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CD Review- Gramophone Magazine on Psalm: Contemporary British Trumpet Concertos
Reviewed in the February 2015 issue of Gramophone Magazine buy Guy Rickards “Four vibrant, attractive concertos…. by three of Britain’s brightest and best, and performed with dazzling virtuosity and...
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CD Review: Birmingham Post on Psalm- Contemporary British Trumpet Concertos
PSALM- CONTEMPORARY BRITISH TRUMPET CONCERTOS £12.00 Add to cart SIMON Desbruslais demonstrates his virtuosity in four fresh, vigorous and varied works by three British composers. In Deborah...
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Classical Music Magazine- Meet the Maestro (KW)
The current issue of Classical Music Magazine includes a nice feature piece from critic and essayist, Rick Jones. On sale now!
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Sir Simon Rattle and the LSO- The right conductor, but for the right reasons?
Congratulations are most certainly in order to both Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony on the occasion of Sir Simon’s appointment as the LSO’s next Principal Conductor. I can scarcely imagine...
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KW Too many records in March International Record Review
From the current issue of International Record Review. A wonderful magazine every music lover should subscribe to. Condolences to everyone there on the death of Barry Irving, the magazine’s founder and...
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CD Review- Gramophone Magazine on Franck, Falla and Turina Concertante works...
Critic Bryce Morrison writes in the Gramophone: Throughout her long and distinguished, if insufficiently acknowledged career, Valerie Tryon has remained true to her own lights. Virtuoso teasers such...
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International Record Review- The Last Word
The news that International Record Review magazine has been forced to stop publishing following the death of Barry Irving is a blow for everyone in the classical recording industry. I met Barry only...
View ArticleNine reasons you might just get away with a mistake in concert
So you made a mistake on the gig yesterday. I feel your pain. We all make mistakes- I made a real howler twice in the same place on a cello gig recently and it’s been bothering me ever since. Mistakes...
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Has social media turned music’s back to the audience?
“Social media.” It’s a phrase we use so often that it’s easy to forget how uneasily the words “social” and “media” sit together. When I see the word “social,” I think of friends and family, of...
View ArticleThe official, definitive guide to the greatest orchestrators of all time
At long last- the research has been completed, the results have been tallied. We can now say with absolute, factual certainty who the 15 greatest orchestrators of all time are. Check out the results,...
View ArticleThe Dangerous and the Disastrous: Orchestrators to approach with caution
There’s no point in compiling a “worst orchestrators” list- the guilty parties would all be hopelessly minor and un-interesting composers. Far more interesting is to have a look at the who the great...
View ArticleVLOG: KW Decodes the Mozart Requiem
Part of a series of vlogs exploring magical minutes in music history- here’s a quick look at the first few bars of the Agnus Dei from the Mozart Requiem. The ESO will be performing the Mozart Requiem...
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CD Review: Gramophone Magazine on English String Orchestra, “Wall of Water”...
From the May 2015 issue of Gramophone Magazine Deborah Pritchard- Wall of Water £7.00 Add to cart Pritchard Violin Concerto, “Wall of Water” Harriet Mackenzie vn English String Orchestra / Kenneth...
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BREAKING: Vftp 538’s the Berlin Philharmonic. We know for sure that the next...
Next week the Berlin Philharmonic picks a new Chief Conductor. Hans Gál and Robert Schumann- Third Symphonies £12.00 Add to cart There’s always bound to be curiosity about who is going to get the best...
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KENNETH WOODS APPOINTED ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF COLORADO MAHLERFEST
This is a Reblog: Read the original official press release from MusicCo International UPDATE- A new interview as Ken speaks to Peter Alexander at Sharps and Flatirons here. Coverage from Norman...
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Charleston: I am aware
I was not aware of what had just happened, but sometimes, it’s better not to know. Today my colleagues (Matthew Sharp, David LePage, Suzanne Casey and Catherine Leech) and I played a noontime recital...
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On Orchestrating Brahms’s Opus 26
The idea for this orchestration of the Brahms Piano Quartet in A Major, opus 26 came to me spontaneously in a real flash of inspiration while I was coaching chamber music at the Ischia Chamber Music...
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RIP Gunther Schuller
I met Gunther at his wonderful festival at Sandpoint in the 1990’s. On the second night of the festival, I ran into him in the bar and in spite of our vast difference in age, achievement and...
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Malcolm MacDonald on Brahms opus 26
Rehearsals have been going well for this weekend’s performance of my arrangement of the Brahms A major Piano Quartet for orchestra in Guildford. For some reason, the A major has always been the least...
View ArticleFour for the Fourth
I gave up a long time ago on trying to find much meaning or substance in music for patriotic occasions. We live an age of such small-minded, parochial jingoism that thinking of any music in terms of...
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