1999 CONTENTS
Major articles and features:
Harmony - functional and dysfunctional
- Professor Mellers has a reputation for writing about music with exceptional
perception. We are delighted that a new study of harmony in its development
during the 19th century has been written for our opening issues.
Aspects of Vision - by Gillian
Weir. The first of a series by great performers of our time revealing their
own perceptions about the power of music.
Pianos & Pianists - Consultant
Editor Ates Orga
Other 1999 articles, in chronological order of publication, most recent
first:
- Rejected Reviews or, works
that got away - 6. Bruckner's Cabaret Songs
- Record Box - Odd bedfellows
- Partsongs for all seasons
- Looking in all directions
- To mark a whole year's worth of Site Seeing articles, we look
both forwards and backwards, inwards and outwards, at Attacca!, Klassieklinks,
contemporary music on tour, the San Diego Symphony, St Martin-in-the-fields,
and an entire list of Wilfrid Mellers' articles at Music & Vision
- Music and Media - an article
by American composer Jerry Gerber
- The Rightness of Gurney
- On the birthday of English composer and poet Ivor Gurney, Roderic Dunnett
examines Gurney the Musician
- Season's greetings - Is there
anything under our Christmas tree for you?
- Rejected Reviews or, works
that got away - 5. Schoenberg's Rhapsody on Greensleeves
- Record Box - Liquid fire
- comparing the two Haydns, and The power of tradition - Iceland's church
music
- Site Seeing - playing music
for the global community, online music magazines, Millennium Stage, Pastiche,
The London Sinfonietta, The Magnificent Master, Ali Wood, Is it cool or
hot?, Valeri Dimchev and humour from New Zealand.
- Safely Grazing - A Japanese
notebook - some of it musical, with composer Adrian Williams
- CD Spotlight - Flemish Exploration
- Robert Anderson listens to a little-known 'family'
- Rejected Reviews or, works
that got away - 4. The A.E. Housman settings of Elgar, Smyth and Boulez
- Record Box - From Puerto
Rico - another voice, and My Dancing Day - carolling from Windsor
- Site Seeing - streaming
BBC Radio Three, Classical beginnings, The Belgrade Cultural Centre Music
Programme, The Australian Voices, Flynn's Trinity, Wingroove, Egroups and
an opera jamboree.
- Throwing the first black flower
- David Wilkins experiences Wroclaw State Opera's Traviata
- A composer across the century
- Gordon Rumson writes about Leo Ornstein, a composer about to celebrate
his 105(?)th birthday
- Rejected Reviews or, works
that got away - 3. Messiaen's ballet-music The Wind in the Willows
- Record Box - On the uplift
- The quest for noble hymn tunes
- Site Seeing - Musical orgies
at WHRB, Met opera broadcasts, EMJ on-line, Melody Assistant, the Dutch
Schubert Foundation, Erudito, Carlos Kleiber and Animals' Christmas
- Operas without cliché
- Malcolm Miller in conversation with Richard Bradshaw, General Music Director
of the Canadian Opera Company
- Rejected Reviews or, works
that got away - 2. Wagner's String Trio
- Record Box - Joyrides
- The American way
- Site Seeing - Stars of World
Music, with Daniel Rowe
- Editor's Inbox - A Panselinos
writes to Basil Ramsey
- Opera Ontario into the millennium
- A profile of Canada's largest regional opera company by Malcolm Miller
- CD Spotlight - Oxbridge
- Basil Ramsey listens to choirs from both cities
- Rejected Reviews or, works
that got away - Trevor Hold has dragged from oblivion some music you
will not know. 1. Brahms's opera Tom Jones
- Record Box - Real rapport
- Martinu & chamber ensemble
- Site Seeing - Famous people
with perfect pitch, the Institute for Cultural Memory, the Centro Sammarinese
Studi Musicali, a large musical theatre site, Denis ApIvor, courtly love
and Guillaume de Machaut, historic instruments and the top 14 worst operas
- The Sound of Spaces - An
investigation by composer and sound installation artist Jeff Talman
- By the way ... - More voices
from the pit
- Record Box - Intensity
- Medieval Motets
- Site Seeing - language
and pitch, Dutch links, soprano Rebekkah Graves, Operabase, Bridge Records,
the Internet Movie Database, ARC Music, Ebenezer Prout and Bach
- CD Spotlight - Rain Waves -
Peter Dickinson reviews concertos by Bond, Ott and Tower
- CD Spotlight - Inspiring
admiration - Robert Anderson examines Cherubini's quartets
- Peter Grimes in Budapest
- Roderic Dunnett reports from the Hungarian capital
- Record Box - Steals on the
ear - Christmas sounds are back
- Site Seeing - making your
own CD in Moscow, more sheet music sites, Classic Vinyl, UK Sounds, the
daily review race, American composer P. Kellach Waddle and a virus warning
...
