ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS OF GENERAL INTEREST
Comments and responses to Articles particularly welcomed
Rafael Wallfisch at 60
Launch of Somm CD series Vivat Brahms !
Editorial de Musica Espanola (Agustin Maruri's label EMEC)
Reviewing sound recordings in 2013
Charlton Fridays 2013
The Enchanted Island on SkyArts2
Composers rediscovered (Gaito & Waghalter)
5X8 String Quartets in 3 London venues
CHAMBER ENSEMBLE CONTEXTS STUDY-DAY AT THE INSTITUTE OF MUSICAL RESEARCH
Three string quartets at Kings Place
Multi-keyboard Lecture Recital Series (Elena Vorotko)
Royal Academy of Music Teaching Events (Harp, Choir, Brass and Keyboards & Kirschlager master class)
Martijn Padding at RAM
Chamber Studio Master Class (Ralph Kirschbaum)
Music up Close (new course at Conway Hall)
Signum at Fifteen 1997-2012
String Quartet Recital & Ann Murray Masterclass (Royal Academy of Music Oct 2012)
Light-weight videos from EuroArts
Surtitles for Youth Opera? (Bartered Bride & A Night in the Chinese Opera)
The Paraorchestra at Paralympics 2012
Sammoutis from Cyprus
Monthly CD releases (Codaex)
Music in London (John Amis)
Accordion Teaching at the Royal Academy of Music Accordion Department
Debussy’s Early Chamber Music (Research Event, Royal Academy of Music)
THE STORY OF NAXOS Nicolas Soames
Menno van Delft at RCM
Harps Lecture & Accordion Showcase (Royal Academy of Music)
An afternoon at Trinity Laban - Piano Showcase and Italian Baroque masterclass
Chamber Studio & Conway Hall Sundays - April 2012
18 C English recorders (Peter Holtslag with Elizabeth Kenny at RAM)
Chamber Studio Master Classes
Thoresen on 2L
Who's my Bottom - Christophe Gillett [BOOK REVIEW]
Dvorák The Jakobín (BBC concert performance & CD)
clashing events at RAM
codaex releases for January 2012
New Note for 2012: New Year cellists: Perényi, Altstaedt & Gabetta
Virtual Haydn (Tom Beghin & colleagues)
Ferenc Rados - chamber music master class at Kings Place
Bob Briggs - obituary
Red Priest Recorders Master Class
Teaching events at RAM
Colin Booth Did Bach Really Mean That ?
Performing Without Music (Szram & Wissam Boustany)
Viola Master Class (Garth Knox)
indésensrecords (Enescu, Bruch & Weingartner)
Robert Levin - keyboards master class at Guildhall School
Cyprien Katsaris
passing through London
Capella Savaria - a versatile early music orchestra
Darbar 2011 on Sky Arts 2
Magnatune downloads site (JSBach & 17C Italian music)
Bernard Greenhouse - cello master class
Peter Sykes - Clavichordist, Harpsichordist & Organist extraordinaire
Text to intensify instrumental musical expression (GSMD research meeting)
Dux in May (Polish composers and performers)
Early music - Byrd, Telemann & baroque music of the British Isles
Double Bass Masterclass (Matthew McDonald)
Joanna Leach Obituary
Alfred Brendel 3 Lectures on DVD
New listening to familiar symphonic music (Abbado & the New World symphony)
Mozart the Performer/Composer (Keefe/Irving)
New Formats for recorded music
Champs Hill Records (2)
Mozart Uncovered (Charles Hazlewood, BBC Four TV)
Scelsi 1981-2011 (Piano Works, Bissette)
Hans Otte Sound of Sounds [Book by Ingo Ahmels]
Rachel Podger - Baroque Violin Masterclass at Royal Academy of Music
Masterclasses - Berman and Kliegel
Understanding Mozart's Piano Sonatas (John Irving)
The String Quartet - a Second Golden Age
Music in Glasgow October 2010
Regis Records (mostly re-issues)
Hyperion Records at 30
Mode Records [Autumn 2010]
Buddhism and contemporary Western Music (Harvey & Wiegold)
Summer Music in Switzerland
Param Vir's Encounter on Sky Arts 2
Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas on Fortepianos (Malcolm Bilson etc)
Three from Bridge Records (Beethoven, Haydn & Piazzolla)
Neal Thornton Sonya's Story (Riverside Studio August 2010)
Gonzaga Band at St Jude's
OHP’s Opera Challenge (Francesca da Rimini)
Darbar Festival 2010
Discovery Records - Danacord & Dux
Reviewing College Students - RAM & RADA
Toccata Classics and Toccata Press
Book review Martinu and the Symphony Michael Crump
Downloading Cedille
Giacinto Scelsi as I knew him - Elisabeth Buzzard
Belgravia concerts and Fazioli pianos
Darbar 2009 and Four Albert Herrings
Music at London Colleges - 18/19 March 2010
Organ Master Class (Royal Academy of Music)
Concerts at Piano Showrooms
