Music and Poetry from the Burlingtons’ Chiswick Wednesday 4 November 2026 @ 07:00 PM – Booking Opens Soon! Chiswick House & GardensBurlington Lane, ChiswickLondon W4 2RP You’ll hear music written for the Burlingtons by Geminiani, who was a regular guest…
This is the slow movement of the concerto which the much-missed Peter Dickinson wrote for my boyhood teenager, the greatest of all English violinists. Ralph Holmes. He made chamber version for Roderick and me after circumstances prevented my recording the…
Celebrating Edwin Roxburgh – here is the premiere of his passionate, lyrical 2nd Quartet, which kicked off our day of joyful collaboration with the British Violin Making Association on Sunday.
On the overnight practice desk – rich harvest for tomorrow’s day of concerts and workshops with the Kreutzers and the BVMA Royal Academy of Music Astonishing new quartets by @ Sadie Harrison Composer Michael Alec Rose Michael Finnissy Mihailo Trandafilovski…
Pleased to be contacted by an ensemble for performing advice about much-missed Gloria Coates’s wonderful 2nd Quartet. In the decades we worked together Gloria and quartet built up a range of sounds and techniques and sounds particular to her music,…
A conversation today with my old friend and collaborator, Jörg Widmann, so a great excuse to return to his wonderfful Étude 2…
Something lovely for your morning: here is the first chance to hear the fantastic Anna Wolstenholme playing David Hackbridge Johnson’s exquisite Sarabande from his suite, with the Kreutzer gang.
Peter Sheppard Skærved – violin ‘one of the finest living exponents of the violin’ Gramophone Magazine Friday 4th October 6pm St Mary Aldermary Church Watling St, London EC4M 9BW Giuseppe Tartini – Sonatas Michael Alec Rose – Polytych Sadie Harrison…
On Friday September 4th, I returned to the far west of Cornwall for the last of this year’s troika of concerts in dialogue with wonderful Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens. This visit celebrated the music of Robert Saxton, in counterpoint with his…
Here is a very lo-fi sneak peek into the recording studio yesterday. This is the fifth movement of David Hackbridge Johnson’s deliriously joyful suite for flute and string quartet Here we are, just having finished work on his joyful flute…