOAD
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"The
Formula of Love": Göran Forsling meets the Estonian composer
Mari Vihmand after the premiere of her first full-length opera
- October
2008
The Youth Orchestra in Reverse by
Arthur Butterworth
Ian Venables: A Kiss Op.15 - a setting of a poem by Thomas Hardy by
John France
Howard
Blake at 70 - interview with Bob Briggs
WHOM
THE GODS LOVE -
Richard Farrell by
Peter Mechen
The
Music of Kalevi Aho By
Dan Morgan (with multiple sound samples)
- September
2008
- Richard
Beattie Davis - an obituary by Gillian Wimbourne
Vernon
'Tod' Handley 1930-2008 - an obituary by Garry Humphreys
See also
Richard Adams interviews Vernon Handley
Links
to all Vernon Handley reviews on MusicWeb
KING
ARTHUR - Arthur Butterworth at 85 by Lynne Walker
Stanford
and the Piano by Christopher Howell
Harmonia
Mundi Gold Series: First Issue - an overview by Rob Barnett
- August 2008
-
Recently
in the blogs by David Barker
Give
Early Music a Try:
John Browne and the Eton Choirbook by
Brian Wilson
Symphonies
of Malcolm Arnold - Review Index by Paul Serotsky
The
Brass Band in Britain -
Arthur Butterworth -
July 2008
Horace
Dann (1896-1958) by Philip Scowcroft
Graham
Peel: Ettrick –a song for baritone by John France
A
little more on Graham Peel by
Christopher Howell
Nikolai
Miaskovsky - A review index by Rob Barnett
- DIGITAL
BACH EDITION FOR IPOD
by Kirk McElhearn
Reviewer’s
Log July/August 2008 - Patrick
C Waller
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- July 2008
-
Downloads
of Bach’s Orchestral Music:
A Survey
Brian Wilson
- Donald
Harris Composer,
Teacher & Musicologist -John France
Growing
Up American in Paris by Donald Harris
Nadia
Boulanger - Pierre Boulez - Max Deutsch - Andre Jolivet - Henri Dutilleux
- Darius
Milhaud - Francis Poulenc - Georges Auric
Recently
in the blogs by David Barker
Michael
Herman: British
Orchestral Music 1800-1900 - discography
See also: British
and Commonwealth symphonies - discography
British
and Commonwealth Concertos - discography
- June
2008
-
Richard
Noble (1930-2008) - An obituary by Arthur Butterworth
Flying-Crooked:
Four Songs by Ian Venables
by John France
Recently
in the blogs by David Barker
Nadia
Boulanger as Teacher
by
Lennox Berkeley
CARLA
GAVAZZI (1913-2008)
Reviewer’s
Log: May/June 2008: Patrick C Waller
Karen
Geoghegan interviewed
by Carla Rees
Now
Complete with over 700 images: The
Collector’s Guide to Gramophone Company Record Labels 1898 - 1925 by Howard
Friedman
- May
2008
-
Reviewer’s
Log: May/June 2008: Patrick C Waller
Recently
in the blogs by David Barker
Everyman
and His Music Percy
Scholes (1877-1958)
Karen
Geoghegan interviewed
by Carla Rees
Christian
Lindberg in conversation with Chris Thomas
Iris
Loveridge -
British Pianist by Rob Barnett
Reviewer’s
Log: April 2008: Robert Hugill
-
Bruckner's
9th Symphony - The unfinished Finale by Aart van der Wal
Richard
Stoker and Nadia Boulanger by John France
Youth
-
the Golden Age of Music by
Arthur Butterworth
- April 2008
-
Richard
Stoker and Nadia Boulanger by John France
Youth
-
the Golden Age of Music by
Arthur Butterworth
Recently in the blogs by David Barker
April
Fools
- did you miss them?
