Tag Archives: Stuart Millson

ENDNOTES September 2018: Commemorating Debussy

Posted on September 16, 2018 by leslie

ENDNOTES, September 2018 Commemorating Debussy  by Stuart Millson Claude Debussy – often referred to as the founder of Impressionism in music – is being commemorated extensively, in the concert hall and on record, in this, the centenary of his death. … Continue reading →

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ENDNOTES, April 2018

Posted on April 12, 2018 by leslie

ENDNOTES, April 2018 In this edition: 20th-century choral music by Sir Arthur Bliss, Frank Martin and Bohuslav Martinu; piano concertos by Grieg and Delius, reviewed by STUART MILLSON Two superbly-produced CDs of choral music have recently appeared – one, a … Continue reading →

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Recessional

Posted on January 6, 2018 by leslie

 Recessional Lo, all our pomp of yesterday  Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!                                          (Kipling) For Stuart Millson, loss and decline … Continue reading →

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ENDNOTES: September 3rd 2017

Posted on September 4, 2017 by leslie

ENDNOTES: September 3rd 2017 Music and Landscape – the works of John Ireland, by Stuart Millson In this season of harvest and late-summer sunshine, what could be a more apt musical accompaniment than the music of John Ireland (1879-1962). Born … Continue reading →

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ENDNOTES, 13th October 2016

Posted on October 18, 2016 by leslie

ENDNOTES, 13th October 2016 In this edition: Chandos’ tributes to Stokowski and Richard Hickox * Choral treasury of English visionaries from Somm Leopold Stokowski (1882-1977) was one of the great showman-conductors of his time – a famed interpreter of Rachmaninov, … Continue reading →

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ENDNOTES, 13th September 2016

Posted on September 24, 2016 by leslie

ENDNOTES, 13th September 2016 In this edition: historic Elgar recordings from Somm, “Our revels now are ended” – contemporary work by Jonathan Dove that concluded the 2016 Proms season Somm Records continues to offer the slightly unusual and often unexpected … Continue reading →

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ENDNOTES, 27th July 2016

Posted on July 28, 2016 by leslie

ENDNOTES, 27th July 2016 In this edition: Three summer festivals – JAM on Romney Marsh * Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov at the BBC Proms * Brass, Welsh voices and the Royal Philharmonic at St. David’s Hall, Cardiff The lonely, low-lying landscape … Continue reading →

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Brexit – now!

Posted on July 5, 2016 by leslie

Brexit – now! Stuart Millson urges our dithering political leaders to detach Britain immediately from the EU A British army of disenchanted voters, from the unregarded towns of the old industrial North and Midlands, to the fishing villages of Cornwall … Continue reading →

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ENDNOTES, July 2016

Posted on July 1, 2016 by leslie

ENDNOTES, July 2016 In this edition: the sixty-ninth Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts, reviewed by Stuart Millson The pre-eminent English composer, Benjamin Britten, founded his music festival on the Suffolk coast in 1948. Rather than British musicians attending … Continue reading →

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ENDNOTES, June 2016

Posted on June 12, 2016 by leslie

ENDNOTES, June 2016 In this edition: world premieres at the Tenth English Music Festival * Dr. Leslie Jones reviews Mozart Explored, An Academy in Vienna, St John’s Smith Square, 26th May 2016 Some 30 years ago (readers of this column, … Continue reading →

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