- CD Spotlight - Shades of
Yo-Yo Ma? Ann Bond reviews a new CD of Bach's Gamba Sonatas
- CD Spotlight - Magnificent
and Aweful. Peter Dale considers Messiaen's impact on the ear
- The Architecture of Dreams
- Roderic Dunnett reports on the recent activities of Elgar authority Jerrold
Northrop Moore
- Record Box - Intentions
- Exceptional CDs from Sweden
- Site Seeing - Classics
Today, Somm Recordings, Clarinets, Fuzeau and Oriana, Piano Passion, Elysian
Singers, Straussian Origins and waiting for Finlandia ...
- The sound of music - Richard
Fidler on seeing and hearing at concerts
- CD Spotlight - His own
man. Reconsidering Rutland Boughton, with Peter Dale
- CD Spotlight - A dramatic
musical imagination. Patric Standford listens to orchestral music by Javier
Montsalvatge.
- La Gloire - Roderic Dunnett
writes about Berlioz' Grande Messe des Morts
- Listening to the soul's echo
- Roderic Dunnett on Tippett's opera King Priam
- Record Box - The Tuba in
company - Brass in light-hearted mood
- Site Seeing - The Emerald
Isle
- Glories of Wexford - Roderic
Dunnett reports from the continuing Opera Festival
- Record Box - The Irish approach
- Music from a Dublin cathedral
- Site Seeing - This week
on the web, we visit Digital Ear, Visual Orchestra, lists of composers,
UK Sounds, the Internet Cello Society, the New York Philharmonic, the Eastern
Virginia Medical School, Magazines at DMOZ and Yahoo, and ugly CD covers
... we also discover America's latest fitness craze!
- Going Danish - Shirley Ratcliffe
is entertained by dacapo
- Power and Grandeur - Gordon
Rumson investigates the music of Wilfrid Mellers
- By the way ... - Verdi's
full house
- Record Box - Gracefully
formed - the world of Franz Krommer
- Site Seeing - Another
look at music internet sites, including how to find CD reviews, the Serafino
Trio, Pierre Monteux, the Prism Quartet, Amazing Music World, Bridgewater
Hall, Stefan Wolpe and Singing, vocals and songwriting ... and what is
a symphony in URL minor?
- CD Spotlight - Stringent
economy. Satie's ballets discussed by Wilfrid Mellers in the light of a
new recording.
- By the way ... - Voices
from the pit
- Record Box - Pale reflections
- a Siberian composer of the past
- Site Seeing - Computer music
toys - novelties, programs and downloadable music gadgets
- CD Spotlight - Delicate dramatic
sense. Eric Van Tassel listens to Juliane Banse singing Schumann lieder
- By the way ... - A tight-laced
soprano
- Record Box - Musical appetites
- another composer restored to life
- Site Seeing - This week's
visit to other music internet sites includes Soundpost, New mailing lists,
More Root from Tubb, The Concert Choir of New Orleans, Guia for free and
Nambe Editions
- CD Spotlight - Time and
Space. Chorales as treated by Bach - newly recorded
- Record Box - The small
legacy. Taking note of Alfredo Casella
- Site Seeing - Another delve
into the varied musical diet available at some of our neighbouring websites,
including Bridge over the web, the Netherlands Radio Boys Choir, Wolfmusic
Productions, clients of Denise Meyer, an affair with classical music, distance-learning
in French, MusicArrangers.com, the Club Abbadiani Itineranti and the Kennedy
interview
- A composer of genius - Andrew
Thomson explores the music of the neglected French composer Charles Tournemire
- John Mansfield Thomson
- An appreciation by Eric Van Tassel
- Record Box - Levels of
Invention. Martinu's way with voices
- Site Seeing - Music website
news, including Guildford Cathedral Choir, the Conductor's Domain, the
Classical Free-reed, Women in music, Classical Composer Biographies, Player
Care, Mallard Music, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and the Enemies of Classical
Music
- The Mini-master - Wilfrid
Mellers reviews a comprehensive new study of Satie
- Record Box - As one. Early
music with charisma.