A
fond farewell to Dunelm Records (as we know it) by Patrick C Waller
Reviewers
Log: March/April 2008: Patrick C Waller
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The
orchestral conductor - a useless drone?
by Arthur Butterworth
Das Land
Ohne Musik An extensive addition by Martin Walker
- March 2008
- ALUN
HODDINOTT
(11 August 1929 - 12 March 2008)
Giya
KANCHELI
(b. 1935) profile by Julie Williams
Severn
Bridge Variations (1966): a joint effort
by John France
An
interview with the German baritone Michael Volle by Jim Pritchard
In Preparation:
The
Collector’s Guide to Gramophone Company Record Labels 1898 - 1925 by Howard
Friedman
This will take a long time to complete so you can follow the work as it progresses
here
- February
2008
- Gareth
Glyn:
Anglesey Composer A first exploration of some of his music by
John France
MAKING
IT BETTER: BRITISH
WIND MUSIC 1981-2008 A personal look at twenty-seven years of repertoire development
by TIMOTHY REYNISH
An
interview with the Danish bass Stephen Milling by Jim Pritchard
Composers’
originals amended by conductors by
Arthur Butterworth
MusicWeb
Reviewer’s log:
January/February 2008 Reviewer: Patrick C Waller
Recently
in the Blogs by David J Barker
- January
2008
-
Composers’
originals amended by conductors by
Arthur Butterworth
MusicWeb
Reviewer’s log:
January/February 2008 Reviewer: Patrick C Waller
Recently
in the Blogs by David J Barker
Unveiling
of Holst statue April 4th - Press release from Cheltenham Civic Society
New
Projects for the New Year by David J Barker
The
Clarinet Trio of John Ireland by
Stephen Fox
Jottings
on Eric Fogg’s Sea Sheen by John France
GYORGY
LIGETI (1923-2006)
by Julie Williams
JUDITH
WEIR by Julie
Williams
Youthful
Prodigy or Late Developer? By Arthur Butterworth
Robert
Hugill's Reviewer's Log
Complete
Book on-line: Erik
Chisholm: The Operas of Janáček First published 1971;
Now available only in this online version produced for the Erik Chisholm
Trust by MusicWeb International
- DECEMBER
2007
-
Sir
Edward ELGAR (1857–1934)
The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38
Some personal observations on recordings of the work by John Quinn
Deutsche
Grammophon Launches Download Site by Kevin Sutton
Reviewer’s
log: December 2007; Reviewer: Patrick C Waller
- NOVEMBER
2007
-
A Tribute To Nina Milkina by Christopher Howell on the first
anniversary of her death
Christmas
Music Beyond The Carols by David Barker
Arthur
BUTTERWORTH in conversation with Christopher Thomas
British
and Commonwealth Concertos from the Nineteenth Century to the present
- A discography of CDs and LPs by Michael Herman.
Henryk
GORECKI: profile by Julie Williams
Reviewer's
log: Patrick Waller
Online
Music pages compiled by
David Barker: a guide to sites offering digital music for downloading and
streaming, some of it FREE!
Olivier
MESSIAEN (1908–1992)
a
profile by Julie Williams
Sofia
GUBAIDULINA (b. 1931)
a profile by Julie Williams
The
Real Horn - a new enlightenment? by Arthur
Butterworth
-
- OCTOBER 2007
Olivier MESSIAEN (1908–1992)
a
profile by Julie Williams
Sofia
GUBAIDULINA (b. 1931)
a profile by Julie Williams
The
Real Horn - a new enlightenment? by Arthur
Butterworth
Naxos
Historical Great Violinists themed review page completed
Elizabeth
Maconchy DBE (1907-1994): Some biographical and musical notes by
her daughter Nicola LeFanu.
