Thursday, September 30, 2010
When markets turn black...
...then music fans turn puce. Have tickets touts made black market colluders of us all? http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3455
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Gazza, Brach and the late Geoffrey...
Do our publicists need a bit of a holiday? Looks that way... http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3453
Monday, September 27, 2010
Gove calls for music education review
Good words from education secretary Michael Gove re music education in the UK - but how's he going to pay for it? http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3432
Saturday, September 25, 2010
The Perryman Videos
Here are the two parts of my split-screen video chat about music&painting and music&words with kinetic artist Norman Perryman.
Friday, September 24, 2010
Flight past the Green Mountain
Meet Mr Monteverdi. And also meet me and kinetic artist Norman Perryman trying to figure out Skype and split screens, and hear a wonderful radio programme about Faure's Requiem. http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3395
Thursday, September 23, 2010
What Vladimir Jurowski tells me...
...which is not the title of a movement in Mahler 3, but could have been. http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3392
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Toby Takes the Cake
My write-up of Faust at English National Opera. Please will you welcome: a real romantic tenor who happens to be British? http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3391
Monday, September 20, 2010
If only this was unbelievable...
Going for the jugular re some very unpleasant copyright developments at the ROH http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3388
Friday, September 17, 2010
Marking Spence
My interview from today's Independent with Toby Spence, ace British tenor who's singing Faust from next Tuesday. Also a significant out-take in which Toby voices criticism of the current state of singing graduates from British music colleges. Plus an extract of Fausty music from Gil Shaham. http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3385
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Darting on at Dartington
The future's bright after all at the Dartington International Summer School of Music. http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3382
Monday, September 13, 2010
Meet Katya Apekisheva, Jack Liebeck and Tolstoy...
...An interview with Katya, who's playing at the Wigmore on Wednesday, and a fascinating film of The Kreutzer Sonata to watch. http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3380
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Russian Dreaming
A glorious afternoon at the Kings Place Festival listening to Mikhail Rudy... http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3375
Friday, September 10, 2010
Hunting Good Will, Not
In support of Intermezzo over her recent correspondence with the Royal Opera House http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3373
Seasonal Stuff, Sort Of
My interview with Renee Fleming re the Last Night of the Proms, and some little-known religious Korngold to listen to - admittedly for the wrong bit of the Jewish calendar but it was all I could find. http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3372
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Beethoven Moments
Composers and deafness: Beethoven and Faure via Michael Berkeley and an experiment by Krystian Zimerman... http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3370
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Monday, September 06, 2010
"Wriggle a Toe"
Verdi, Domingo and Mantua stun the small screens in 148 countries. http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3363
Sunday, September 05, 2010
"Wouldn't you just die without Mahler?"
Reflections after Mahler 1 by the Berlin Phil & Sir Simon Rattle at the Proms the other night... http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3360
Saturday, September 04, 2010
Pianist in Earthquake
Piers Lane is in Christchurch, New Zealand...http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3359
Friday, September 03, 2010
Time-Travel at the Proms
We're going back to 1910, without a tardis in sight. Indeed, the journey more prominently features Sir Henry Wood's bike... http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3357
Thursday, September 02, 2010
Meet Steven Isserlis
A link to my latest interview with the great cellist, plus some Youtube of him playing some unbelievably amazing Schumann. http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3356
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