Sir Arthur Sullivan’s Grand Opera ‘Ivanhoe’ and its Theatrical and Musical Precursors (Dailey)
Champs Hill Records
Texts for CD re-releases (Koechlin & Wolf)
Digital Classics: Arts Documentaries on Music, Dance & Painting
CD reviewing - 3 from Hyperion
Music to Change Life (José Antonio Abreu's El Sistema)
Francis Schwartz The Grey Road for bass tuba and Concerto for Solo Conductor
both on YouTube
The Ingenious Mr. Avison (Book Review)
Felsenstein in Berlin 1989
Brown & Black - Ronald Brautigam at GSMD
Fauré’s Barcarolles Refreshed (Roy Howat & Rebecca Trialoup)
Dudamel in Caracas and Bonn
Birthday Concerts - John McCabe and Imogen Cooper
Jurowski’s Mahler 2nd Symphony – a work in progress
Whitty thirty-nine pages CD launch (Morgan – Dullea)
Stravinsky & Balanchine
British Music Society CDs
Tête à Tête Opera Festival 2009
Darbar Festival of Indian Music on SkyArts and YouTube
Masterclasses by Hardenberger, Hough & MacGregor (The Masterclass Media Foundation)
- - pianists don't wear their injuries on their sleeves... (Heather O'Donnell)
Unknown Britten
Roy Howat - The Art of French Piano Music (book review)
A week at the Royal Academy of Music (concerts, a musical and a master class)
Launch of Music Preserved Live
Melba's first recordings
Mode Records (Cage, Berio, Xenakis etc)
Electronics in the Music of Jonathan Harvey
French Piano Music - Roy Howat Masterclass & book launch (Royal Academy of Music)
Darbar Festival 2009 (2)
Music on the Internet - Brahms & Haydn
Benjamin Zander discusses Bruckner's Symphony No. 5
Haydn reissues on CD & mp3CD
NMC @ 20 and New Notes online
Three from CODA (Gabriel Prokofiev string quartet)
Three from Discovery (Scriabin/Sofronitsky; Berio & Florent Schmitt)
Signum releases Feb/March 2009
Heartsprings charity concert
Three weeks at Wigmore Hall (Richard Smith)
K&K CDs for the New Year
LPO & Philharmonia Saturdays (Martinu, Rachmaninov & Indian cross-over)
Classical Concert Highlights of 2008 (a personal choice from Julie Williams)
Keeping it Live (Trio Jean Paul & Atrium Quartet)
Three from Somm [Berners, D'Indy & Moeran; Janacek; Lutoslawski]
Romanian Spectralists (Dumitrescu & Avram)
What’s so special about Bellini ? (Serena Fenwick)
Smirnov at 60 (Goldsmiths' College)
Lyrichord Early Music Series
The Felsenstein Edition (operas from Berlin)
History of the Mandolin (Travis Finch)
Rare piano composers (Bennett, Best, Parry & Czerny)
Signum Records (October 2008 releases)
Spectralism Today (Tim Rutherford-Johnson)
Select Music & Opus Arte (October 2008)
Indian Classical Music for the Blind and Deaf (Kings Place opening festival)
A London Day (Minimalism, Lutes and Flutes)
Lasse Thoresen and musical insularity
Feldman & Scelsi - less is more
Jonathan Harvey Prom live & on BBC radio Listen Again
A MOVING EXPERIENCE by Francis Schwartz
SACD+Blu-ray; LL & Linn
timpani records - an overview
Lorelt Records (an overview of a unique record label)
Pianolas & Reproducing Pianos (Denis Hall & Rex Lawson)
Olivier Messiaen: Music, Art and Literature (book review by Aleks Szram)
Soviet Music and Beyond (Goldsmiths College Centre for Russian Music)
Beethoven's Violin Concerto in Context
HORIZONS TOUCHED (ECM's history)
TIME REVERSED? (Rzewski's Nonsequiturs - Daryl Runswick)
"the musical score in times of conceptualisation" (Reynaldo Young)
Left and Right - platform placements - (flute recital at SJSS)
Whitsun operas in Hungary (Serena Fenwick)
Masterclasses (Bernard Haitink, Andras Schiff & Maxim Vengerov)
Lecture - Beethoven's last piano sonatas (Andras Schiff)
Adaptation and Retranslation (T.S.Eliot to Italian and back again)
Frederic Rzewski's collected writings (Nonsequiturs)
Richard Goode Piano Master Class
Mozart Master Class (Robert Levin with Catherine Mackintosh)
Barenboim/Beethoven (2)
Mandolins at Trinity College of Music
A week's London concert-going
Gergiev's Mahler (Barbican 2007)
CD technology (Survey by Ying Chang)
The Better Land by Stephen Beet (book review)
The Lute Society Quarterly Meeting November 2007
Greenwich/Trinity College of Music Early Music Festival 2007
Beaux Arts Farewell (streaming from Radio 3)
Sidi Goma at SOAS
Monteverdi and Flecha; Listening and texts
Discovery Scheme for Young Composers (LSO/François-Xavier Roth)
CD Insert Booklets
CD booklets and concert programmes - Who are they for?