A
postcript on the Joyce Hatto affair - Ates Orga
Trevor
Hold (1939-2004) - A catalogue of compositions by Lewis Foreman
Antal
Dorati – Recording Legend by
Tony Flynn
Jacqueline
du Pré – twenty years on Anne
Ozorio talks to Christopher Nupen
Notes
on Iain Hamilton’s ‘The Bermudas’ A Forgotten Half Century
John France
Three
emigrés: Gál, Gerhard and Goldschmidt
2007 update added by Guy Rickards
Reviewer's
Log: Patrick Waller
SEPTEMBER 2007
- Reviewer's
Log: Patrick Waller
Chandos
Film Music - a new Themed Review page compiled
by David Barker
Interview
on the Chandos Film Music Series with conductor Rumon Gamba by Ian
Lace
The
Music of MAURICE JACOBSON by
Michael and Julian Jacobson
In
Touch with Music: an interview with Bjarte Engeset by Göran
Forsling
Luciano
Pavarotti in Memoriam: a tribute by Göran Forsling
Luciano
Pavarotti : a brief appreciation by Evan Dickerson
Malcolm
Arnold Discography updated
British
& Commonwealth Symphonies (from the 19th century to the present) -
A Discography of CDs & LPs © 2007 Michael Herman [corrected
and updated 9-9-07]
- AUGUST 2007
- British
and Commonwealth Symphonies (from the 19th century to the present)
- A Discography of CDs & LPs © 2007 Michael Herman
Yma
Sumac –
The Allure of the Mysterious
by Nicholas E. Limansky
Dominy
Clements Interview with the Basso Moderno Duo
The
importance of not to always being yourself: Tenor James Gilchrist
talks to Anne Ozorio (AO)
Queen
of the Nurses and Mothers: an interview with Catherine Wyn-Rogers
(JPr)
There
is no passaggio: Finnish bass-baritone Juha Uusitalo talks
to Bill Kenny about musical training, singing and his personal philosophy
(BK)
-
- JULY 2007
-
Giuseppe
VERDI (1813-1901) A conspectus of his life and a review of the audio and
video recordings of his works. Fourth and Final part by Robert Farr
Copyright and the Liberation of Music by Dr Stephen Hall
Kenneth
Hesketh Interview with Christopher Thomas - 2007
Some
random jottings about William Alwyn's Elizabethan Dances by John France
MusicWeb
Reviewer's Log - Robert Hugill
IN
SEARCH OF MIKLÓS RÓZSA by Anastasia Khitruk
- JUNE 2007
- Janáček’s
Glagolitic Mass by
John L Wright
MIASKOVSKY
RIDES AGAIN …. COURTESY OF THE ALTO LABEL
Sir Patrick Spens -
a Rediscovered Work by Herbert Howells
by John France
Burkhard
Schmilgun:
Talking to a musical treasure-hunter by Ilja Nieuwland
Classical
Podcasts by David J Barker
MusicWeb
Reviewer's Log May 2007: Patrick C Waller
Vaughan
Williams review index pages - now up to date; next stop Malcolm
Arnold
World
Orchestra pages now with USA section completed
- May
2007
-
Elgar
Symphony 2
by Arthur Butterworth
Mahler
Symphony No 6 - an update of Tony Duggan's survey of recordings
Some
Random Jottings about Montague Phillips’ "Dance Revels."
by John
France
-
- April 2007
-
MusicWeb
Reviewer’s Log: April 2007 - Robert Hugill
Unusual
instruments in the orchestra by Arthur
Butterworth
Interview
with Christian DesJardins
- author of Inside Film Music – Composers Speak
by Ian Lace
Themed
Review page: Beniamino Gigli - the first from the Naxos Historical
label
Elgar
and Empire by Ian Lace (originally published in The Elgar Society Journal
in 1997)
Living
with Extreme Instruments #008,
the Subcontrabass Flute - Dominy Clements
MusicWeb
Reviewer’s Log: April 2007 -
Patrick C Waller
-
-
- March 2007
-
Memories
of a Quiet Magician - Nathan
Milstein in Portrait by Anne Ozorio
THE
ROGER WRIGHT INTERVIEW Interviewer:
Ian Lace. Roger Wright is Controller BBC Radio 3
"An
echo inside a shadow wrapped in cellophane" An
appreciation of Ferneyhough’s Shadowtime - Anne Ozorio
Appreciating
Sibeliuss Luonnotar Op. 70 by
Anne Ozorio
MusicWeb
Reviewer’s Log: March 2007 Reviewer: Patrick C Waller
Promenade
Concert Novelties 1907 by John France
MusicWeb
Reviewer’s Log: February 2007 Reviewer: Robert Hugill
- February
2007
-
Link
to a list of "Joyce Hatto" recordings reviewed on MusicWeb International
Joyce
Hatto – Some thoughts, some questions and a lot of letters
by Christopher Howell
Debussy’s
Pelléas
