Mike Wheeler
Mike Wheeler has been writing about music professionally, both programme notes and journalism, for twenty years. He has a BA (Hons) degree in music from Nottingham University, and is an adult education tutor for the WEA. He has also given pre-concert talks and presentations for recorded music societies. His interests and sympathies are very catholic, covering a wide range of periods, genres and styles, though he tends to regard twentieth-century British music (Elgar onwards) as a kind of home base.
Music & Vision articles by Mike Wheeler
Eisler, Gershwin, Mozart, Poulenc, Schumann and Weill from Katie Bray and William Vann
Mike Wheeler listens to Venetian pianist Alessandro Taverna
Handel's 'Messiah' from Derby Choral Union
Familiar and unfamiliar music from The Sitwell Singers
Derby Concert Orchestra celebrates Christmas
Mike Wheeler listens to Ensemble Viva play Schumann, Mendelssohn and Beethoven
The Piatti String Quartet
Derby Bach Choir's Christmas concert
Alexander Romanovsky plays Haydn and Rachmaninov
Jongen, Dukas, Fauré, Respighi and Messiaen from Jonathan Scott, Cristian Mandeal and the Hallé Orchestra
Elgar and Duruflé with a surprise soloist
The Eblana String Trio and David Curington at Derby Chamber Music
Will Todd's 'Mass in Blue'
Mozart and Shostakovich from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Tchaikovsky's 'The Queen of Spades'
James Baillieu plays Beethoven, Schumann, Gottschalk and Paganini via Liszt
The Hallé Orchestra plays Schubert, Dvorák and Beethoven
A piano recital by Richard Uttley
A mainly classical programme from Derby Concert Orchestra
Derby Cathedral Choir celebrates the anniversary of William Boyce
A visit from the Moscow Philharmonic
Mike Wheeler listens to Suk, Dvorák, Ravel and Debussy from the Hallé Orchestra in Nottingham
Enikö Magyar and Timothy End launch Derby Chamber Music's new season, and impress Mike Wheeler
Peter Litman plays the organs of Derby Cathedral
Mark-Anthony Turnage's 'Greek' at the Buxton Festival
Recitals on the organ at Derby Cathedral by Andrew Dewar, David Briggs and Anthony Hammond
Timothy Byram-Wigfield plays the organ at Derby Cathedral and
More from the Buxton Festival
Hans Hielscher at the organ of Derby Cathedral
Donizetti's 'Maria di Rohan' at the Buxton Festival
Hannah Yip's Derby Cathedral recital
Sinfonia Viva's summer schools' residency project, attended
The Royal Philharmonic's Gershwin celebration in Nottingham
Mike Wheeler was at Opera North's 'Fidelio'
Janácek's 'From the House of the Dead'
Rory Macdonald conducts the Hallé Orchestra
Alexei Stepanov conducts the Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra
Alison Balsom plays Hummel's Trumpet Concerto
Bach's 'St John Passion' from the Richard Roddis Singers
Mike Wheeler listens to Derby Choral Union
The Rivoli String Quartet
Mike Wheeler listens to the Hallé Orchestra in Liszt, Schumann and Brahms
The Derby Roundhouse debut as a concert hall, described
Lisa Friend and Mark Kinkaid in recital
Mike Wheeler listens to Strauss, Rimsky-Korsakov and Khachaturian from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Brahms and Stanford from The Sitwell Singers
Mike Wheeler listens to António Teixeira's Te Deum
Stephen Kovacevich plays Beethoven, Schumann and Bach
Mike Wheeler listens to Lucille Burns and Catherine Milledge
Mahler, Weber and Strauss at Derby Cathedral
Outreach work for Sinfonia Viva
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra plays Adams, Bernstein, Falla and Gershwin
Mieczyslaw Weinberg's 'The Portrait' at Opera North
Mike Wheeler listens to the Czech National Symphony Orchestra
The London Mozart Trio
Alexandra Dariescu plays Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin and Constantin Silvestri
Opera North's 'Carmen'
Mike Wheeler was at the Annual Conference of the Association of British Orchestras
Sinfonia Viva's performance at the 2011 Association of British Orchestras conference
The Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra
