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- December 1999
- December Classical CD Reviews December Film Music CD Reviews
- Tony Duggan continues his synoptic review of the Mahler symphonies
- Symphony No 5
- Seen&Heard
- Schnittke at Goldsmiths College and Wigmore Hall, December 1999
- Berlioz The Childhood of Christ
LSO & Chorus with soloists cond. Sir Colin Davis. The Barbican 19 December 1999
2 GUITARISTS, 4 TRUMPETERS and SIX PIANISTS
David Starobin (guitars) with George Crumb (percussion) Wigmore Hall 13 December
Tom Kerstens (guitars) Purcell Room 14 December
History of the Jazz Trumpet (Park Lane Group) Queen Elizabeth Hall 14 December
Piano Circus (BMIC 'Cutting Edge' series) The Warehouse, SE1 16 December
Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (tenor) & Graham Johnson (piano) French song Wigmore Hall, 15 December 1999
Louis Andriessen M is for Man, Music, Mozart and De Tijd BBC Symphony Orchestra cond. Martyn Brabbins, with New London Children's Chorus The Barbican, 10 December 1999- The Galliard Ensemble Purcell Room. 7 December 1999
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Rex Ingram's film with music by Carl Davis/Nic Raine LPO conducted by Carl Davis. Royal Festival Hall, 12 12 1999
Bach and his Contemporaries King's Consort, Robert King director, with singers Wigmore Hall 9 December 1999.
The Beggars' Opera Broomhill Opera directed by Jonathan Miller, music arranged by Jonathan Lloyd; musical director Charles Hazelwood. Wilton's Music Hall, 7 December 1999.- Beethoven: Violin Concerto; Zimmermann: Photoptosis; Scriabin: Poem of Ecstasy
Kyung Wha-Chung (violin); London Philharmonic Orchestra, Ingo Metzmacher (conductor) Royal Festival Hall Thursday 9 December 1999
Warsaw Autumn Festival 99- Dutilleux The Shadows of Time & Bruckner 7th Symphony LPO cond. Kurt Masur at the Royal Festival Hall, 4 December 1999.
Lars Vogt (piano) Wigmore Hall, 5 December 1999- Berlioz Benvenuto Cellini London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, with soloists, cond. Sir Colin Davis. Barbican 5 December 1999 (also 8 & 11, and 9 December on R3)
OPERA ROUND-UP Handel's Rinaldo at the Barbican (17 November 1999) and Alcina at the Coliseum (29 November 1999); Britten's Peter Grimes, also at the Coliseum (30 November)
JOHN DOWNEY FESTIVAL 30th November
HUDDERSFIELD CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL 15 to 28 November 1999 including
Arditti Quartet, Avanti and Ensemble Recherche in Huddersfield.
National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia Victoria Hall, Halifax 26 November 1999
Joanna MacGregor, piano & Andrew Stones, digital projections Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. 17 November 1999
Chausson Centenary Philippe Graffin (violin), Jeremy Menuhin (piano) and the Chilingirian Quartet. Wigmore Hall, 16 November 1999
Gluck Alceste (Paris version, 1776) starring Anne Sophie van Otter, conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner. The Barbican, 26 October and Radio 3, 13 November
Cornelius Cardew: Treatise (excerpt) Morton Feldman: Why Patterns Music Projects/London (Richard Bernas) BMIC at The Warehouse. Thursday 11 November 1999
Artur Pizarro (piano) Copland, Gershwin, Griffes & Barber Wigmore Hall, 12 November 1999
Mauricio Kagel Music of the Bizarre South Bank Centre 13 Oct. & 2 Nov. '99.London Sinfonietta cond. Oliver Knussen and Reinbert de Leeuw, with soloists.
Musica Transalpina Celebration of Italian Music at the Royal College of Organists Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini (5 & 6 November) and Francesco Cera (11 November) St Andrew's Church, Holborn.