Music and the Brain
Paul Potts (Britain's Got Talent)
Yet More about filming at concerts (a different view)
More about filming at concerts (Proms 2007)
Is Sound Quality declining? (Ying Chang)
Bach: A Life in Music (Peter Williams)
Hatto – The End of the Affair
Sir Colin Davis Conducting Masterclass
Francois Le Roux Masterclass (Guildhall School)
The Making of Music (BBC Audiobooks)
Claus Kühnl: Der beleidigte Papagei (The offended parrot)
A day's listening...
Merry Widow (OHP preperformance talk)
Opera Holland Park - Testing the new Theatre
Destruction during Renovation - the Cutty Sark
Do we know less about classical music?
(response to Sir Peter Maxwell Davies)
Classical Sauce: if music be the love of food....
Destruction during Renovation - the Cutty Sark
Rostropovich (1927-2007)
Playing Bach's Clavieruebungen (Peter Watchorn on Elizabeth de la Porte)
New & Old; Loud & Soft (British Clavichord Society 31 March 2007)
The Joyce Hatto hoax 2007 (1)
Hatto Week 2; fictitious recordings and blind listenings (2)
Hatto: her widower's "confession" (3)
Hatto Research: The Mazurka Project (4)
Hatto – The End of the Affair
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Do we really need another recording of...?
(Carducci's Haydn Quartets)
Book Review: Marjorie Wright – How to be a Bad Singer
Bach Goldberg Variations; Partita No. 5 (Glenn Gould; Obert-Thorn transfer)
The Age of the Bargain Box
Does size matter? (Bach Mass in B minor BWV 232/ Jos van Veldhoven)
Genius Children (Channel 4 documentary film)
Robert Levin at "Steven Isserlis Beethoven Day"
Ustvolskaya Obituary (PGW in The Guardian, 13 January 2007)
Beethoven Op. 109-111 - Spiritualism informed by musicology
Schnabel's Beethoven recordings (2)
Does Sound Quality Matter?
Two String Quartet recitals
Wagner Society
UK Young Singer programmes
Heather O'Donnell - Ives, Herrmann & Lang from Cologne
Lachenmann at Royal College of Music 2006
Listening on computer to Cavalli's Apollo & Dafne (Naxos CD)
Listening outside the Barbican Hall
Malcolm Arnold and Robert Simpson: the Fox and the Hedgehog
The Pianola Institute 21st Anniversary
Tokyo String Quartet (Schubert D887 at Wigmore Hall and on Radio 3 Listen Again )
A month of Naxos
Wihan Quartet Master Class
Critical Notice (Unknown Public and BMIC)
Mozart House - Mozart Experience
Conrad Williams The Concert Pianist & and Vladislav Spilman The Pianist (Book reviews)
LUIGI NONO AND THE BRITISH MUSICAL 'INTELLIGENTSIA'
Beethoven and Clementi (RAM Research Workshop)
EDITORIAL How we listen now? [2]
The music critic blinks (Reflections upon Charles Rosen & Malcolm Gladwell)
David Rothenberg Why Birds Sing
Staging Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth operas in London
Myra Hess Celebration at the National Gallery
Book review: Frank Tallis Vienna Blood
Luis de Pablo at 75
Lontano at 30
Peter Feuchtwanger Piano Exercises
Prom Matinee - theatre and film on radio only! (Shostakovich)
Proms Composer Portrait (Jonathan Harvey)
Proms at home
(Responses How people listen )
Scelsi, a memoir - Natura Renovatur
15 and 90 - Anita Chen and Artur Rubinstein in Grieg's Piano Concerto
Listening to Gloriana on CD and DVD
Totally acoustic (Trilok Gurtu at QEH)
Operetta at Holland Park
Concerts in churches and their presentation for broadcasting (City of London Festival)
Mostly Mozart at The Barbican
Interactive Guides to Indian Classical Music and Beethoven piano music
How we listen now? (English Piano Quartets)
Mahler/ Schönberg/Stravinsky/Berio (Frank Scheffer documentary films)
Rzewski Festival (Trinity College of Music)
Another evening at RAM: Mozart, Clementi & a Marimba recital
Stockhausen's Mixtur in the dark
Teresa Berganza Masterclasses
Pierre Boulez - exposition of Eclat & Sur Incises
Prokofiev Study Day (Goldsmiths College)
Schubert's Piano Music (Goldstone, Schuchter, Staier and Tverskaya)
A day at the Royal Academy of Music
and
Arrangements of canonic favourites
New reconstruction of the Finale of Bruckner's Symphony No.9
Got Carter? (Elliott Carter in contexts)
Responses to "Got Carter?"