et Mélisande A Recording Overview by
Jeffrey Sarver
The
Hatto Affair:
why it should concern us all by
Evan Dickerson
Hatto
- the greatest pianist(s) that now everyone has heard of! by Len
Mullenger
Saga
Remembered by Robin O'Connor
Getting
beyond his station in life? by Arthur Butterworth
A
Conductor with panache: José Serebrier speaks to Anne
Ozorio (AO)
MusicWeb
Reviewer’s Log: February
2007 Reviewer: Patrick C Waller
Index
to Vaughan Williams reviews on MusicWeb
Orchestra
pages update - Europe page now available and other pages substantially
expanded
Result
of the MusicWeb Christmas Challenge
Irvine
Arditti
interviewed by Anne Ozorio
Marion
Scott and the Society of Women Musicians by Pamela Blevins
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-
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January
2007
-
Index
to Vaughan-Williams reviews on MusicWeb
Orchestra
pages update - Europe page now available and other pages substantially
expanded
Irvine
Arditti
interviewed by Anne Ozorio
Marion
Scott and the Society of Women Musicians by Pamela Blevins
Julius
Harrison & Bredon Hill by John France
Towers
of Babel? - Arthur Butterworth writes
MusicWeb
Reviewer’s Log:
January 2007 Reviewer:
Patrick C Waller
MusicWeb
Reviewer’s Log:
January 2007 Reviewer:
Robert Hugill
Giuseppe
VERDI
(1813-1901) A conspectus of his life and a review of the audio and video recordings
of his works by Robert Farr. PART
3: Verdi’s middle period: The eight operas from Stiffelio (1850)
to Un ballo in Maschera (1859)
Great
Recordings of the Century - review
link pages revised and updated
- December
2006
- Two new
complete books on-line
Cannons
and Flowers - the memoirs of Georges Cziffra
The Music
goes Round and Around by Basil Tschaikov
Giuseppe VERDI
(1813-1901) A conspectus of his life and a review of the audio and video recordings
of his works by Robert Farr. PART
3: Verdi’s middle period: The eight operas from Stiffelio (1850)
to Un ballo in Maschera (1859)
-
SIR
MALCOLM ARNOLD (1921–2006) - First Hon. Vice-President of the UK Sibelius
Society - Edward Clarke
MusicWeb
Reviewer’s Log: December 2006 Reviewer:
Patrick C Waller
A
New Kind of Record Collection by Kevin Sutton
Zoran
Todorovich talks to Göran Forsling at the Staatsoper unter
den Linden
The
Flight of Jackie O - Creativity in Baroque Roles and Ornamentation
: An interview with Vivica Genaux by Michael Ellison
There
is no ‘passaggio’: Finnish bass-baritone Juha Uusitalo
talks to Bill Kenny about musical training, singing and his personal philosophy
World
Orchestras links pages - the
start of a Musicweb project by David Barker
- November
2006
-
Klaus
Heymann auf Naxos by
Randolph Magri-Overend
How
music works - an introduction to his new TV series by
Howard Goodall
Amelia
Farrugia – Driving Talent by
Randolph Magri-Overend
Rohan
de Saram on Berio and new musical horizons by
Anne Ozorio
World
Orchestras links pages - the start of a Musicweb project by David
Barker
Mad
about England’s music: English Music Festival - Em Marshall
Simone
Young: Twirling a Baton by Randolph Magri-Overend
Musical
Post-Codes - Regional Sounds
by Arthur Butterworth
Reviewer’s
Log: October-November 2006 Reviewer:
Patrick C Waller
Brain
Cramp: Last Thoughts (probably) On The Strange
Audio World Of Peter W. Belt (BK)
Giuseppe
VERDI (1813-1901) A conspectus of his life and a review of the
audio and video recordings of his works - Part 2 by Robert Farr
A
Beginners’ Guide to the Galaxy of Singers from the Past By
Göran Forsling and Jonathan Woolf
- October
2006
-
Brain
Cramp: Last Thoughts (probably) On The Strange
Audio World Of Peter W. Belt (BK)
Giuseppe
VERDI (1813-1901) A conspectus of his life and a review of the
audio and video recordings of his works - Part 2 by Robert Farr
Interview:
There is no passaggio: Finnish bass-baritone Juha Uusitalo
talks to Bill Kenny
Britten Discography now complete -
after six months work by David Barker and more than 1,000 new listings,
the updated discography of the works of Benjamin Britten is now complete.
