Music & Vision articles by Keith Bramich
The Zodiac Trio. '... young wine, already highly palatable ...'
Christmas music from the Brass Band of Battle Creek. '... bewitchingly subtle touches of colour ...'
Christmas choral music from Arsys Bourgogne. '... a well-recommended stocking-filler ...'
Ioana Osoianu talks to Keith Bramich about her life in the East and West
Robert Hugill's 'Passion'. '... a very distinctive soundworld ...'
Celebrating his ninetieth birthday today, Wilfrid Mellers talks to Keith Bramich
The Naxos Book of Carols. 'A delightful and magnificent stocking-filler!'
Keith Bramich at a performance by Tamami Honma and friends
The Finchley Choral Society Centenary Concert
Keith Bramich takes in the GRM Experience at Amsterdam's Frascati Theater
Tamami Honma's Wigmore Hall solo recital début
Keith Bramich at the twenty-first Presteigne Festival of Music and the Arts
Keith Bramich at the Vale of Glamorgan Festival of Music 2003
Catching up on some classical music websites
Keith Bramich listens to early Beethoven from the Miller Piano Quartet
Music on the Croatian islands of Vis and Bisevo
Keith Bramich enjoys two concerts at the 2003 Dubrovnik Summer Festival
Gilles Apap's new Bach and Mozart CD
The Dvorák Day Concert
Piers Adams' group Red Priest amazes Keith Bramich
Keith Bramich listens to the piano music of Uña Ramos
Keith Bramich listens to contemporary chamber music by Mark Warhol
Chamber music by John McCabe
The music of Irish composer Raymond Deane
Orchestral favourites of Japan. '... the traditional songs of fishermen, miners and pack-horse drivers ...'
The Bach Collegium Japan performance of the St John Passion
The London trumpet sound
Listening to Japanese composer Akio Yashiro. '... good performances and a clear recording.'
Remembering the Holocaust
Alice McVeigh's 'All Risks Musical'
Keith Bramich encounters the music of Phill Niblock, Philip Corner and Richard Lainhart
Eri Niiyama gives a recital in Tokyo's Suntory Hall, and Keith Bramich listens
Concert works by film composers, played by the New Art Trio and
Keith Bramich takes a fresh look at the world of classical music online
Keith Bramich listens to 'Yellowstone' for violin and orchestra by Jett Hitt
Tobias Ringborg plays music by Roman, and Keith Bramich listens
Keith Bramich ponders on the art of the conductor, and attends the 2002 Donatella Flick Conducting Competition
Keith Bramich listens to the 95% post consumer sound of Ellen Band
Keith Bramich listens to the bassoon virtuoso Gwydion Brooke
Walton, Sainsbury and Stanford at the Three Choirs Festival
Keith Bramich samples D'Divaz
Keith Bramich listens to another disc from crossover group Univers Zero
Keith Bramich introduces a new feature at Music & Vision
Keith Bramich is impressed by Lionel Sainsbury's Twelve Preludes
English composer Lionel Sainsbury talks to Keith Bramich
Keith Bramich visits new classical music websites: Fasolt, L'education musicale, the New Classical Portal, Musica Paraguaya, Classical Notes, Kipling settings, Sharma Musicals, Brandon Sturiale, Zeynep Ucbasaran and Beauty in Music
Keith Bramich enjoys I Fagiolini's performances of English and Italian music, old and new
Keith Bramich listens to contemporary music on the Vienna Modern Masters label
Keith Bramich comes face to face with the singing animals
with Keith Bramich
In another visit to the world of classical music websites, Keith Bramich muses on competition and diversity, and visits the websites of Salvador Clofent, Jan Hart, Duane Peck, A Gioele Simonetto, Bristol Music Services and Japanese composer Tsutomu Tagashira
A Japanese 'Riverdance'? Keith Bramich (with simultaneous translation by Yuri Izawa) experiences the four thousand strong spectacle of 'Sleeping King - the promise of love with a true heart'
Beautiful and convincing. Music by Piero Milesi for films, installations, water and fireworks. '... three boats move gently upstream, the river bridges providing natural boundaries between and barriers for the different sonorities ...'
Crossover experience. The Sirius String Quartet's gig with some sonic criminals is observed from a safe distance
Ludwig's torso ... another visit to the world of music websites
Transmogrifier of sounds. Electro-acoustic music by Kjartan Ólafsson
Crawling wind. Keith Bramich listens to a rare 1970s hybrid.
Raw and powerful. Keith Bramich's first impressions of the music of Sofia Gubaidulina
American spiritual. Marilyn Nonken plays new piano works written for her
all change!
