Mosaics
A rare treat – the LSO and François-Xavier Roth gave me an hour of rehearsal time to run through the piece whose first performance they…
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News & Views
Britten-Pears Young Artists
This November the Aldeburgh Composition and Performance Course at Snape returns after a gap of more than 3 years. It’s difficult to believe that it’s…
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Cleveland Pictures at Snape
Cleveland Pictures is by far the most significant of Olly Knussen’s unfinished works, and if it had reached completion would have been his largest scale…
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A Visit to Friends
At the beginning of March I was given a very generous week in the Peter Pears Recital Room at Snape Maltings to work with a…
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Beethoven for Three
Arranging Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony for piano trio is not something I ever expected to do, but when Emmanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos and Yo-Yo Ma ask…
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