It will also be updated on a regular basis with new releases
MusicWeb
Reviewer’s Log: July-September 2006 Reviewer:
Patrick C Waller
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Malcolm
Arnold - an Obituary by Rob Barnett
Sir
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006) A Greater Composer than Some Might Think
[DVD - Toward
the Unknown Region Malcolm
ARNOLD – A Story of Survival - A Film by Tony
PALMER]
- September
2006
Orchestral
colour in the 21st century - fashion in new sounds by
Arthur Butterworth
Interview:
There is no passaggio: Finnish bass-baritone Juha Uusitalo
talks to Bill Kenny
Britten Discography now complete -
after six months work by David Barker and more than 1,000 new listings,
the updated discography of the works of Benjamin Britten is now complete.
It will also be updated on a regular basis with new releases.
MusicWeb
Reviewer’s Log: July-September 2006 Reviewer:
Patrick C WallerA
Beginners’ Guide to the Galaxy of Singers from the Past By
Göran Forsling and Jonathan Woolf
The
BBC Proms 2006
by Chris Cope
Fallen
by the Wayside?
- Neglected Instruments by Arthur Butterworth
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- August 2006
- An
obituary of Michael Hurd by Geoffrey Peck
An
interview with Christopher Nupen
by Anne Ozorio
The
nature of music as a meaningful language …… Arthur Butterworth
Tributes
to the late Elisabeth Schwarzkopf by Göran Forsling and Anne
Ozorio
Further tribute
by Evan Dickerson
HOLST
– An Enigmatic Variation by
John France
Mahler
Symphony 5 by Tony Duggan - update
The
Solo Violin Music of Ivan Khandoshkin by
Anastasia Khitruk
- JULY 2006
-
Giuseppe
VERDI (1813-1901) A conspectus of his life and a review of the audio
and video recordings of his works - Robert Farr
An
Appreciation of the Hyperion Complete Schubert Song Edition
By John
Quinn and Patrick Waller
Joyce
Hatto (1928 -2006) Obituary
A
composer’s own most memorable performances - Arthur Butterworth
- June 2006
- Benjamin
Britten Discography
- update.
Parts one and two of this update have now been completed by David Barker
Two new themed release review
pages - Schubert
Lieder on Naxos and Bach
Collegium Japan on BIS
Never-to-be
forgotten concerts
Arthur Butterworth
Frank
Bridge
– Phantasie in F minor Centenary and Confusion - John France
György
Ligeti (1923-2006) - An Obituary Evan Dickerson
For
Classical Music - To iPOD or not to iPod? Ian Lace
A
SINGER AND HIS SONGS: HUBERT EISDELL by Charles A. Hooey
A
SINGER’S LIFE : Petra Lang talks to Jim Pritchard
THOUGHTS
ON ELGAR'S 149th BIRTHDAY - Arthur Butterworth
Needs
no handle to its name!-
Arthur Butterworth
BENJAMIN
FRANKEL: BMS Lecture-Recital given by Dimiti Kennaway
MusicWeb
Reviewer’s Log: June 2006 Reviewer: Patrick C Waller
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- May 2006
-
The
Global Concert Hall - Marc Bridle
EDITORIAL:
A Death Foretold - Marc Bridle
Marc
Bridle - An Appreciation - Len Mullenger, Melanie Eskenazi and Bill Kenny
Reviewer's
Log
- Robert Hugill - February 2006
- AM
I CAPABLE OF PLAYING THIS MUSIC? by Arthur Butterworth
ARTHUR
BUTTERWORTH’s Desert Island
Discs
Mahler
Symphony 4: an update of Tony Duggan's survey of available recordings
Reith Lectures - April
2006 - Barenboim A
universal language or a divisive art ? by Arthur Butterworth
MusicWeb
Reviewer’s Log: May 2006 Reviewer:
Patrick C Waller
- April 2006
- A
World without orchestras –
computers rampant?
