Aldeburgh Composition and Performance Course 2017
This year’s Aldeburgh Composition and Performance Course at Snape has just ended, 25 years since Olly Knussen and I set up the first one. Seven…
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Two Baudelaire performances
Two Baudelaire-related performances in 3 days. On June 10 Claire Booth gave the first performance of A Land of Rain with the BCMG and Oliver…
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10 Pig Songs at Magdalen Farm
I’ve been gradually adding Pig Songs each year for the Magdalen Farm Strings Course (2017 course participants pictured) and this year, the 10th anniversary of…
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Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen in Winterthur
Another weekend away – this time to hear the Mahler arrangement commissioned by the Musikkollegium Winterthur for Ian Bostridge. It’s for 12 instruments, and sounded…
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Barbirolli Oboe Competition, Isle of Man
I spent the weekend of April 1 at the spectacular coastal town of Port Erin, where the Arts Centre housed the competition founded by Evelyn…
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