DVORAK CHAMBER MUSIC at Queen Elizabeth Hall 7 November 1999
Florestan Trio, Members of Vellinger Quartet etc., Helene Wold & Hilary Summers (singers) with Eugene Asti (piano)
John Corigliano: A Dylan Thomas Trilogy Royal Festival Hall, London, Saturday 6 November 1999, Patrick Burrowes,treble John Daszak, tenor William Dazeley, baritone BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra Leonard Slatkin, conductor
City of London Sinfonia (Richard Hickox, conductor) at the Barbican, November 6th 1999: Nicholson stramash; Osborne oboe concerto (Nicholas Daniel); Berkeley cello concerto; Tavener the protecting veil (Steven Isserlis)
BMIC at The Warehouse (the cutting edge) Thursday 4th November 1999 Opus 20, director Scott Stroman: Cashian, Keeling and Hämeeniemi- November 1999
- From Monday 9th November we are presenting a daily review page. This will be chosen from forthcoming or back reviews of Classical and Film Music CDs. Film Music will generally be Mondays and Wednesdays. Live concert reviews will also be featured. The review can be accessed here
- We would like to enquire whether there are any composers not covered so far for which you might like a biography. Please e-mail Len Mullenger Len@musicweb.uk.net
November Classical CD Reviews November Film Music CD Reviews
This months Film Music Reviews start with a Shakespeare special.- COMPETITIONS This month we start separate competitions for the Classical and Film Music sites. You could win two discs on each site.
It gives me great pleasure to welcome to the Seen&Heard team Hans-Theodor Wohlfahrt, distinguished UK music correspondent of many European publications, including Neue Zeitschrift für Musik; Neue Züricher Zeitung and Der Standard (Vienna). Theo intends that his involvement will "circle around the unknown, around events I travel to, around composers I feel should be known, and around positive and negative trends". His contributions will enhance the international orientation of S&H, first demonstrated in our coverage of the Strasbourg Musica99 festival.
Peter Grahame Woolf
- Joseph Holbrooke
Welcome to Joseph Holbrooke- Sir Michael Tippett
Welcome to Sir Michael Tippett- Mátyás Seiber
Welcome to Mátyás Seiber- Seen&Heard
FIBONACCI at St John's, Smith Square, November 2nd 1999
Skalkottas: String Quartets 3 & 4 / Five Greek Dances New Hellenic Quartet The Hellenic Centre, London Friday 22 October 1999
Two reports from pianoworks'99 (Stephen Coombs, Frederic Chiu, Piers Lane, Vladimir Ovchinikov, Artur Pizarro, Jonathan Plowright and Kathryn Stott) Blackheath Halls, London SE3, 20 -24 October 1999
Ivor Gurney's Songs and Poems Ian Partridge (tenor) & Jennifer Partridge (piano) with actors.South Bank Centre 31st October 1999
Max Black at Lyric Hammersmith 29 October 1999
IAN PACE at bmic, The Warehouse 28th October
GEMINI at Goldsmiths Simon Limbrick (percussion) 27 October 1999
Federation of Recorded Music Societies West Midlands Region Conference Birmingham and Midland Institute October 23rd 1999
THE BEGGAR'S OPERA Cardboard Citizens and the Baylis Programme at English National Opera; Bridewell Theatre, London: 30 September to 23 October 1999- Tony Duggan continues his synoptic review of the Mahler symphonies
- Das Lied von der Erde
- October 1999
- William Mathias
Welcome to William Mathias
- Lennox Berkeley
A biography from David Wright
Karl Rankl A fascinating interview with the composer's widow by Paul Conway.
- Seen&Heard
MAHLER SYMPHONIES SEEN & HEARD
2 PIANOS 4 HANDS Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt Comedy Theatre, London, 12 October 1999
HANDEL La Resurrezione The English Consort/Trevor Pinnock at The Barbican Centre 6 October 1999
Tosca and Nabucco Chisinau National Opera at Dartford and Kensington (Orchard Theatre, Dartford 8 February and Royal Albert Hall 11 October 1999)
Paul Simmonds (Pedal Clavichord) BCS Recital at Art Worker's Guild, London, 9 October 1999
Zemlinsky Es war einmal... RFH 6th October 1999; BBCSO cond. Sir Andrew Davis, with soloists.
HARIPRASAD CHAURASIA (flute) and SHIV KUMAR SHARMA (santoor) with guests at the Barbican Centre, 1st October 1999
Musica99 Seen&Heard visits the Spanish Festival held in France
- October Classical CD Reviews
September 1999
Havergal Brian Society
A major update with many new files
Ottorino Respighi
Complete update of web site
Richard Adams surveys the available recordings of Vaughan Williams 9th symphony
Tony Duggan continues his synoptic review of the Mahler symphonies- Mahler Symphony No.2
So You want to be a Hollywood Composer? by Stephen Barton
Will Korngold and Herrmann Be Counted as the Giants of 20th Century Music? by Ian Lace
Ian Parrott
Paul Conway discusses the compositions of Ian Parrott (appended to the article by David Wright)
Quincy Porter- Welcome to Quincy Porter
- Seen&Heard Birtwistle & Ustvolskaya at the Proms; 5 & 6 August 1999
- Definition of a Great Composer by David Wright heads up the beginning of a series of composer profiles.
