Reviews
I made it my business to explore the music of my contemporary George Benjamin in recent months, and was wondrously struck by the wealth and richness of his creative output, most especially in the outpouring of recent works. He is without question one of the most successful and accomplished composer
Features
An exciting work for two percussionists from Berlin – Lukas Böhm and Ni Fan, who played the world premiere of this 2-percussion version of a much bigger piece at the Bad Kissingen Festival last summer. The rhythms, splashed on an array of percussion instruments, were inspired by ritual drumming at a
Reviews
Elucidating Wagner’s Rich Myth of Transformation INTRODUCTION It is hard to visit a performance of Parsifal without interpretative clutter getting in the way. It is not drawn primarily from a Christian source, despite being linked to Christian references. Nor is it a “sacred drama”, for Wagner had far more
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Once a year, perhaps twice a year, one might get to a concert in London that goes down as a life-long memory of something extraordinary. The performance on the 29th September, 2016 at London’s Royal Festival Hall by the Philharmonia Orchestra of Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex had precisely that
Throwback Thursday
In order to endow a new work with value, it is not necessary to call it ‘experimental’, as if that could rubber stamp it with newness and worthiness. I am not sure that I would describe my work as ‘experimental’. Another commonly used tag for work crossing the boundaries between