- Site Seeing - Music website
news, including Australian Music Resources, Catalan composers, Helsinki
Strings, Andrys Basten's music pages, Duologue, Havergal Brian and the
Hibernian Prima Donna
- CD Review - The Shellwood
Series - Peter Dickinson shares his enthusiasm for a new record label based
on historical popular music
- CD Review - Flights of
imagination - Robert Anderson listens to Raff symphonies
- Site Seeing - Music website
news, including the Alexander Technique Information Source, Frank Martin,
Automatic links at the WWW Virtual Library, MIDI World, Green Tiger Music,
the Helsinki Strings, CDs online, the D3 Music Learning Network and Classical
Music on the Web (UK)
- McCabe in Conversation
- Presteigne Festival composer in residence John McCabe talks to the Chief
Music Critic of the Birmingham Post, Christopher Morley
- CD Review - Landscape Artist
- Three orchestral works by John McCabe on CD
- A vacation in Welsh border
country - Keith Bramich introduces our six day visit to the Presteigne
Festival of Music and the Arts
- CD Review - Musical virtues
- Paul Adrian Rooke discovers the string quartets of John McCabe
- Site Seeing - Music festivals
revisited
- Survey - If you have a
couple of minutes to spare, please help us by giving us some feedback.
- CD Review - The Bayreuth
bark - Eric Van Tassel listens to Ludwig Weber
- Site Seeing Special - Choirs
and Choral Music
- CD Review - Sustaining Power
- A Czech composer of yesteryear, considered by Basil Ramsey
- Site Seeing - Music website
news - Music Web Hunter; Music feeds my soul; New Film Front; Phenomenal
bass player; Hidingplace; Do you have a clean record?
- CD Review - Widening the
scope - Trevor Hold discusses John Ireland's songs in the light of a new
recording
- Site Seeing Special -
Composers on the web
- CD Review - Larger than
life - Ann Bond examines the first of a new Buxtehude series
- Site Seeing - Music website
news - Musique Ancienne; the Dead conductors page; What is the COE?; Net
Notes; La Scena Musicale; Ring for early music; Leamington Winter Season;
Golden Sections
- CD Review - A Folk-Oratorio
- Robert Anderson listens to a new CD of neglected Schumann
- Book Review - Keith Bramich
consults the 1999 European Music Directory
- CD Review - Canticle setting
and singing - Basil Ramsey listens to a living tradition on record
- Site Seeing - Music website
news - free offers, including CDs, sheet music and software
- A Survivor's Guide to 20th century
music - a fast-track graduation course in making your peace with the
music of our time and in sweeping the house clean for the next millennium
- CD Review - A Prince amongst
composers - Monteverdi and the voice of Maria Cristina Kiehr
- Promming - Basil Ramsey
reminds everybody of the unique music festival that takes over in London
every summer
- Site Seeing - Music website
news, featuring Blue Snow, Roger Deneuville, Jean-Pierre Rampal, John McHugh,
Claude Vivier, MA Recordings, Violin Books and Autographs, Guitars Alive
in the 21st Century and Mac's Maddening Musical Mind Mangler.
