Tag: London

• Graham Fitkin – Vamp – Angel Session edit (2012)

  Jan 12

  Inspired by the 1936 Post Office information film Night Mail by Benjamin Britten and W. H. Auden, the music is composed by Graham Fitkin (winner of British Composer Award 2009)… more ›

• Peter Gabriel’s New Blood Orchestra recording at Air Studios

  Aug 23

  A series of orchestral teasers for Peter Gabriel’s ‘New Blood’ record. The New Blood Orchestra recorded versions of Peter’s songs for a forthcoming album at Air Studios in June. The… more ›

• Five contenders for 'Turner Prize of music'

  May 15

  A ‘satellite symphony’ delivered via an iPhone app, a portable organ that recycles sounds, and a work shaped by the movement of the stars are just three of the contenders… more ›

• Interview with Antonio Pappano

  May 15

  We are having an early lunch. Antonio Pappano, music director of the Royal Opera House, has blocked off the afternoon for a recording session at EMI’s Abbey Road studios in… more ›

• Nonclassical Records Releases Gabriel Prokofiev's "Piano Book No. 1" Performed by GéNIA

  Mar 30

  When Gabriel Prokofiev first heard virtuoso pianist GéNIA, he was so inspired by her incredible control of the piano and expressive touch that he put aside previous reservations and decided… more ›

• London Symphony Orchestra / John Adams, Barbican Hall, London

  Mar 14

  The intimations of both Ravel and Stravinsky in Colin Matthews’ opulent orchestrations of Debussy’s gusty Preludes “The Wind in the Plain” and “What the West Wind Saw” made for a… more ›

• Andras Schiff/Juliane Banse, Wigmore Hall

  Jan 11

  If Mendelssohn’s centenary has exposed his deficiencies as a choral composer and symphonist, it has also highlighted his wonderful and underrated gift as a song composer. more ›