MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
John Tavener: Palintropos
Outstanding interpretation of revelatory tone poem
INTENSE INTERPRETATION: Aruhi
New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
A FLOCK Ascending is a relatively new independent classical label created by composer, pianist and writer Michael Stewart and its aim is to reflect new emerging talent and the best in contemporary classical music.
John Tavener, who Stewart studied composition with in the 1970s, remains very much at the forefront of that thinking.
His Palintropos for piano and orchestra, composed in 1978, was commercially unrecorded for over 41 years. Tavener conceived the work on the Greek island of Patmos and it came to him in one day at the spot where where St John is believed to have received the divine revelation.
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