The Rambler
Blog URL http://johnsonsrambler.wordpress.com
Located London, London United Kingdom
Tags music, classical, modern, contemporary, experimental, avantgarde, reviews, concerts, CDs
Contemporary classical music: reviews, commentary, listings
Latest Blog Posts
- new music::new Ireland 2 reviewed on Nov 25, 2009 in Concerts Reviews Ian Wilson Philip Hammond Philip Martin Ronan Guilfoyle
My review of new music::new Ireland 2, a concert given at King’s Place a week or so ago, is up now on Musical Pointers: The second of two autumn concerts organised by the Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland, brought representatives of Ireland’...
- Richard Barrett podcast on Nov 25, 2009 in Music Richard Barrett
Those of you looking forward to the first performances of Richard Barrett’s Mesopotamia in Huddersfield (28th November; broadcast live on BBC Radio 3) and London (3rd December) might want to listen to this interesting podcast interview with Sar...
- 26 ½ hours in Huddersfield on Nov 21, 2009 in Concerts Music Rambler at large Anthony Braxton Atau Tanaka David Gorton huddersfield James Dillon Jonathan Harvey Michael van der Aa Paul Archbold Pierre Alexandre Tremblay Richard Barrett Roger Redgate Wolfgang Rihm
Friday, 3.30pm I don’t know why I expected it to be otherwise, but I’m still surprised not to see the area around the station full of people obviously on their way to a new music festival. There aren’t any useful maps either. Google just gave...
- More New Irish Music at King’s Place on Nov 16, 2009 in Concerts Music Ian Wilson Philip Hammond Ronan Guilfoyle
Tonight at King’s Place sees the second of two concerts of new Irish music for violin and piano. (For my review of the first concert, see here.) In Solos and Duos for Violin and Piano: 2, Ioana Petcu-Colan (violin) and Michael McHale (piano) ex...
- Can I iz writr now plz? on Nov 13, 2009 in Music ELISION Guardian Richard Barrett
My first Guardian article came out today. I now feel a combination of great satisfaction, disappointment at the inaccurate headline, and terror that someone’s going to find tremendous fault with it. It’s a fairly puffy thing previewing Ri...
- Dillon in the Times on Nov 13, 2009 in Music James Dillon
Incidentally, it’s obviously N*w C*mpl*x*ty week in the British press – here’s a very fine piece on James Dillon (whose music is also being performed in Huddersfield) in today’s Times. The complexity came about as a way of cre...
- ELISION at King’s Place, reviewed on Nov 9, 2009 in Concerts Reviews Aaron Cassidy Carl Rosman Chris Dench ELISION Elliott Carter Evan Johnson Michael Finnissy Richard Barrett Richard Haynes
Sum Over Histories Elliott Carter: Hiyoku Chris Dench: sum over histories Richard Barrett: Hypnerotomachia (wp) Aaron Cassidy: I, purples, spat blood, laugh of beautiful lips Michael Finnissy: Marrngu Evan Johnson: Apostrophe 1 (all communicate is a...