Nicola Benedetti and the European Union Chamber Orchestra
Haydn, Shostakovich and Beethoven from The Aves Quartet
Spanish pianist Javier Perianes plays Schubert, Chopin, Debussy and Falla
A Christmas offering from Derby Choral Union
Mike Wheeler listens to a reconstructed cantata by Neil Garland
Mike Wheeler listens to Handel's Messiah from Derby Cathedral
Christmas music from the Sitwell Singers
A recital by Michael Ierace
Mike Wheeler listens to Voices and the Derby Concert Orchestra
Benjamin Frith saves the day
Haydn's Creation
Mozart, Schubert and Weill
Derby Choral Union's Mozart Requiem
Britten's 'The Turn of the Screw'
Ensembles from the Royal Northern College of Music
The Derwent Singers
A recital by Lars Vogt
Richard Roddis and Beate Toyka perform Robert Schumann
The Sitwell Singers begin a new season
Mike Wheeler listens to a piano recital by Cordelia Williams
Music-making by Natalie Clein and Sinfonia Viva
More from the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra
A recital by Soojin Han and Tadashi Imai
Mike Wheeler listens to James Rippingale, Jonathan Trout and the Derby Concert Orchestra
Alena Baeva, Terje Mikkelsen and The Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio
Bax, Chopin and Prokofiev from Artur Pizarro, Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra
Bizet, Richard Strauss and Vaughan Williams from Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra
Bobby Chen launches Derby Chamber Music's new season
Tom Corfield plays Whitlock, Howells, Messiaen, Bach and Peeters
Peter Gould at the organ of Derby Cathedral
Daniel Hyde at the organ of Derby Cathedral
Francis Jackson plays the organ of Derby Cathedral
Sinfonia Viva at the Buxton Festival
'The Barber of Baghdad' by Peter Cornelius
A Bernstein double bill at Buxton
A recital by Stephen Disley
Richard Rodney Bennett's 'All the King's Men'
David Fanshawe's 'African Sanctus'
George Benjamin's 'Into the Little Hill'
Verdi's 'Luisa Miller' at the Buxton Festival
Opera North's 'Rusalka'
Donizetti's 'Maria Stuarda' at Opera North
Sinfonia Viva's summer schools project, 'Floratorio'
The Hallé Orchestra ends Nottingham's orchestral season
Spanish music from the Hallé Orchestra
Mike Wheeler listens to Pinchas Zukerman and the Royal Philharmonic
An evening with the Northern Sinfonia and friends delights Mike Wheeler
Nicholas Kok conducts Sinfonia Viva
Helen Cha plays John Mackenzie, Bach, Haydn and Chopin
Derby Chamber Music ends its season on a high
Choral music by Rossini, Elgar and Handel
Britten's 'The Company of Heaven' and Renaissance Polyphony
Haydn, Poulenc, Szymanowski and Walton, sung by Derby Bach Choir and the girl choristers of Derby Cathedral
Sinfonia Viva plays Beethoven, Anna Meredith, Nico Muhly, Ravel and Schumann
Music by Antonín Tucapský, Petr Eben and Vaughan Williams
Mike Wheeler listens to the Bergen Philharmonic
Derby Grammar School and High School Choral Society
Sinfonia Viva's schools residency concert, attended
Horn trios by Lennox Berkeley, Jeremy Thurlow and Haydn impress Mike Wheeler
Opera North's 'Ruddigore'
Derby Concert Orchestra's sixtieth birthday
Beate Toyka and Thomas Solzbacher celebrate Chopin
The Isolani Quartet
Petrenko conducts the RLPO
Ilya Gringolts, Sinfonia Viva and André de Ridder
Mike Wheeler listens to Markus Stenz and the Hallé in music by Colin Matthews and Mahler
Andris Nelsons conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Mike Wheeler listens to the Denner Ensemble
Derby Choral Union performs Handel's 'Messiah'
Derby Concert Orchestra plays film music
Mike Wheeler listens to the Sitwell Singers
The Stanford Quartet plays Mozart, Shostakovich, Borodin and Piazzolla, welcomed
The Derby Bach Choir joins the 'Sing Hallelujah' project
Sinfonia Viva plays Judith Weir
Mozart's 'Così fan tutte'
Massenet's 'Werther'
A concert by the Derby Bach Choir
Mike Wheeler experiences Janácek's 'The excursions of Mr Broucek'
Music on the theme of angels
