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Gabriel Prokofiev: Concerto for Turntable rocks the RSNO The grandson of one of the 20th century’s eminent composers, Sergei Prokofiev, is due to take classical music into the ...

Imagining the Future Complete control: Jerry Gerber writes grand-scale scores for virtual orchestras.

15 Questions to Johannes Maria Staud Contemporary composers often have to deal with an image of grumpy young man feeding on a diet of too much ...

Impersonal Revelations Important questions: Olivia Block's trilogy of miraculous snow mountain symphonies.

15 Questions to Michael Blake To Michael Blake, composing is not just the process of placing notes on a piece of paper. It is a ...

Kenneth Gaburo: An influential Thinker awaits posthumous Breakthrough Pogus are paying tribute to a man some call “an undersung hero with a profound influence on a generation of ...

Bebe Barron: First lady of electronic music dies aged 82 American electroacoustic composer Barry Schrader has reported on the death of his colleague Bebe Barron. Barron, a pioneering, widely respected ...

CD Feature/ William Stalnaker: "About Lear and Others" Rhythmic elation: William Stalnaker is a happy child of the Avantgarde.

Col Legno Festival: New Music Academy Austrian Label Col Lengo is taking the leap from releasing records to curating concerts by organising their first festival. Idylically ...

Anthony Braxton: Ghost Trance Music explained Anthony Braxton is doing his fans a great favour by not only releasing an album yet again dedicated to the ...

CD Feature/ Rebecca Saunders: "Stirrings Still" Silence as an arena: Saunders challenges your notion of what an instrument can do, but also takes sound to a ...

The Tonality of Broken Ropes Hidden meanings in sound: Noone will be able to follow sound pioneer Pierre Henry all the way.

CD Feature/ Krzysztof Penderecki: "Symphony No. 8" A chance within the dilemma: Penderecki has arrived at a style of transcendental story telling.

CD Feature/ Annette vande Gorne: "Exils" Never seperates text from context: Vande Gorne uses the human voice as an orchestra.

CD Feature/ Donald Bousted: "A Journey among Travellers" Pleasantly unforseable serpentines: An imaginatively conceived, creatively arranged and passionately realised work for two recorders.