Being truthful to the music. Chenyin Li, the young Chinese winner of the 2001 Scottish International Piano Competition, talks to Keith Bramich about experiences, East and West
Galactic timelessness. Keith Bramich listens to planets, old and new
Heart-rending sounds. Music for trombone and orchestra by Takemitsu
cultural enlightenment
M&V's monthly visit to the world of online music investigates the 'avant-garde'
In memory. Keith Bramich reports on a McCabe première, given as part of Japan 2001
It's all online ...
Keith Bramich visits Wales for the opening concert of the 2001 Presteigne Festival
Keith Bramich listens to soprano Anya Szreter in London's Regent Hall
M&V's monthly visit to the world of online music
Opus pocus - have you seen these sites?
More musical websites from classical cyberspace
Flautist Kathryn Thomas in conversation
Lilacs. '... interesting and imaginative music ... professional and committed throughout.' The music of American composer George Walker
Islamey and friends - discoveries and re-discoveries
M&V's monthly visit to the world of online music
Linking with Plymouth, plus a sneak preview of M&V's new links page
The cabbage patch - more readers' suggestions
Silver discs - record labels online
Snow White and the 7th Virus - websites recommended by our readers
Special collections - the top 10 websites of February 2000
Slice searching? A bizarre way to make sense of the net
more 2000 top websites
Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001), and more top websites
Music & Vision's monthly visit to the world of online music
50 of the best. Top websites revisited
Passion of Scrooge. A stereoscopic, circle surround Christmas Carol
An eye and an ear
Best advantage - the first of a new occasional series of visits to the online world of classical music
British composer Leonard Salzedo died on 6 May
(website news) - find out about choirs and choral music on the net
(website news) - classical music email newsletters
(website news) - pointers to places on the web with interesting folk music content
(website news) - This week we look at humorous music websites - are there any here you don't know?
Online concert listings (revisited)
Jansons' protest; Offenbach critical edition (news from the music world)
Donatella Flick Conducting Competition; Tobias Picker; Top 50 classical music websites (news from the music world)
Music Website News 2000
21st century composers
Ten angry men; Teach in Cyprus (news from the music world)
the world wide web of opera
Gulda dead; Sphinx; Serafino; Javelin; Profitable arts? (news from the music world)
helping you to find composers on the web
Philip Jones - one of the kindest people; Music begins where speech stops; Cybergrass and the Vienna Philharmonic; Candle dancing; Really more useful (news from the music world)
with details of various types of music software - sequencers, music OCR programs and toys and applets.
Bach SOS; Changes in Stockholm; Leuven award; Bach to Zappa; Fretwork signs with harmonia mundi (news from the music world)
taking a listen to some Real Audio files.
The start of another new series at Music & Vision which takes a look at a couple of possible Millennium bug problems.
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
Is there anything under our Christmas tree for you?
Music website news, which features playing music for the global community, online music magazines, Millennium Stage, a competition and a contest for composers, The London Sinfonietta, The Magnificent Master, Ali Wood, Is it cool or hot?, Valeri Dimchev and humour from New Zealand
Soprano Gré Brouwenstijn has died
Gregynog Composers Award
Music website news, including streaming BBC Radio Three, Classical beginnings, The Belgrade Cultural Centre Music Programme, The Australian Voices, Flynn's Trinity, Wingroove, Egroups and an opera jamboree.
Music website news, including musical orgies at WHRB, Met opera broadcasts, EMJ on-line, Melody Assistant, the Dutch Schubert Foundation, Erudito, Carlos Kleiber and Animals' Christmas.
The Word of the Day; Pettersson, Lidholm and Stenhammar; Living Music; Festival of Love (Forthcoming concert information)
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 are all featured this week.
World première webcast; Grimes on Bartok Radio; Classics and lasers (Forthcoming concert information)
A variety of conductors; Ten-day tour (Forthcoming concert information)
Unbound and bounden; Palm Sunday (Forthcoming concert information)
This week's music website news features language and pitch, Dutch links, soprano Rebekkah Graves, Operabase, Bridge Records, the Internet Movie Database, ARC Music, Ebenezer Prout and Bach
This week's music website news includes information about 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 ...
Scholars of Cambrai; Montsalvatge; Yehuda Kanar recital; Uppsala Choral Symphony
News from the expanding world of classical music - including Classics Today, Somm Recordings, Clarinets, Fuzeau and Oriana, Piano Passion, Elysian Singers, Straussian Origins and waiting for Finlandia ...
