John Amis online

"Mummy, who is that man standing in front of the orchestra having a public fit"? And how important is what we see the man on t...

Brilliant Production I have long considered the six symphonies of Martin ů to be neglected masterpieces and would prefer to salute his m...

As we know, Benjamin Britten composed with favourite artists in mind, singers especially. Naturally, Peter Pears had the lion's share ...

Tognetti Still Going Strong Once upon a time string orchestras were thick on the ground here: there was Boyd Neel, Reginald Jacques, ...

Messiaen and Mahler It has been Deutschland Ü ber Alles this week at the Proms. Two evenings with the Berlin Phil and on Sunday (Sept...

There is a Brit lady called Pippa Pavlik and she organizes a festival of concerts called Musique Cordiale in the NW of Var; itself a part o...

What a mixture were the life and works of Leonard Bernstein! Conductor –composer, 'straight' music – popular, homosexual – hetero. f...

What would Harry Wood have said at the news that Ivor Novello's Lilacs were to be gathered during a whole Promenade concert in the Roy...

Prussia Cove Chamber Music The International Musicians Seminar, Prussia Cove, gave a concert on 21 July in the Wigmore Hall to celebrate ...

Curate's Egg Productions Good casting, fine finging, chorus and orchestra excellent backed up by the conductor – so, complete satisfa...

BRITTEN THIN ON THE GROUND JUNE 9 – 24 Imagine the Salzburg Festival where the only Mozart performed is E ine Kleine Nachtmusik and a gr...

Jolly Glyndebourne Entertainment The Fairy Queen is a hybrid, a semi-opera and it was first seen at Glyndebourne in 2009 on the occasi...

Les Troyens au Jardin de Couvent Berlioz despaired of ever seeing his darling Cassandra on the stage. We Brits have done him proud at Cov...

For several decades Lina Lalandi was a force in music. When I first came across her in the fifties she was a harpsichordist. She had a mass ...

On Monday 25 June I had a major experience I did not expect; the most sumptuous orchestral sound I have ever heard in my life. It was at an ...

Was the composer John Ireland a petit maître? True, his songs and piano pieces are the best of him, and he composed no operas or symphonies....

Grange Park Opera's repertoire is down this season to just three works: Idomeneo /Mozart, Queen of Spades /Tchaikovsky and Madama Butter...

Sam Philips, Chris Wines, Louise Fryer and John Amis - BBC Radio 3 July 3rd 2012 Listen to it on the BBC Radio 3 iplayer online. http:/...

On July 3, BBC Radio 3 will honour Dr John Amis, presenting a two and a half hour programme with him, carefully selected by the production t...