First Performances

Tempo ◽  
1996 ◽  
pp. 35-47
Keyword(s):  
Piano Music ◽  
New Music ◽  
List Type ◽  
String Quintet ◽  
Cello Concerto ◽  
Arnold Bax

‘The Doctor of Myddfai’ Roderic DunnettSt Magnus Festival Report Michael TumeltyRobert Simpson's String Quintet No. 2 Matthew TaylorCheltenham Festival: new piano music Calum MacDonaldNew music at the Brighton Festival Guy RickardRecent premières in Germany John WarnabyDmitri Smirnov's Cello Concerto Roderic DunnetRoxanna Panufnik & Arnold Bax Guy Rickards

Record Reviews

Tempo ◽  
2001 ◽  
pp. 49-67
Keyword(s):  
Piano Music ◽  
List Type ◽  
British Music ◽  
Cello Concerto ◽  
Piano Concertos

Bill Hopkins piano music Patrick Ozzard-LowThe Goodwin/Walton ‘Battle of Britain’ Mark DoranEnglund's Cello Concerto and Symphony No.6 Roger SutherlandHartmann Guy RickardsCage Mark TaylorA British Music Round-Up (I) Martin AndersonGarbage Concerto, Rock Symphony Paul RapoportPettersson Sonatas Peter PalmerJames Tenney Mark TaylorRöntgen Piano Concertos Paul RapoportCzeslaw Marek Peter PalmerEötvös John Warnaby

FIRST PERFORMANCES

Tempo ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 66 (261) ◽  
pp. 60-71 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Music ◽  
List Type ◽  
The Tempest ◽  
Cello Concerto ◽  
20Th Anniversary ◽  
The Death Of Klinghoffer ◽  
University Of Manchester

London, Barbican: Alexander Goehr's ‘When Adam Fell’ Paul ConwayLondon, Barbican: Thomas Adès's ‘Polaris’ Robert SteinUniversity of Manchester: Philip Grange's ‘Ghosts of Great Violence’ Paul ConwayManchester University – Psappha 20th anniversary concert Tim MottersheadBirmingham, Symphony Hall: Cecilia McDowall's ‘Seventy Degrees Below Zero’ Paul ConwayLondon, ENO: John Adams's ‘The Death of Klinghoffer’ Robert SteinLondon, Barbican: Rebecca Saunders's ‘Still’ Paul ConwayChichester University: ‘New Music Chi’ John WheatleySt Mary's Church, Shrewsbury: John Joubert's Cello Concerto Paul ConwayLondon, St. Giles Cripplegate: Jericho House's ‘The Tempest’ Jill Barlow

CD Reviews

Tempo ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 61 (241) ◽  
pp. 82-91 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Piano Music ◽  
List Type ◽  
Piano Phase

John Joubert at 80 Paul Conway‘Mr Emmet Takes a Walk’ Richard E. McGregorChristopher Fox Bernard HughesModern American Songs and Encores Peter PalmerVirgil Thomson's Cello Concertos Rodney ListerReich's ‘Different Trains’ and ‘Piano Phase’ Bernard HughesEgon Wellesz's complete piano music Paul ConwayMilhaud's complete piano-orchestra works Bret JohnsonDavid Briggs Jill Barlow

First Performances

Tempo ◽  
1966 ◽  
pp. 16-19
Keyword(s):  
List Type ◽  
Cello Concerto

Nicholas Maw's Sinfonia (Stephen Walsh)Rawsthorne's Cello Concerto (Alun Hoddinott)

Record Review

Tempo ◽  
1996 ◽  
pp. 54-71
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Piano Music ◽  
American Music ◽  
List Type ◽  
Violin Music ◽  
Record Review ◽  
Frank Martin

Schnittke's ‘Faust’ (Hamburg version) Ronald WeitzmanHolmboe and Rautavaara Guy RickardsLigeti piano music Mike SearbyPeter Serkin in real time Nicolas HodgesFrank Martin Peter PalmerSchreker operas Erik LeviEstrada and Nunes Ian PaceMiklós Rózsa Bret JohnsonErkki-Sven Tüür and other Estonians Mike SeabrookRecent Rubbra Peter PalmerViolin music of Benjamin Lees Bret JohnsonAmerican Music Calum MacDonald

Record Reviews

Tempo ◽  
1993 ◽  
pp. 45-61
Keyword(s):  
Chamber Music ◽  
Piano Music ◽  
List Type