- September Classical CD Reviews Sept Film Music reviews Film Music Supplementary reviews
- August 1999
Classical Front page has a makeover
BMG announce forthcoming complete Rubinstein edition
Universal announce The Hitchcock Video Collection
Tony Duggan starts his synoptic review of the Mahler symphonies- Mahler Symphony No.1
- August Classical CD Reviews American server Chat room added
August Film Music CD Reviews American server Chat room added
Film Trailer videos now available
Seen and HeardThe first live concert reviews!
- Star Wars Trilogy
- A four CD anthology of the original Soundtrack
- July 1999
- We now have the use of an American server where CD reviews will be posted
- Helen San has given the Film Music a makeover
- Seen and Heard
- A new venture
- Arnold Bax
- A major update
Havergal Brian- A major update
- Luís de Pablo
- Welcome to Luís de Pablo
- Egon Wellesz
- EGON WELLESZ, AN AUSTRIAN SYMPHONIST IN BRITAIN by Paul Conway
- Anthony Hedges
- Welcome to Anthony Hedges
The July Classical CD Reviews US server
The July Film Music CD Reviews US server
June 1999- John Larchet
- Welcome to John Larchet
- Peter Racine Fricker
- Welcome to Peter Racine Fricker
- Priaulx Rainier
- Welcome to Priaulx Rainier
- Sir Lennox Berkeley
- Welcome to Sir Lennox Berkeley
- Roger Sessions
- Welcome to Roger Sessions
- Judith Buckle Soprano
- The June Classical CD Reviews
The June Film Music CD Reviews
Star Wars: Some Observations on that Phantom Menace by Jeffrey Wheeler & soundtrack review
Reginald Smith Brindle - extract from autobiography- MARCH-MAY 1999
- COMPETITION Win a free CD of your choice A fresh chance every month
The May Film Music CD Reviews The May Classical CD Reviews
The April Film Music CD Reviews The April Classical CD Reviews
The March Film Music CD reviews The March Classical CD Reviews
- A Search Engine has now been re-instated on the site.
- Richard Adams reviews the Phase 4 Herrmann recordings
- In Memoriam Charles Gerhardt
- David Wishart tribite to Christopher Palmer
- John Gardner
- On his 80th Birthday
- Edgar Deale
- Welcome to Edgar Deale
- Fiona Cross
- Welcome to Fiona Cross
- Ronald Stevenson
- Welcome to Ronald Stevenson
- Rosalind Ellicott
- Welcome to Rosalind Ellicott
- Patric Standford
- Welcome to Patric Standford
- Elizabeth Maconchy
- Welcome to Elizabeth Maconchy
- FEBRUARY 1999
- This month we welcomed our 15,000th visitor to the Film music site.
- The February Film Music CD Reviews The February Classical CD reviews
- Inglis Gundry
- Autobiography: The Last Boy in the Family
- Elmer Bernstein
- Looking for the key by Norman Tozer
- Seán Ó'Riada
- Welcome to Seán Ó'Riada
- Carlo Martelli
- Welcome to Carlo Martelli
- Frederick May
- Welcome to Frederick May
- David Dorward
- Welcome to David Dorward
- Havergal Brian
- Welcome to the Havergal Brian Society
- JANUARY 1999
- The January Classical CD reviews The January Film Music CD reviews
- REVIEW: JOHN BARRY: A Life In Music By Geoff Leonard, Pete Walker, & Gareth Bramley
- An interview with Peter Katin
Ian Parrott
- Welcome to Ian Parrott
- DECEMBER 1998
- This month we welcomed our 20,000th visitor to the classical site and 10,000th to the Film music site.
- The December classical CD reviews
- FILM MUSIC Review of the year Editor's choice Reviewer's choices Website Awards Dec CD reviews
- Patric Standford
- Welcome to Patric Standford
Gerard Victory
- Welcome to Gerard Victory
Aloys Fleischmann
- Welcome to Aloys Fleischmann
- NOVEMBER 1998
- Classical CD Reviews
- Our First batch of Classical CD Reviews
Welcome to our new reviewer, Paul Tonks
- David Hirschfelder talks to Paul Tonks about Elizabeth
- George Fenton talks to Paul Tonks
- Latest Korngold Recording News
- Report from Percy Grainger weekend by Ian Lace
Martin Shaw
- Welcome to Martin Shaw
Victor Hely-Hutchinson
- Now with photographs
Francis Routh
- Photo Gallery added to the Francis Routh File
- OCTOBER 1998
- Some time in November I hope to place a complete copy of this web site on the Force9 commercial server and this will become the main site from then on. This move has been forced by the impossibility of administering this large web site as a Front Page web. If you use the short URLs (http://come.to/musicweb and http://surf.to/FilmMusic) you will be automatically transferred to the site.