- A long and difficult road
- Denis ApIvor's music remains little known and unrecorded. Gordon Rumson
pleads his case
- CD Review - Fever of excitement
- Robert Anderson examines Berlioz' Requiem in a new recording
- Pen to Paper - Back to
the drawing board with Basil Ramsey
- Survey - You are invited
to give your views on this magazine
- Site Seeing - Music website
news - a shamelessly British edition, featuring One Wedding and a Funeral,
Tubalaté, Janácek's Brno at Royal Holloway and The Band That
Money Couldn't Buy
- The Ride - Basil Ramsey
recounts one way of facing disaster with a composer
- CD Review - Listening
well - Basil Ramsey invites you to discover that Samuel Barber wrote more
than one work
- CD Review - Patric Standford
listens to music by Poul Ruders
- CD Review - Mirror image
- Basil Ramsey introduces a CD that concludes a series devoted to the organ
music of Herbert Howells
- Editorial musings - with
Basil Ramsey
- Site Seeing - Music website
news - books from New Delhi, inventor Manfred Clynes, Symphonic Workshops,
I Fiati di Parma, GMN, New World Records, Arts and Letters Daily and the
Millennium Whistling Championships
- CD Review - Alfvén:
Symphony No.3 - Peter Lundin compares recordings
- CD Review - An independent
spirit - Patric Standford considers a new Chavez CD
- Joaquín Rodrigo, 1901
- 1999 - The famous Valencian composer died on 6th July
- Holding on - Basil Ramsey
writes a second coda to composer neglect
- Site Seeing - Music website
news, including Audience, NewMusicBox, the International Chamber
Ensemble, Carson Kievman, Classical Corner and Free CD Corner
- Backwaters - Basil Ramsey
extends his survey of composer neglect
- Shining Out - On American
Independence Day, Basil Ramsey recalls a special composer
- CD Review - Lifting the veil
- Recent recordings of John Tavener considered by Basil Ramsey
- Voting for composers - Basil
Ramsey considers the outcome of our two recent polls
- Site Seeing - Music website
news, featuring Net Instruments, The Sixteen, Ensemble die reihe, Classical
Search, Cognitive Psychology and Music, Rarely-heard American music, Jammin'
in Jeans, WBJC Baltimore, U-Play music, Quotations and Aphorisms.
- A cluster of talents - John
McCabe's musical contribution as seen by Basil Ramsey
- CD Review - Players coming
and going - Dvorák rarities on record considered by Robert Anderson
- Special Offer - Purchase
CDs on-line from the Crotchet webstore
- New CD release information
- Browse the latest classical music CDs
- CD Reviews - A list of
works featured in Music & Vision's first six months
- By the way ... - Viola Players
- CD Review - Three Choirs
in single file, with Basil Ramsey
- Site Seeing - Music website
news - The Man Who Would Be Scarbo, Classical Net, St Petersburg, JL Publishing,
Jun'ichi Hirokami, Glyndebourne, Bach 2000 projects, Fabrizio Ferrari,
Winnie Wilson Goree, Judith Lang Zaimont and Opera Classics
- A Chorister at War - Grayston
Burgess looks back to Canterbury and Cornwall
- The Langstroth Enigma -
Basil Ramsey remembers ...
- By the way ... - A Murderous
Lyricist
- CD Review - Matthias Ronnefeld's
I hear the Drummers strike the Sky, with Patric Standford
- Site Seeing - Music website
news - Classical Online Radio, Opera Magazine, the British Library National
Sound Archive, Sviatoslav Richter, George Kennaway, Holland Festival of
Early Music Utrecht, Classical music tours, Acoustic Digest, Friedrich
Kuhlau and the Classical Music Community
- Book and CD Review - 'Baroque
Sound-Bites' with Wilfrid Mellers
- By the way ... - Roses of
Picardy
- A bonus for readers - Audio
enhancement software and other offers are now available
- Site Seeing - Music website
news - New Millennium Records, the Indian Musical Instruments Store, Carolina
Culture Connection, Codecs Compared, NMC Recordings and Elgar's 3rd Symphony,
the Canadian Musical Heritage Society, Keyboard Wizards, Musicians and
Injuries, Paris Opera - international bookings and The Flying Inkpot. Tell
us about your website.
- CD Review - MacMillan's
Easter Triptych, with Basil Ramsey
- You never know - Basil
Ramsey muses on organ playing
- Special offer - Obtain free
trial issues of various music magazines
- By the way ... - Molto
Dolente
- Winds of change - Some post-survey
thoughts by Basil Ramsey
- Site Seeing - Music website
news - Crescendo streaming MIDI, CustomDisc, Festival websites, Hudson
Valley Music, Recorded music from Sweden, Walden Hughes, Six Golden Rules
for Conquering Performance Anxiety, the Bluffer's Guide to Classical Music
and Just for Fun.
- Obituary - Paul Sacher's
death
- CD Review - Passacaglia
- organ music played by Paul Ayres
- CD Review - Kevin Bowyer
playing the organ of St Mary's Warwick
- CD Review - 'The last classicist'
- John Hayward-Warburton reviews a new Naxos disc of music by Hummel
- By the way ... - What's
in a Name - or Neyme?
