Know Your Composer
Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1610) should undoubtedly be considered the most significant Spanish composer of his time. He exclusively devoted his life and creative energies to the Catholic Church, and became one of the leading musical figures of the Counter-Reformation. Born around 1548 in the city of Ávila — a medieval
Throwback Thursday
On a cold wintry week in November 2016, top ten prodigious child pianists between the ages of 9 to 14 years selected by the Láng Lǎng International Music Foundation, set forth on a seven-day musical adventure called the Allianz Junior Music Camp. It was a privilege for me to be
Features
Ravi Shankar’s opera Sukanya receives its world premier with a four city UK tour in May 2017. The work is a collaboration between the Royal Opera House of Covent Garden and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. It takes as its subject a story from the Mahabharata which tells the tale
News
Recalling Roots presents New Brazilian Music Featuring DANIEL MARQUE and MARK ALBAN LOTZ – Energetic acoustic Guitar/Flute duo – Music with a surprising edge. Mark Lotz meets Daniel Marques in a combination of Brazilian music and Jazz. They will present their solo work and as duo. Their music is at the
News
Interlude, Hong Kong’s classical music portal invites its readers to a passionately curated audio-visual knowledge portal. With contributors from diverse fields such as Psychology, Art History, Media Studies, alongside, the Musicians and the Musicologists, one is introduced to themes, which are organised around music history to contemporary music festivals.
Throwback Thursday
Since its beginning, the NCPA’s performing arts archive has preserved a staggering 6,200 hours of music, 1,250 hours of video recording, 300 hours of folk music and 65 hours of film recordings. By Anil Dharker ‘Archive’ is a wonderfully evocative word, suggesting a civilisation, which values its
Music Education
Even though pianists can boast some level of extraordinary abilities when it comes to being ambidextrous, we too are subject to our natural tendencies to favour our right or left hand. Let’s set aside for a moment what our limb-favouring means for our technique at the piano. Instead, let’
Interviews
Serenade Team: Schönberg and Berg in their atonal music used forms from centuries ago. They incorporated fugues, canons, the sonata form, etc. They always had this organic link with this tradition of centuries in Western art music. Today, with people like Iannis Xenakis or Edgard Varèse (going into more electronic
Reviews
A group of students from the Nottingham Trent University, ranging from 19-22 years, charmed a packed audience at the theatre of the British Council on Wednesday, the 5th of April, 2017. The youngsters are pursuing different courses ranging from Architecture to Geography. Music is simply for the purpose of leisure.
Reviews
Even the second time around this year, Helene Grimaud’s Acqua (Water) concert felt new to the ear, as though refreshed by a spritz of fresh insights. The pieces in the programme are almost all thematically related to water, and intricately interconnected: Luciano Berio’s Wasserklavier was inspired by a
Music Education
Everyone who takes a music exam hopes to achieve a distinction and this needs careful preparation of the supporting tests as well as the pieces. Sight Reading Sight reading is playing or singing a previously unseen piece. Sight reading is tested in practical music exams because it is an important
Reviews
Ton Koopman’s version of Handel’s Messiah at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, was rather different from the ones typically heard all over the Anglo-Saxon world; and it was unusual enough to prompt some detailed research into the musicology of what most classical music lovers think of