Insidious
Decline - Arthur Butterworth fights a rear-guard action
MusicWeb
Reviewer’s Log: April 2006 Reviewer:
Patrick C Waller
Tony Duggan's
Synoptic Survey of the Mahler symphonies:
Mahler
symphony No. 3 - revised and updated
Plenty of the plain
by Arthur
Butterworth
A
Glass of Wine with the Flautist Rachel Smith
- John France
AGEING
AUDIENCES FOR CONCERT MUSIC by
Arthur Butterworth
On Seen and Heard
Michelangelo
Drawings: Closer to the Master reviewed by Alex Russell
- March 2006
- Plenty
of the plain by Arthur Butterworth
A
Glass of Wine with the Flautist Rachel Smith
- John France
AGEING
AUDIENCES FOR CONCERT MUSIC by
Arthur Butterworth
Domenico
SCARLATTI
(1685-1757)
The Complete Keyboard Sonatas Scott
Ross (harpsichord)[PCW] Ongoing
Review Review now complete
Richard Stoker, Janet Craxton & ‘Polemics’ by
John France
ROBERT
HUGILL - WEBLOG - December 2005 - January 2006
MusicWeb
Reviewer’s Log: March 2006 Reviewer:
Patrick C Waller
Mahler
Symphony No.2 - Tony Duggan Survey - revised March 06
Ronald
Finch (1920-1992): A
biographical outline by Averil Davies
- February
2006
- Ronald
Finch (1920-1992): A
biographical outline by Averil Davies
The
Mahler Symphonies
An update to the synoptic survey by Tony Duggan Symphony
No 1
An
Inexplicable Inspiration? by
Arthur Butterworth
Martinů
in Paris: A Synthesis of Musical Styles and Symbols By
Erik Anthony Entwistle (200 pages)
MusicWeb
Reviewer’s Log:
February 2006 Reviewer: Patrick C Waller
- January
2006
- JOYCE
HATTO by Ates Orga (illustrated)
Birgit
Nilsson: (1918-2005)
MALCOLM
ARNOLD IN CORNWALL by Phillip Hunt
MusicWeb
Reviewer’s Log:
January 2006 Reviewer:
Patrick C Waller
MICHAEL
NYMAN
talks to John Leeman about his opera Man and Boy: Dada
WEBLOG-
Robert Hugill
Adrian Smith: 1931-2005
- December
2005
- MICHAEL
NYMAN talks to John Leeman about his opera Man and Boy: Dada
Adrian Smith: 1931-2005 Contributions
from John
Quinn Paul
Serotsky Sir
Malcolm Arnold CBE Arthur
Butterworth MBE Matthew
Curtis Keith
Llewellyn Elaine
Carter Stuart
Marsden Marilyn and
Dick Myers David
Golightly Maggie
Cotton
MAURICE
JACOBSON (1896-1976) by Michael and Julian Jacobson
MusicWeb
Reviewer’s Log: December 2005 Reviewer:
Patrick C Waller
WEBLOG-
Robert Hugill
- November
2005
- CONCERT-PERFORMANCES
... THIRSTY WORK? by Arthur Butterworth
LAUNCH
OF RVW’S CANTATA WILLOW WOOD ON NAXOS attended by John France
MusicWeb
Reviewer’s Log:
November 2005 Reviewer:
Patrick C Waller
- October
2005
- CYRIL
SCOTT: A man whose time has come again? by Desmond Scott
RICHARD
ARNELL AT 88
- Susan Roberts
MusicWeb
Reviewer’s Log:
October 2005 Patrick
C Waller
Robert
Hugill Weblog -
Aug/sept 05
- September
2005
- Reviewer’s
Log: a
Summer Retrospect John Quinn
Inspiration
- "In The Air"? Arthur
Butterworth
A
Thumbnail Sketch of the Music of William Blezard Part 2 (The Piano Works)
John France
Philip
Cowlin (1920-2005)
MusicWeb Reviewer’s Log: September 2005 Reviewer:
Patrick C Waller
MUSICWEBLOG
July-August 2005 Reviewer:
Robert Hugill
UPDATE:
SEPTEMBER 2005 BRUCKNER
SYMPHONIES: AN INTRODUCTION AND REVIEW OF SELECTED RECORDINGS by Patrick
Waller and John Quinn
Hunting the Snark: More On