- CD Review - 'Late Romanticism'
- Peter Dale ponders the music of Pizzetti
- James Blades - The grand
old man of British percussion has died, age 97
- Site Seeing - Music website
news - Amoris International, Musica Russica, Igor Kipnis at Mundo Clasico,
the Rawsthorne Trust, Ring Cycle literary sources and The future of classical
music?
- CD Review - 'Hidden Reflections'
- Patric Standford listens to two new CDs from the USA
- CD Review - 'The Gentleman'
- Wilfrid Mellers considers the songs of Thomas Campion
- By the way ... - First Verse
- Grave and Bubbly - Basil
Ramsey listens to early music at a festival
- Site Seeing - Music website
news - Gerard Schurmann, Film Music on The Web (UK), Transfer Guy, the
Medieval Music and Arts Foundation, Grateful Dead and Internet Radio
- CD Review - Tales from
Bentzon - Peter Dale listens to some little-known Danish chamber music
- The to-ing and fro-ing dance
- Basil Ramsey replies to David Arditti
- By the way ... - The Street-Singer
- Best-loved composers? -
David Arditti requests an alternative survey of composers. Includes a survey
of best-loved composers.
- Site Seeing - Music website
news - Ton Koopman, European Festival Network, Piano Resources, New Music
journal, Les Azuriales Opera Festival, OxRecs DIGITAL, Vision Festival
and Tjako van Schie
- CD Review - Some Folks
Do - Peter Dale listens to American Song on two new CDs
- A call to arms - Basil Ramsey
asks for your help with our 20th century composer survey
- CD Review - Northern and
Southern Quartets, with John Hayward-Warburton
- Site Seeing - Music website
news - For orchestrators, Malcolm Galloway and Kathryn Thomas, Mascagni,
T.I.S. Vocal Music Catalog, Cheryl Studer, The Classical Singer, Parnassus
Records, Portuguese Classical Music, Winterreise and Twin Cities
- CD Review - 'Nature and
Nurture' with Wilfrid Mellers
- By the way ... - Macabre
Dance
- David James in conversation
with Shirley Ratcliffe - The Journey to Mnemosyne
- Site Seeing - Opera on
the web
- CD Review - 'Then and Now'
- Villon to Rabelais with Wilfrid Mellers
- CD Review - John Hayward-Warburton
investigates two discs of 19th century chamber music for guitar
- Randall Thompson Centenary
- Peter Dickinson writes about Thompson's career
- Site Seeing - Music website
news - Doctoral Dissertations online, Music lessons, Early recordings,
Notation software, Mexican orchestras, Edinburgh Festival, Opera on the
web, San Francisco Classical Voice and No Hitler without Wagner
- CD Review - Rare Schubert,
with Gerald Fenech
- Book Review - Peter Dale
explores James Day's Englishness in Music
- By the way ... - In The Shadows
- CD Review - Robert Anderson
on The Eroica Quartet playing Mendelssohn
- William Pleeth - One of
Britain's most celebrated cellists died April 6th 1999.
- CD Review - Peter Dale reviewing
Rebel Violin Sonatas
- CD Review - Wilfrid Mellers
reviews a CD of Fibich symphonies
- Czech Music - Wilfrid Mellers
writes about Czech music, setting the scene for his CD review tomorrow
- By the way ... - The Real
Colonel Bogey
- Site Seeing - University
music departments and scholarly music sites
- Bob Auger - A great recording
engineer. An appreciation by Monica McCabe.
