Several years ago, through a mutual acquaintance, I met Dongmin Kim, the conductor of the New York Classical Players, and we immediately felt a kinship.…
Photographs by Claudius MayWoehl, Woehl-Orgel-Projekte A Saami Requiem A Saami Requiem is an extraordinary meeting-place of musical cultures โ western classical, Sรกmi yoik, Nordic folk-dance, electric rock,…
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Ever since, some years ago, I heard the State Philharmonic Orchestra of Rhineland-Palatinate performing a symphony by Friedrich Gernsheim (1839โ1916), I have been seeking to…
Three Generations explores music by three generations of composers from the Tcherepnin family: Ivan, Alexander and Nikolai. Each of the three wrote a wide range…
Having traversed the symphonies of Robert Keeley in Part One of this brief survey (Too Many Symphonies โ Part One โ posted on 9 March…
An inadvertent benefit of the lockdowns of 2020 and 2021 was that I had time to do lots of recording. I was able to record…
The first thing I noticed was the trees. Once we were out of Riga airport, they soon crowded up to the edge of the road;…
My contribution to Svetik โ the opening section, โThree Sistersโ โ deals with Sviatoslav Richterโs relationship to his mother and her sister (Dagmar von Reincke,…
This Friday, 7 April, the Romanian Cultural Institute in London plays host to the first of two events paying homage to Pascal Bentoiu, one of…
Toccata Classics has now released five albums of the piano music of the Estonian composer Heino Eller โ enough for Toccata founder Martin Anderson to…
UPDATE: ALBUM AVAILABLE NOW! Day 1, Sunday, 17 September 2017 This afternoon my old friend Martin Anderson and I set out for Mรกlaga to record…
I often play a kind of party game with friends: each participant will offer a recording of a piece of music by a less-well-known composer,…
At half past four on a Friday morning in May 2018 I set out from my home in south-eastern France to go to England. The…
This Friday, 6 March, Ronald Stevenson will celebrate his 87th birthday. In a different world, or even just a different country, one where human life…
Volume One of the Martinลฏ Early Orchestral Works series brought much satisfaction to all involved. Martin Anderson was delighted by the quality of the new…
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