Bartók String Quartet No 4 in contexts (Carter & Muzikas)
Spectrum 4 (ABRSM Thalia Myers)
Sawkins, Ex Cathedra and Hyperion
Malcolm Bilson ‘ Knowing the Score ' DVD and J.S. Bach master classes
Signing Handel's Xerxes at ENO
John Steane's “Dozen leading voices on record”
The Best? Some thoughts about hype and hyperbole
DISTINCTION by Ian Pace
HYPE AND REALITY Schubert Extravaganza
Alexander Satz Piano Master Classes at GSMD and RCM , London
York Gate Research Seminars etc (Royal Academy of Music Public Teaching Events 2005 )
José Cura Masterclass (British Youth Opera & Royal Academy of Music)
"Musical Stretching" and H.I.P. (Homburger/Guy)
Style in the 'Art' of the International Violin Competition (Elizabeth Wallfisch Early Music Review) An important contribution to the mounting body of literature expressing concern about music performance competitions
Tackling James Clarke and his Isolation
Beethoven Diabelli Variations revisited (Schnabel to Battersby and Uri Caine)
Downie What is the Masterprize? + Reply by Ian Pace
City of London Festival July 2005
The emphasis is upon bringing international artists into the magnificent churches and Livery Halls, with acoustic considerations secondary.
Guardian/BBC Proms Young Composers Competition
- hear the winning compositions online (Duncan Ward - Trinity & Dartford)
Holiday reading suggestion : Mortal Mischief by psychologist/musician Dr Frank Tallis, a psychological murder mystery set in musical Vienna at turn of Century, with Mahler & Freud putting in appearances.
The end of the Surtitles Controversy
Blinkers off ! (Musica Sacra 2006 threatened)
Stravinsky & Mendelssohn-Hensel (RAM research events)
SCHILLERFEST Royal Academy of Music
Amateur and Expert Wieland Hoban
Who'll need CDs? (Aviv & Jerusalem String Quartets on the internet, etc)
" Only a Website " - reflections on prejudice and discrimination, with reader responses
Macmillan ringtone ( What would Teddie Say? ) Wieland Hoban
Felix Aprahamian - self-taught music critic
Shura Cherkassky - Philip Fowke lecture at Trinity College of Music
Gordon Downie & Ian Pace - a dialogue about music, visual art, culture, modernism, Marxism and Britain
Hear And Now Italians
Dmitri Smirnov - The Rhythmical Aspect of the Sacrificial Dance by Igor Stravinsky
and with a link to his article on Twelve Rhythmic Patterns of Ligeti's Lontano
Book Reviews: SERKIN, SILOTI AND PACHMANN
Franz Schmidt CD and study score
Prokofiev in America (50th Anniversary Conference & Recital at University of London)
Book Reviews: Ruth Fleischmann's Celebration of 50 years of Cork International Choral Festival & Aloys Fleischmann biography
Tradition and Invention: a personal response by Ian Pace to Dillon's The Book of Elements and contemporary culture
Dmitri Smirnov A Geometer of Sound Crystals - A Book on Herschkowitz
Francis Schwartz's music theatre presentations
Merton Music - a publishing miracle
COPYRIGHT by Theo Wyatt
Christopher Wood Jerwood Library seminar
"Cutting Edges" of contemporary music (Editorial reflections)
Inside Monteverdi Study Weekend (Let there be lights!)
Two Radio 3 Programmes ( Hear & Now and Discovering Music )
Concepts of Rhythm in the Performance Practice of Twentieth Century Music - Mieko Kanno
HYPE AND REALITY Schubert Extravaganza
Takacs Quartet Lecture Recital (Bartok No 6) - 5.5.03
Tradition and Invention: Ian Pace ~ a personal response to Dillon's The Book of Elements
Heather O'Donnell & Charles Ives
"Why not amplify?"
The Music of Stefan Wolpe,Tate Modern September 2002
February Reports
Music and Utopia
Mörike Lieder Study Afternoon
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Miscellaneous
About Seen & Heard (July/December 1999) with link to Complete S&H Archive
Links & URLs to PGW's S&H reviews & reports since 1999
Musical Pointers Launch & mission statement (2002)
Luis de Pablo (article originally published in Music Web)
Giacinto Scelsi (PGW's Obituary in The Independent)
Alexa's Hats Parade
Alexa's Peter Jones Guardian obituary
Peter Jones 2. Text only of above obituary
whistleblower postscript
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