A Finzi Celebration
February 7, 2023
This Saturday, 11 February, the University of St Andrews will be hosting a special celebration of the life and musical career of English composer Gerald Finzi (1901-1956). The morning session… READ MORE
Category: Music
Why we mustn’t forget Gideon Klein: Music triumphing in adversity
January 25, 2023
It seems to have all the ingredients of an epic, if not tragic, film. The young genius, his potential cruelly crushed by an evil regime, a stack of hidden papers… READ MORE
French Art Song: History of a New Music, 1870–1914
November 29, 2022
The engraving manuscript of Gabriel Fauré’s song ‘L’hiver a cessé’, which dates from February 1894, is one of the more fascinating musical autographs of its era. Its first pages are… READ MORE
Ralph Vaughan Williams and Adrian Boult
October 19, 2022
Writing about Vaughan Williams and Adrian Boult has been a labour of love. As a ten-year old boy, the first orchestral concert I ever attended was in March 1967, with… READ MORE
Measure: In Pursuit of Musical Time
October 11, 2022
As someone who splits his professional time between musical performance and writing, it seems fitting that my latest book, about musical time, wedded the two disciplines. Several years ago, I… READ MORE
Emma and Claude Debussy
April 12, 2022
Treading in Emma Debussy’s footsteps was a deeply satisfying experience. Having first mined the resources in the Centre de Documentation Claude Debussy in Paris, I was thrilled to trace the… READ MORE
Nikolay Myaskovsky
March 9, 2022
Patrick Zuk’s new biography draws on a wealth of unexplored sources and offers the first comprehensive critical reappraisal of the life and works of composer Nikolay Myaskovsky (1881-1950). In today’s… READ MORE
Béla Bartók in Italy
February 21, 2022
One of our recent additions to our Music list is Nicolò Palazzetti’s Béla Bartók in Italy: The Politics of Myth-Making, which examines the reputation of Hungarian composer Béla Bartók (1881-1945)… READ MORE
Musics Lost and Found
November 11, 2021
Michael Church, author of The Other Classical Musics: Fifteen Great Traditions (Boydell Press, 2015) discusses his new book Musics Lost and Found: Song Collectors and the Life and Death of Folk Tradition, which has just been… READ MORE
The Dorset Rotulus
September 6, 2021
Surviving examples of medieval motets are few and English ones are rarer still. So the discovery of a new find – two leaves of a musical scroll that originated in… READ MORE
A Finzi Celebration