‘Stone Litany/Black Pentecost’ John WarnabyBirtwistle on NMC Antony ByeModern British Guy RickardsXenakis Chamber Music Nicolas HodgesThe Essential Gorecki John WarnabyVagn Holmboe series Guy Rickards 51Contemporary Accordion Robin FreemanFinnish Piano Music Martin AndersonOthmar Schoeck on disc Peter PalmerPiano Miscellany Calum MacDonald

Record Reviews

Tempo ◽  
2002 ◽  
pp. 54-70
Keyword(s):  
Piano Music ◽  
List Type ◽  
Elliott Carter ◽  
George Rochberg ◽  
Tan Dun

Recent Birtwistle releases Jonathan CrossElliott Carter on Bridge Records John KerseyAdams's El Nio on CD and DVD Julian HaylockSteve Reich's Triple Quartet Malcolm GallowaySteve Mackey, Christopher Rouse, Tan Dun John KerseyTurnage and Martland Peter ChiinnLouis Gruenberg Bret JohnsonGeorge Rochberg and Hugh Wood Calum MacDonaldPiano Music by Konrad Boehmer Mark R. TaylorGeirr Tveitt Bret JohnsonContemporary British Releases Guy RickardsDruckman and Bassett Calum MacDonald

FIRST PERFORMANCES

Tempo ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 62 (245) ◽  
pp. 54-63
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Music ◽  
List Type ◽  
Cello Concerto

Glasgow: Ronald Stevenson's ‘Praise of Ben Dorain’ Tim MottersheadGlasgow & Edinburgh: Scottish Opera's ‘Five: 15’ David JohnsonBoston: William Bolcom's Eighth Symphony Rodney ListerLondon, Barbican: BBC SO premières Martin AndersonLondon, Barbican: Judith Weir Weekend Paul ConwayLondon, South Bank Centre: Contemporary Music and Spirituality John WheatleyManchester: John McCabe's Cello Concerto Tim MottersheadLiverpool, Metropolitan Cathedral: Tavener's ‘Requiem’ Paul ConwayFurther reviews John Wheatley and Tim Mottershead

scholarly journals Dissonant Harmony and “Seed-Tones”

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael K. Trinastic
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Piano Music ◽  
New Music ◽  
Harmonic Series ◽  
Spiritual Discipline ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
American Composer ◽  
Interval Cycles ◽  
Musical Sounds

French-American composer Dane Rudhyar’s (1895–1985) vision of dissonance as a spiritual discipline was profoundly influential upon American ultra-modernist composers in the 1920s and ’30s. Rudhyar’s own compositions manifest his theoretical ideas, which revolve around a mystical conception of Tone as the totality of all possible musical sounds. His prose reveals several interrelated methods of creating Tone: using the piano’s sounding board as a gong, employing dissonant harmony (relating pitches by geometric relationships, which manifest as interval cycles), applying “the new sense of space” (beginning from wholeness, which requires equal divisions of the octave), and creating organic forms by basing each composition on a “seed-tone” (a dissonant tonic sonority). Rudhyar’s theoretical writings suggest two compatible methods of constructing seed-tones: building quintal sonorities (which exemplify dissonant harmony in Rudhyar’s theory) and employing “interpenetrating harmonic series.” These two methods facilitate the identification of seed-tones and their elaborations in Rudhyar’s piano music. Schenkerian-style graphs accompany detailed analyses of two of Rudhyar’s piano pieces: “Stars” and the first movement of Granites. Rudhyar’s seed-tones may suggest new analytic perspectives for other post-tonal repertoire. In addition, Rudhyar’s connection of dissonance with spirituality serves as a reminder that many early-twentieth-century pioneers in atonality and dodecaphony perceived a numinousness in this new music.

Record Reviews

Tempo ◽  
1997 ◽  
pp. 53-70
Keyword(s):  
Life Story ◽  
Piano Music ◽  
List Type

Roberto Gerhard's ‘Duenna’ Antony ByeMaxwell Davies's last Strathclydes John WamabyBarrett, Finnissy, Payne on NMC Julian AndersonOliver Knussen on DG David DentonBurrell, Woolrich, White, Gordon Michael OliverAndriessen's ‘De Materie’ David WrightThomas Adès's Life Story on EMI David DentonBritish Symphonists Guy RickardsSony's ligeti Edition David BassMarek and Kelterborn Peter PalmerParry's Piano Music Tristram PuginBuxton Orr's Trios Mark DoranMalipiero Quartets John CG Waterhouse

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