A concert by the Polish National Radio Symphony
A recital by Helen Reid
Mike Wheeler listens to Stephen Johnson and the BBC Philharmonic
Mike Wheeler listens to the Atrium Quartet
Mendelssohn, Haydn and Beethoven from the Derby Concert Orchestra
Mike Wheeler listens to the St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra
Music by Dvorák, Rachmaninov and Sibelius from Sergio Tiempo, Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra
Derby Cathedral Choir celebrates four composer anniversaries
A recital for oboe and harp
Elgar, Rachmaninov and Sibelius from the Hallé Orchestra
A recital by harpist Anneleen Lenaerts
Mike Wheeler was at a song recital by Richard Roddis and Philip Robinson
Paul Hale provides a fitting end to Derby Cathedral's summer organ series, and Mike Wheeler was there
Tom Corfield plays the organ of Derby Cathedral
Peter Gould helps celebrate the seventieth anniversary of Derby Cathedral's Compton Organ, as noted
Members of Psappha at the Buxton Festival
An organ recital by Ian Tracey
York Minster's Robert Sharpe plays the organ at Derby Cathedral
Mike Wheeler listens to Peter Williams at the organ of Derby Cathedral
'The Lighthouse' by Peter Maxwell Davies
Mike Wheeler is delighted to be surprised by Donizetti's 'Lucrezia Borgia'
André Messager's 'Véronique' delights Mike Wheeler
Sinfonia Viva at the Buxton Festival
Mike Wheeler listens to organist Matthew Owens at Derby Cathedral
Thomas May's 'The John Adams Reader'
Thomas Trotter at the organ of Derby Cathedral
Verdi's Requiem from Derby Bach Choir
'The Fragile Shell' amazes Mike Wheeler
Verdi's 'Don Carlos'
Purcell and MacMillan from The Sixteen
Shostakovich's operetta 'Moskva, Cheryomushki'
Opera North's 'Abduction from the Seraglio'
Mike Wheeler listens to Horses Brawl
Mike Wheeler listens to the Prague Symphony Orchestra
A new partnership between Charles Dutoit and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Mendelssohn and Kurt Weill from Sinfonia Viva, with no complaints from Mike Wheeler
Music from the Richard Roddis Singers and the Helix Ensemble
Mendelssohn, Haydn and Shostakovich from the Navarra Quartet
Haydn, Mendelssohn, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky from Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra
Mike Wheeler listens to a new work by Richard Roddis
Mike Wheeler listens to Haydn, Sibelius and Mendelssohn played by the Hallé Orchestra
Music for voices and brass
Sacha Grynyuk plays for Derby Chamber Music
Elizabeth Watts and Derby Choral Union
Glinka, Tchaikovsky and Schubert from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Mahler's Symphony No 2 in Derby Cathedral
Brahms' German Requiem, sung by the Derwent Singers
Lothar Zagrosek conducts the Konzerthausorchester, Berlin
An evening long retelling of the 'Romeo and Juliet' story
Music by Fauré and Poulenc
Music by Bach, Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn, Mozart and Wagner, played by Sinfonia Viva
The early music ensemble Concert Royal celebrates the Purcell anniversary
Leila Josefowicz and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Nottingham
Karis Stretton plays Messiaen, impressing Mike Wheeler
Haydn, Dvorák and Lawrie Rose from the Iuventus Quartet
Sinfonia Viva begins its Mendelssohn celebrations
Christmas music from the Sitwell Singers
Derby Cathedral Choir's performance of Handel's 'Messiah' invigorates Mike Wheeler
The Aquinas Trio plays Haydn, Ravel and Saint-Saëns
Mike Wheeler sits through film scores and Christmas music
Fauré, Bliss, Brahms and Weber played by the Frith Piano Quartet
The Derby Bach Choir begins its 50th anniversary celebrations
Wagner, Mozart and Schubert from Julian Bliss, Andreas Reiner and the Munich KlangVerwaltung,
Bellini's 'I Capuleti e i Montecchi'
Ruth Palmer plays the Barber Violin Concerto
A concert by Zephyr
Holst and Vaughan Williams from Nottingham
Beethoven, Stravinsky and Weber from The Hallé Orchestra
Uri Caine meets Sinfonia Viva, and Mike Wheeler listens
