Returning to Rome in 1705, the Italian virtuoso Nicola Cosimi took at least one violin by the London luthier Robert Cuthbert. Here’s his A Major prelude, played on a lovely 1676 example of that maker’s art.
The first of four concerts – the return of Peter Sheppard Skaerved’s ‘Preludes & Vollenteries series. In association with ‘The Friends of the City Churches’ Programme to include works by Biber, Baltsar, Purcell, MatteisANDCoreen Morsink – ‘Lockdown Sketches’ This will…
‘From this week’s Kreutzer Quartet recordings: Robert Schumann, Heinrich Heine, David Matthews, I, Mihailo Trandafilovski, Clifton Harrison, Neil Heyde. ‘in the wonderful month of Mayas all the buds were springing-then in my heartlove was born in the wonderful month of…
Saturday’s concert will include Baltzar, both Matteis, Westhoff, Purcell, Coreen Morsink and my by-myself version Biber’s ‘Presentation’ sonata. Here at the desk to whet your interest. Mystery prize to the first one who identifies the arch and pediment
At the desk this morning – the 1572 Andrea Amati explores Westhoff’s ‘imitation of bells’. With thanks to Ben Hebbert. To hear this violin LIVE, there are still a FEW tickets left for this Saturday’s ‘Preludes & Vollenteries reviv’d’. (message…
Talking about Kreutzer 5 for The Exhale this evening. Book here for my next sessions ‘ Celebrating Collaboration’
Do listen at 5pm! New work by Tom Metcalf and a classic quartet by Anne Boyd
From today, separate from the ‘at the desk’ series, I am presenting a sequence of recent live performances, of music of our time, in conversation with drawings made over the past few years. To start with Isobel Mundry’s wonderful ‘Balancen’,…
Here’s just a scrap of what we did in the last two days. The astonishing Skylark which ends book 3 of Edward Cowie’s ‘Bird Portraits’. Session outtake, unedited, raw. With Roderick Chadwick (and this is the sky over West Harrow…
First chance to hear an amazing violin (click on the film to find out what!) – many thanks to Ben Hebbert for enabling it – and great to go back my much loved Klagenfurt Manuscript Anon (Klagenfurt MS ca.1685) –…