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Padding Through Bach Like A Tiger
Page 12 from 15th August 2008Oxford International Piano Festival CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL, ST HILDA'S Messiaen and Manchicourt Prom ALBERT HALL B eacon of civilisation......
A State That Tears The Family To Shreds
Page 10 from 10th November 2006Sarah Johnson Home Front B ritish teenagers are the are the worst behaved in Europe, shrieked the headlines last week. A study by the Institute of......
Rescuing Edmund Rubbra
Page 8 from 21st December 2001In the composer's centenary year, Antony Bye ponders the reputation of a neglected symphonist E arlier this year, the English Catholic composer......
Humbling Brilliance Amid The Antlers
Page 12 from 29th August 2008Moritzburg Festival SCHLOSS MORITZBURG. GERMANY • Sleeping Beauty ALBERT HALL S chloss Moritzburg is an impenetrably moated pile near Dresden......
Youth Steps Aside For Middle Age
Page 14 from 27th February 2009S tepping in at the last minute for someone indisposed is a time-honoured way for young unknowns to make it in the music world: down goes the old......
At Last A Truly Catholic Passion
Page 12 from 2nd May 2008MacMillan: St John Passion LSO AND CHORUS, BARBICAN W hen we think of music for Holy Week we think of the Catholic Church, but when we think of......
Headache Inducing, Often In A Good Way
Page 12 from 7th September 2007MUM tmiorly Igor *r To ronyi Mackerras Beethoven Cycle HYPERION E arlier this year, classical music had its 9/11 moment. The earth rocked, the......
Powerful Theatre, But Not Quite A Tsunami
Page 12 from 16th May 2008Tsunami BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS That Man Stephen Ward HAMPSTEAD AND HIGHGATE FESTIVAL J ames Fenton is a poet who presumably feels......
Beethoven's Snap, Crackle And Pop
Page 14 from 15th September 2006WSW REVIEW Igor Toronyi C omplete cycles of the Beethoven and Bruckner symphonies were performed at the Edinburgh International Festival this......
Casting Light On A Forgotten Musical Corner
Page 14 from 29th May 2009O f all the quiet, forgotten corners of contemporary music, contemporary church music is perhaps the quietest and certainly the least fashionable.......