- EMI Great Recordings of the Century
- Details of the first issue
- Warner Bros 75 years
- Warner Bros 75 Years Entertaining the World - 4CD set
- Bernard Herrman
- Book Review: Ian Lace reviews
A Heart at Fire's Center - The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann by Steven C. Smith;- Victor Hely-Hutchinson
- Welcome to Victor Hely-Hutchinson
- George Crumb
- A complete update of the site
- Ottorino Respighi
- Adriano talks about his love of Respighi
Violin Sonata - a commentary by Charlie Niven- John Buckley
- Welcome to John Buckley
- Patrick Hadley
- Welcome to Patrick Hadley
- Paul Patterson
- Welcome to Paul Patterson.
- Film Music Reviews
- October Recorded Film Music Reviews
- SEPTEMBER 1998
- The end of August was marked by a server crash which deleted the entire web-site. We are slowly recovering from this position. All text files and graphics are now back in place but some other facilities are not currently available.
- Frank Bridge
- Welcome to Frank Bridge with a large biography from Rob Barnett with photographs.
- Denis ApIvor
- Autobiography Illustration have also been added to David Wright's biography.
- Warwick Arts Society
- Winter Series A wonderful Winter quartet series.
- James Wilson
- Welcome to James Wilson
- Film Music Reviews
- August - September Recorded Film Music Reviews
- Compilation of Gershwin CD Reviews
- Compilation Of Korngold CD Reviews
- Recommended Film Music recordings UPDATE (a large file 1.5Mbyte - a text only version is available)
- Miklós RÓZSA
- The Concert music of Miklós RÓZSA by Rob Barnett
- CLASSIC FILM SCORES ON MARCO POLO by Richard Adams
- AUGUST 1998
- Film Music CD Reviews
- July - August Recorded Film Music CD Reviews
- Film Music Interview
- Richard Adams intervies David Wishart
- JULY 1998
- British Light Music Composers
- Philip Scowcroft's Garlands: a massive database of British Light Music composers.
- Edmund Rubbra
- Welcome to Edmund Rubbra: Biography and discography
- Elisabeth Lutyens
- Welcome to Elisabeth Lutyens
- David Wright
- Extract from Autobiography: The Music Years 1961 - 67
- Ralph Vaughan Williams
- David Wright on The Fourth Symphony
- Reginald Smith Brindle
- Welcome to Reginald Smith Brindle
- William Alwyn
- William Alwyn by Francis Routh Reprint from Contemporary British Music, 1972
- Thea Musgrave
- Welcome to Thea Musgrave
- Richard Arnell
- Welcome to Richard Arnell
- James Brown
- Welcome to James Brown
- Robert Crawford
- Welcome to Robert Crawford
- John Veale
- Welcome to John Veale
- Francis Routh
- Welcome to Francis Routh
- David Wright
- Welcome to David Wright As well as being a composer he is also a major contributor of articles to this site. Visit this page and see what will be arriving in the future!
- David Wynne
- Welcome to David Wynne
- JUNE 1998
- Film Music Reviews
- June - July Recorded Film Music Reviews
- Redcliffe Recordings
- Redcliffe Recordings are now on-line. This small, mid-price label specializes in the repertoire of British composers. Recordings are all very recent and are usually the première and only available recording of the works.
- Ruth Gipps
- Welcome to Ruth Gipps (Dr Baker)
- William Wallace
- Welcome to William Wallace
- Bantock at the Three Choirs Festival
- Bantock performances and Society AGM Tuesday August 18th, 1998.
- Anthony Payne
- Welcome to Anthony Payne
- John Joubert
- Welcome to John Joubert
- MAY 1998
- Coventry Jazz Festival
- 27-31st August 1998
- Denis ApIvor
- Welcome to Denis ApIvor
- Ian Lace
- Award to Ian for his contribution to British Music
- REVIEW THE LAST PRODIGY - A BIOGRAPHY OF ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD by Ian Lace
- Film Music Reviews
- May-June Recorded Film Music Reviews
- Grace Williams
- Welcome to Grace Williams
- Rhona Clarke
- Welcome to Rhona Clarke
- Alexander Mackenzie
- Welcome to Alexander Mackenzie
- Humphrey Searle
- Memoirs: Quadrille with a Raven Previously unpublished and exclusively available electronically here.