The Strange Audio World Of Peter W. Belt
- August
2005
- Graham
Fitkin - biography
A Thumbnail Sketch of the
Music of William Blezard
Part
1 John France
A
Greville Cooke Catalogue A
Preliminary Overview John France
First
Hyperion and now Chandos
MusicWeb
Listening Room upgrade
Read
This Facing North:
The Strange Audio World Of Peter W. Belt
MusicWeb Reviewer’s Log:
August 2005 Patrick Waller
- July 2005
- Towards
the Edinburgh Isolde: an in-depth interview with US soprano Christine
Brewer by David Harbin © July 2005 Sandra Radvanovsky
(soprano) interviewed by Bruce Hodges
Latest Programme Notes by Paul Serotsky
Jaroslav
Krombholc -
An Anniversary Remembrance by Alan Watkins
MusicWeb
Reviewer’s Log: June/July 2005 Reviewer:
Patrick C Waller
by Frank T. Manheim: The
Pace of Classical Music Reform Increases in the UK and the USA
MENDELSSOHN
The Complete Quartets - a comparative review by Michael Cookson: Pacifica
Quartet, Emerson Quartet, Henschel Quartet, Talich Quartet, Aurora
String Quartet, Bartholdy Quartet
George
Enescu:
a fiftieth anniversary commemoration through recordings
Part II: Enescu the performer: violinist, conductor and pianist
'How
do we compare honest chalk with good ripe Stilton exactly?' -
BBC Cardiff Singer Of The World
- June 2005
- DOES
COMMISSIONED MUSIC STAND A BETTER CHANCE OF A LONG CONCERT LIFE THAN MUSIC
WRITTEN WITHOUT A COMMISSION? ... ... Arthur Butterworth
SYMPHONY IN D,
OPUS 32 BY DONALD FRANCIS TOVEY:
A Record Producer’s Diary By Peter Shore
A
REVIEWER’S LOG – June 2005 - John Quinn
Rutland
Boughton: Reunion
Variations for Orchestra
- Paul Adrian Rooke
JOHN
WOOLDRIDGE
by Hugh Wooldridge
Respighi’s
Marie Victoire
edited
by Ian Lace
HELENA
KEAN and the Songs of RESPIGHI by Ian Lace
Carole
Farley – singer and champion of repertoire.
Interviewed by Anne Ozorio
View
from the audience by Frank T. Manheim: THE RELEVANCE
OF FUTURISM IN CLASSICAL MUSIC TODAY: WHY CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS STILL HAVE
TROUBLE EXCITING AUDIENCES
- May 2005
- George
ENESCU:
a fiftieth anniversary commemoration through recordings
Part I: Enescu the composer - Evan Dickerson
MusicWeb
Reviewers Log:
May 2005 Reviewer: Patrick C Waller
KENNETH
V. JONES
by Helen Davis
Murray
McLachlan reflects on the fruits of a private pilgrimage in
the life and music of JOHN WILLIAMSON
CLASSICAL
MUSIC - TOO ÉLITIST ?
Arthur
Butterworth
MusicWeb Reviewers Log: March 2005 Reviewer:
Patrick C Waller
Marc
Bridle reports on the forthcoming Proms Festival
Vernon
Handley
records BAX tone poems and Sinfonietta Lewis
Foreman
Tantrums
or Principles? Assessing the Muti Affair
by Bernard Jacobson
"The
tyrant at La Scala" - Lebrecht; "The monster of Milan." - Mellor;
Is it really so? Read Bernard's article from MusicWeb's Seen and Heard.
Bernard
Barrell 1919-2005
List
of Works
- April 2005
- Vernon
Handley
records BAX tone poems and Sinfonietta Lewis
Foreman
MusicWeb
Reviewer's Log:
April 2005 Reviewer: Patrick C Waller
Tantrums
or Principles? Assessing the Muti Affair
by Bernard Jacobson
"The
tyrant at La Scala" - Lebrecht; "The monster of Milan." - Mellor;
Is it really so? Read Bernard's article from MusicWeb's Seen and Heard.
