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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