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Recording the Fourth Symphony … At Last!
In March 2020 my wife and I were all set to journey from our home in south-eastern France to Manchester to hear the BBC Philharmonic…
Steve Elcock Orchestral Music IndieGoGo
Help to make the first recording of Steve Elcock’s Orchestral Music a public release by funding the IndieGoGo campaign: After writing music for over 25…
Coming in from the Unknown
English composer Steve Elcock describes his emergence from total obscurity At the age of seventeen, I sat the entrance examination to go to Oxford to…
Recording “An Outstretched Hand” and Other Chamber Works
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…
Cooking Up A Symphony: Steve Elcock Examines What Makes A Good Recipe
After I posted a recipe on one of the social networks, two composer friends suggested, jokingly, that I should come up with a recipe for…
An Infinity of Traces: Influence Without Anxiety
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,…
Borrowed Time
It is something of a myth that composers tend to die after completing their ninth symphony, based on the relatively few that did so and…
Too Many Symphonies? – Part One: Rob Keeley
Sometime in the 1950s, when John Barbirolli famously said ‘there are too many symphonies this year, or any year’, he might have been weary after…
A Radio Presenter’s Experience
I had long harboured the desire to present a radio programme. Years of growing up with radio in the 1950s had exposed me to mostly…
Rodney Newton’s Spanish Diary
UPDATE: ALBUM AVAILABLE NOW! Day 1, Sunday, 17 September 2017 This afternoon my old friend Martin Anderson and I set out for Málaga to record…
Toccata Pipeline
Havergal BRIAN: Complete Choral Songs, Vol. 2 Joyful Company of SingersPeter Broadbent, director First Complete RecordingTOCC 0680 Moritz MOSZKOWSKI: Orchestral Music, Vol. 4 Symphony in…