Bernard
Barrell
1919-2005 List
of Works
- March
2005
- Groundbreaking
production of Harry Partch's Oedipus takes place at Monclair State
University
MusicWeb Reviewer’s Log: March
2005 Reviewer:
Patrick C Waller
- Cyril
Scott as Composer-Pianist and Author, with some Recent Perspectives
by Leslie De'Ath (Word file)
- February
2005
- A
COMPOSER'S PROGRESS - OR RECESSION? by
Arthur Butterworth
Music
from the Silver Age – NIKOLAY and ALEXANDER CHEREPNIN by
Gregor Tassie
'Reminiscences'
by Bill Harris
First
Part: " A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Fool"
Second Part: "Some thoughts
on Opera"
FELIX
APRAHAMIAN
(1914 -
2005): A personal memoir - John Leeman
Ivor
Gurney’s Friends:
Ethel Voynich — ‘E. L. V.’ Revolutionary, Novelist, Translator,
Composer by Pamela Blevins
Ruth
Gipps and Sir Arthur Bliss by
Pamela Blevins
Gregor Tassie
interviews Mariss Jansons - 4 September 2001
"Mr. Delius Discourses on His Music to
'Hassan'" A report from Marion Scott Christian Science
Monitor Saturday, October 27, 1923
ROY
DOUGLAS by John Walton
BRUCKNER
SYMPHONIES: AN INTRODUCTION AND REVIEW OF SELECTED RECORDINGS by Patrick
Waller and John Quinn
-
- January 2005
- 'Crisis'
in Contemporary Music? What Crisis? THE
HEART OF THE MATTER by David F Golightly
Respighi’s
Sunken Bell
- (La Campana sommersa) by
Ian Lace
On
the Humanity of Music and Musicians: the new unacknowledged
legislators by
Marc Bridle
MusicWeb
Reviewer’s Log: January 2005 Reviewer:
Patrick C Waller
- December
2004
-
MUSICWEB
RECORDINGS OF THE YEAR 2004
Dialup users
SEEN&HEARD
CONCERT OF THE YEAR 2004 MusicWeb
Reviewer’s Log: October-December 2004 Reviewer:
Patrick C Waller
- November
2004
- HISTORY
OF MUSIC 3.
Approaching the Baroque era
HISTORY
OF MUSIC 4.
Early American Music (1620-1800)
HISTORY
OF MUSIC AMERICAN MUSIC OF THE NINETEEN CENTURY Dr David C F Wright
ALGERNON ASHTON - THE CASE FOR REVIVAL by Harold Truscott
BRUCKNER’S
EIGHTH SYMPHONY Personal
reflections on a favourite work and some key recordings by
Patrick C Waller
- SHOULD
COMPOSERS TELL ?
by Arthur Butterworth
RALPH
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
by
Em Marshall
Sally
Beamish Interviewed by Christopher Thomas 2004
- October
2004
- REVERSE
TRANSCRIPTION - a matter of black and white?- by Arthur Butterworth
The
Trio in G Minor for Clarinet, Bassoon and Piano by WILLIAM YEATES HURLSTONE
A
Critical Reassessment by Richard J Moore
GERARD
FRANCIS COBB (1838-1904) by
David Mackie
- September
2004
- Why
"classical" classical music will never die: the artistry and
psychology of courtly music from Mozart and Haydn’s time Frank Manheim
- Kenneth
Leighton (1929-88)
- August
2004
- THE
MUSIC OF ALGERNON ASHTON
(1859-1937) By Rutland Boughton
Interview
with Ashley Wass by
Colin Clarke
Knight
Foundation Administers Tough Love to American Symphony Orchestras to Encourage
Building of New Audiences by Frank Manheim
ERIC
GRAEBNER A brief introduction
by Dr David C F Wright
JEFFREY
LEWIS
A brief introduction by
Dr David C F Wright
- July
2004
- CARLOS
KLEIBER
(1930-2004)
"Has
the time come to set Mozart aside and let a new generation discover him?"
Hans-Theo Wohlfahrt on Glyndebourne's
new Magic Flute.
WHAT
IS CLASSICAL MUSIC?
WHO LISTENS TO IT? Vignettes from the American scene Frank T. Manheim
PERCY YOUNG - 1912-2004
Obituary by Philip Scowcroft
HISTORY OF MUSIC Part 2 Music of the Renaissance and Reformation Periods
Dr David C F Wright
Georges
Charles GOUNOD
(1818-1893) Faust
- an opera in five acts - Faust on record; a look back and into the future
- June
2004
- A
NEW LOOK for Seen and Heard
ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK by
Dr David
C. F. Wright
THEY
DON'T MAKE THEM LIKE THAT ANY MORE -
- - Arthur Butterworth
Adriano
at 60 - interviewed by Ian Lace
Obituary
for DENIS APIVOR born
April 14 1916; died May 27 2004. Mark
Marrington
- May
2004
- CONSTANT
LAMBERT:
Humphrey Searle talks to David Wright (1965)
MALCOLM
ARNOLD David C F Wright
- April
2004
- Tony
Banks in interview with Christopher Thomas,
March 2004
Seven: A Suite for Orchestra
THE
CRITICS’ PRIME CONCERN ---- Arthur Butterworth
RICHARD
STOKER
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