Byrd, Vaughan Williams, Parry and Elgar from the Sitwell Singers
Matthew Moss sings British music
Freddy Kempf and the Moscow Philharmonic
Tim Lowe plays Haydn
Eleftheria Kotzia returns to Derby, and Mike Wheeler listens
A recital by Victoria Simonsen and Simon Lane
Beethoven and Tchaikovsky from Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
Gareth Green gives the final organ recital in Derby Cathedral's summer series, and Mike Wheeler was in the audience
Mike Wheeler listens to The Midas Touch Organ Duo
Mike Wheeler enjoys Timothy Noon's recital of Bach, Bohm, Dubois, Messiaen and Widor
An organ recital by Martin Neary
Cathy Lamb at the organ
Mike Wheeler enjoys a multi-player organ recital
Contemporary opera at the Buxton Festival
Albert Lortzing's 'Der Wildschütz'
Sinfonia Viva at the Buxton Festival
Jonathan Scott plays the organ of Derby Cathedral
Naji Hakim begins the Derby Cathedral summer organ recital series
Derbyshire celebrates an important sixteenth century figure
Celebrations in Derby
Verdi's 'Macbeth'
Mike Wheeler listens to Britten's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
Gounod's 'Roméo et Juliette'
Mike Wheeler finds Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra a joy to hear
The Russian State Symphony Orchestra plays Musorgsky, Prokofiev and Rakhmaninov
Beate Toyka plays Grieg's piano concerto
Mahler and Mozart in Nottingham
Dvorák and Brahms from Derby
Mike Wheeler listens to tenor saxophonists Don Weller and Bobby Wellins, backed by a rhythm section and a string quartet from Sinfonia Viva
Violinist Jack Liebeck makes a short-notice appearance with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Haydn, Beethoven and Judith Weir from Sinfonia Viva
A recital by the Tippett Quartet
Mike Wheeler listens to Alban Gerhardt, Rory Macdonald and the Hallé Orchestra
John Wilson conducts the Hallé Orchestra
English vocal and instrumental music from Musica Mundi
The first concert by Malcolm Goldring and the Sitwell Singers
Bach's St John Passion from Derby
Antoni Wit and the Warsaw Philharmonic on tour impress Mike Wheeler
Rossini, Schubert and Beethoven from the Derby Concert Orchestra
More from Sinfonia Viva's school and college residency project
Bach's St Matthew Passion from Derby Cathedral
Music and dance on the theme of creation
Nicola Meecham plays Haydn, Schubert, Ravel, Prokofiev and Gershwin
Schumann and Strauss from Sinfonia Viva
A concert by the Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra
A song recital by Richard Roddis and Clive Pollard
Mike Wheeler catches up with a touring production of 'La Traviata'
Mike Wheeler enjoys Jonathan Dove's opera 'The Adventures of Pinocchio'
Mike Wheeler listens to Natalie Clein and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
A concert by the Roberts Quartet
Mike Wheeler joins the Hallé Orchestra's 150th birthday celebrations
Dvorák, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky from the Burlington Piano Trio
Derby Bach Choir's cathedral Christmas presentation
Mike Wheeler listens to The Sitwell Singers
A Christmas programme from Derby Cathedral Choir
Choral music by Britten and Finzi from the Derwent Singers
A festive concert from the Derby Concert Orchestra
Alexander Shelley at Sinfonia Viva's helm
Sarah Connolly and the Hallé Orchestra
Mike Wheeler draws attention to the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Orchestra
Tchaikovsky, Janácek and Schubert from the Iuventus Quartet
Mike Wheeler enjoys a performance of the Monteverdi Vespers
Mike Wheeler is impressed by Sibelius, Bach and Smetana from Pietari Inkinen and the CBSO
Music for flute, viola and harp from The Wakeford Ensemble
Jeremy Hagan and the Derby Concert Orchestra
Mike Wheeler listens to a recital by the Adelfi Duo
The Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio on tour
Julian Bliss, Nicholas Kok and Sinfonia Viva in Nottingham
Orchestral music by Toru Takemitsu. '... meticulous care for detail ...'