- Feature - Avril Ngaire
Poisson and Europe
- CD Review - Janácek's
Moravian folk poetry in Songs
- CD Review - Conviction -
Music for Men's Voices
- Fertile Soil - Editorial musings
with Basil Ramsey
- A 'Morceau' by Debussy
- Its strange history is explored by Richard Graves
- Editor's In-box - Basil
Ramsey explores more correspondence received by Music & Vision
- Letter to the Editor -
Peter Billam replies to Basil Ramsey
- CD Review - Rare Sibelius
with Gerald Fenech
- CD Review - Outstanding
Slav Passion with Gerald Fenech
- Site Seeing - Music Glossaries
- CD Review - Wilfrid Mellers
reviews a CD of Michael Finnissy playing his English Country Tunes
- CD Review - Peter Dickinson
on Elliott Carter
- CD Review - Music for three:
Piano trios
- Tony Palmer in conversation
with Shirley Ratcliffe - 1. In search of a scenario - 2. In search
of a title
- Site Seeing - An A-Z of
music
- Two Camps - Editorial
musings with Basil Ramsey
- CD Review - Strength, poise
and purity
- Yehudi Menuhin, an incredible
man of music - The internationally celebrated violinist died on March
12th
- CD Review - The Sweet
Smell of Success - our first review of the brilliant young German counter-tenor
Andreas Scholl
- CD Review - Old-fashioned
Mozart - another Karajan review from Gerald Fenech
- Site Seeing - Folk music
- Book Review - Gerald Fenech
reviews Richard Osborne's HERBERT VON KARAJAN: A Life in Music
- Natural Flow - Editorial musings
with Basil Ramsey
- CD Review - Gerald Fenech
reviews Karajan's recording of Balakirev and Roussel symphonies
- Fortunes of War - Editorial
musings with Basil Ramsey
- CD Review - Gerald Fenech
reviews Thomas Kalb's Vanhal symphonies
- Site Seeing - MIDI File
Wars!
- Amalgam - Stravinsky and
John Woolrich
- CD review - 'The greatest
American symphony'
- A Personal Tribute - Larry
Phelps
- Distressed Quartet - The
Juilliard in China
- 'After many a dusty mile'
- Basil Ramsey reads about Elgar the cyclist.
- Site Seeing - Music Festivals
- Buried - Editorial musings
with Basil Ramsey
- Dreadful silence - Editorial
musings with Basil Ramsey
- Turntable talk - Gerald
Fenech reviews Symposium Records' CD transfer of 1940s Toscanini recordings
- Site Seeing - Music mailing
lists
- Turntable talk - Echoes
and re-echoes - Basil Ramsey reviews Schubert's Nachtgesang
on Harmonia Mundi HMC 901669
- Editorial - How are we
doing?
- Turntable talk - Basil Ramsey
reviews Symposium Records' CD transfer of 1940s Moeran broadcasts
- Site Seeing - Music newsgroups
- a closer look at the newsgroup rec.music.classical
- Taking Strength - Editorial
musings with Basil Ramsey
- Jacques Chailley - Martin
Anderson's obituary
- Magic and Mystery - Shirley
Ratcliffe investigates the plots of three operas
- Russian Opera reviews -
John Bell Young explores the best in Slavic Song
- Site Seeing Special -
Music Newsgroups
- Anthony Scott - Editorial
musings with Basil Ramsey
- Robert Shaw - an obituary
- Aspects of Vision - by
Gillian Weir. The first of a series by great performers of our time revealing
their own perceptions about the power of music.
- Site Seeing - Mark Valencia
visits The Lied and Song Texts Page
- Past Impressions - 1 Bernard
Herrmann
- After Music - Editorial
musings from Basil Ramsey
- Now that's what I call 'contemporary'!
- Beverley Crew celebrates CMN's innovative 1999/2000 touring season
- Site Seeing - Composers'
Collectives
- GUIOMAR NOVAES - John Bell
Young takes a critical look at a two-CD survey of her studio and concert
recordings.
- CD Review - David Arditti
reviews a disc of music by Sullivan
- Site Seeing - On-line
concert listings
- Editorial Musings - with
Basil Ramsey
- Turntable talk - CDs of
music by Casella, Bach, Handel, Krebs, Mozart and Alan Gibbs
- Editor's In-box - Basil
Ramsey explores the correspondence received by Music & Vision
during its first two days
- Music Information Centres
- The first of our regular Site Seeing articles, reviewing music
websites
- Bien Cher Félix - Letters
from Olivier Messiaen & Yvonne Loriod to Felix Aprahamian - (book
review)
- Musical Offerings - Immediate
Sketches by Ed Hargrave - (book review)
- Music & Vision Fanfare - A new
fanfare commissioned especially for Music & Vision from Adrian
Williams.
- Peter Dickinson wishes Music &
Vision 'instant success'!
- Editor's Introduction - Basil
Ramsey introduces Music & Vision
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