ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS OF GENERAL INTEREST
Comments and responses to Articles particularly welcomed
Editorial de Musica Espanola (Agustin Maruri's label EMEC)
Chamber Studio Master Classes
The Better Land by Stephen Beet (book review)
Beaux Arts Trio Farewell - streaming on Radio 3 Listen Again
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)
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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
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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
Beethoven's Diabelli Variations interpreted on Fortepiano & Steinway (Vorotko)
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
D mitri 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
Susan Tomes writes in The Guardian
Music and Utopia
Mörike Lieder Study Afternoon
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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
Alexa's Hats Parade
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