Canticum; Scholars of Cambrai; Montsalvatge; Yehuda Kanar recital; Uppsala Choral Symphony
Gabriel Erkoreka; A Celebration Carol for the Millennium
The Emerald Isle
Elliott's final bow; Naxos award; Circles; Art song in Boston; Barcelona phoenix; Baroque oboe workshop; Recording Fests in 2000
This week on the web, we visit Digital Ear, Visual Orchestra, composer lists, 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!
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?
Sky Maze with Song Shards; Del Cuarto Elemento
Meteor Showers
Beethoven discovery; Tansman competition
Orchestre de Douai; Norwegian Nationals
Georg Tintner is dead; Richard Strauss Edition; Career services
This week we investigate various novelties - computer music toys, programs and downloadable music gadgets
Flame of Wrath; Albright Tributes; Tallis Scholars; Song at St John's; Transformation; English Fancie Camarada; The Sixteen in sixteen cathedrals
MOODS - science helps music; Chuench'i; José Serebrier; Gillian Weir in Chinese; Fong plays Cage; Moulin Rouge
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
Mosaic 8
Budapest 1999/2000; Tonhalle Düsseldorf; Musicatreize; Galliard Ensemble
Composer John McCabe talks to the Chief Music Critic of the Birmingham Post, Christopher Morley
Composer John McCabe talks to the Chief Music Critic of the Birmingham Post, Christopher Morley
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
John M Thomson is dead; Arts Centre for Beijing; New releases from ASC
Composer John McCabe talks to the Chief Music Critic of the Birmingham Post, Christopher Morley
Alfredo Kraus is dead; Bernstein Center aquired by NARAS
Destined for greatness; Vanishing Point 1.1; BBC Concert Orchestra; Kathryn Thomas and Neil Crossland; Oxford Contemporary Music
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
Composer John McCabe talks to the Chief Music Critic of the Birmingham Post, Christopher Morley
Composer John McCabe talks to the Chief Music Critic of the Birmingham Post, Christopher Morley
Music website news, including our new Announce ! service, Australian Music Resources, Catalan composers, Andrys Basten's music pages, Duologue, Havergal Brian and the Hibernian Prima Donna
Composer John McCabe talks to the Chief Music Critic of the Birmingham Post, Christopher Morley
Composer John McCabe talks to the Chief Music Critic of the Birmingham Post, Christopher Morley
Further news from the continuing Presteigne Festival in Wales
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)
Scriabin in the Himalayas
News from the continuing Presteigne Festival in Wales
Presteigne Festival composer in residence John McCabe talks to the Chief Music Critic of the Birmingham Post, Christopher Morley
Keith Bramich introduces our six day visit to the Presteigne Festival of Music and the Arts
Music festivals revisited, including information about Music & Vision's visit to the Presteigne Festival, which begins on Thursday
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Music website news - Music Web Hunter; Music feeds my soul; New Film Front; Phenomenal bass player; Hidingplace; Do you have a clean record?
Composers on the web
Choirs and Choral Music
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
Music website news - free offers, including CDs, sheet music and software
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.
Concerts at BMIC; Poems, Pictures and Memories of Russia
Britten and Scotland Yard
You are invited to give your views on this magazine
Latin American Colonial Music; A Tale of Three Cities
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
Music website news, featuring 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.
Keith Bramich consults the 1999 European Music Directory
Music website news
Choral Music Symposium; Mardi Gras Manchester; La Guitarra California
Rimini percussionists; Uppsala Kammarsolister; Butterflies in Milan; Musica Mundi; Voces Sacrae; Gilbert and Sullivan world première;
Music website news
Americas Vocal Ensemble composition competition winners
A list of works featured in Music & Vision's first six months
Beethoven reconstruction
Music website news
St. Paul section leaders; Satellite opera; Internet Music Delivery Deal
Music website news
Music website news
Music website news
Music website news
Music website news
Music website news
Music website news
Opera on the web
Music website news
An A-Z of music websites (part 3)
Keith Bramich replies to Peter Billam and Basil Ramsey
University music departments and scholarly music sites
Avril Ngaire Poisson and Europe
An A-Z of music websites (part 2)
Music Glossaries
An A-Z of music websites (part 1)
Igor Kipnis
Folk Music
MIDI File Wars!
Music Festivals
Music mailing lists
Music newsgroups - a closer look at rec.music.classical
today we visit some composers' collectives
Music newsgroups
Today we investigate on-line concert listing services.
Keith Bramich begins a regular column Site Seeing which explores the expanding world of music websites.
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