- April 1998
- Korngold News
- New recordings and Biography by Brendan Carroll
- Philip Sainton
- Welcome to Philip Sainton
- Film Music Composer Portraits
- Richard Adams interviews John Morgan
Gerry Goldsmith by Ian Lace- Gerard Hoffnung
- Sale of postcards, books, cassettes, jigsaws
- David Barlow
- Welcome to David Barlow
- The Wilfred Josephs Society
- List of Works completed (at last)
- Humphrey Searle
- Humphrey Searle by David C.F Wright (approx 15 pages)
Humphrey Searle by Francis Routh (extracted from Contemporary British Composers 1972)- Inglis Gundry
- The Operas of Inglis Gundry by Inglis Gundry with many photographs of the productions
- We require help in identifying many of the performers
- March 1998
- Recorded Film Music
March-April Film Music CD Reviews
BRITISH FILM MUSIC by Rob Barnett- Fernando Sor
- Fernando Sor by Andy Daly
- Arthur Butterworth
- Ancestral Voices: Elgar's 3rd symphony
- Edgar
- Photographs added
- George Lloyd
- The Symphonies of George Lloyd by Paul Conway
- Ottorino Respighi
- Graphics added
- Christian Darnton
- Photo gallery added
- February 1998
- Edgar Bainton
- List of Works added
- Benjamin Britten
- Welcome to Benjamin Britten
- Recorded Film Music
- February Film Music CD Reviews
- Benjamin Frankel
- CD Review: Violin and Viola concerti: Hubert Culot
- William Alwyn
- Film score: Odd Man Out by Ian Johnson
- Doreen Carwithen
- More première recordings
- Inglis Gundry
- Inglis Gundry Photo Gallery
- Leo Brouwer
- Welcome to Leo Brouwer
- Humphrey Searle
- List of Works
- Sir Arnold Bax
- Portrait Gallery
- Review of the first release of a Naxos symphonic cycle: Symphony No. 1
- January 1998
- Don Carlo Gesualdo
- Don Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, Count of Conza (1561 - 1613)
- Christian Darnton
- Welcome to Christian Darnton
- Edgar Bainton
- Welcome to Edgar Bainton
- Michael Berkeley
- Welcome to Michael Berkeley
- Inglis Gundry
- Welcome to the Cornish composer Inglis Gundry
- Film Music
- A completely new area of this web site: Film Music
- Ernest Moeran
- Welcome to the Ernest Moeran page
- Hugh Wood
- Welcome to the Hugh Wood page
- Buxton Orr
- Obituary
- Gerard Hoffnung
- Welcome to the Gerard Hoffnung web page
- Eric Coates
- Welcome to the Eric Coates web page
- December 1997
- Buxton Orr
- Welcome to the Buxton Orr web page
- Arthur Butterworth
- Welcome to the Arthur Butterworth web page
- John Ireland
- Complete update of Works list (Phew!!)
- November 1997
- Wilfred Josephs Obituary
- Arnold Bax
- Welcome to Arnold Bax
- The Bantock Society
- A brief introduction to the life and work of Sir Granville Bantock by Vincent Budd
- Discography
- A beginner's guide to the Bantock discography
- Benjamin Frankel
- Benjamin Frankel on-line
- October 1997
- Malcolm Arnold
- New Colour portrait
- BECKUS Contents of the Arnold Society Newsletter
- Malcolm Arnold and Jon Lord by Vincent Budd
- The Bantock Society
- A first recording of Sappho
- Welcome to George Crumb
- We are acting as a mirror site for The Official George Crumb Home Page
- The Dvorak Society
- Welcome to the Dvorak Society
- The Wilfred Josephs Society
- Welcome to the Wilfred Josephs Society
- September 1997
- William Alwyn
- Feature Film list
- Documentary Film List
- Federation of Recorded Music Societies
- Olton Society: Programme update to March 1998
- Bramhall Society added
- John Ireland
- Complete list of works
- Alan Rawsthorne
- The Commercial Recordings by John Belcher
- Published Works
- The Longest Walk on Earth by Alan Rawsthorne
- Rawsthorne's Finest Achievement? by John McCabe
- A Few Random Memories of Alan by Alan Frank
- Some Recollections of Alan Rawsthorne by Thomas Pitfield
- The Pre-war Years by Gordon Green
- Rawsthorne's Recorder Suite A mystery solved by John Turner
- Alan Rawsthorne's Film Music in Context by John M Belcher
Bernard Stevens link
August 1997
- Miscellany
- Thea Musgrave: New recording
- John Ireland
- Discography
- Malcolm Arnold
- discography
- bibliography
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