A recital by cellist Tim Hugh
Sarah Connolly, The Hallé Orchestra and Mark Elder visit Derby, and Mike Wheeler was in the audience
Mike Wheeler listens to the last of Derby Cathedral's 2007 summer organ recitals
Jennifer Koh plays Szymanowski, Martinu and Bartók
Mike Wheeler attends summer organ recitals by Tom Corfield and Johan Hermans
Mike Wheeler makes a final visit to the Buxton Festival for Mozart's 'The Marriage of Figaro'
Malcolm Archer at the organ of Derby Cathedral
Mike Wheeler returns to the Buxton Festival to hear members of Sinfonia Viva
Music Theatre Wales presents Philippe Boesmans' 'Julie'
Organist Peter Gould joins forces with The Swingle Singers
Tobias and the Angel
The Armonico Consort at the Buxton Festival
Ashley Grote opens Derby Cathedral's series of summer organ recitals
The Derby Bach Choir sings HMS Pinafore
A Stravinsky and Purcell double bill at Opera North
Summer with The Derwent Singers
Janácek's 'Katya Kabanová'
The Hallé Orchestra plays Colin Matthews, Debussy, Poulenc and Tchaikovsky
The Czech National Symphony on tour
Edmund Battersby plays Beethoven on piano and fortepiano. '... it's fascinating to hear the two side-by-side ...'
Machaut, O'Regan and Brumel from The Orlando Consort and Viva Voce
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
A concert by Sinfonia Viva
A concert by the wind players of Ensemble 360 ends Derby Chamber Music's 2006-7 season and satisfies Mike Wheeler
Elgar's 'The Music Makers' in Derby Cathedral
Sondheim's 'Merrily we roll along'
Music by Trevor Hold, Elgar, Parry, Stanford, Delius and Vivaldi from the Derwent Singers
Sakari Oramo and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra play Mahler
A concert by the Elias Quartet
Derby Bach Choir's performance of Handel's 'Messiah'
A concert by the Philharmonia of the Nations
Kala Ramnath and friends meet Sinfonia Viva
Masterpieces from the Austro-Germanic symphonic repertoire played by Derby Concert Orchestra
A performance of J S Bach's 'St John Passion'
Performances of 'The Magic Flute' and 'Orfeo' from Opera North
A concert by the European Union Chamber Orchestra
Opera North's 'The Elixir of Love'
Sharona Joshua plays a copy of an early piano
Handel's 'Messiah' from The Sitwell Singers
The Moscow State Symphony Orchestra visits Nottingham
A performance by Christian Knapp and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
The Hallé Orchestra plays Elgar and Wagner
A recital by Katherine Jenkinson and Alison Farr
A Christmas concert by the vocal ensemble 'Aitone'
Emile de Roubaix and the Maraini Quartet play Mozart, Szymanowski and Brahms
The Sitwell Singers' Christmas concert
The Derby Concert Orchestra and Chorale in Christmas mood
Music by Haydn, Karl Jenkins and Vaughan Williams
The Munich Symphony Orchestra on tour
Ashley Wass in Derby
Derby Bach Choir makes its contribution to the Mozart anniversary
André de Ridder and Sinfonia Viva
Another take on Opera North's 'Peter Grimes'
Verdi's 'Rigoletto' from Opera North
The Czech Philharmonic on tour
An eclectic programme by Sinfonia Viva
The Coull Quartet plays Haydn, Shostakovich and Beethoven
Alina Pogostkina with Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra
Igor Tchetuev plays Tchaikovsky
Andreas Boyde's recent Derby recital
Derby Cathedral Choir sings Mozart
A concert by Stephen Hough, Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra delighted Mike Wheeler
Arthur Honegger's 'Le Roi David'
Robert Manning, David Johnson and Tom Corfield share an organ recital at Derby Cathedral
Peter Gould at the organ of Derby Cathedral
Marcus Huxley played at Derby Cathedral, and Mike Wheeler was there
An organ recital by Malcolm Riley
Mike Wheeler reports from the Buxton Festival
An organ recital by Andrew Nethsingha
An organ recital by John Keys
A concert by the Derwent Singers
The Sitwell Singers celebrate a 40th anniversary
Bach, Arnold and Haydn from Sinfonia Viva in Derby
The Budapest Symphony Orchestra on tour in the UK
Stephen Sondheim's 'Into the Woods'
Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms from the Navarra Quartet and Simon Lane
Kurt Weill's 'Arms and the Cow'
Nicholas Kok's last concert as Principal Conductor of Sinfonia Viva
Venetian Baroque music from The Derbyshire Singers
Passiontide music sung by the Derwent Singers
A recital by Althea Ifeka and Katherine May
Emma Kirkby and the Derby Choral Union
The Russian State Philharmonic in Derby
A performance of Elgar's 'The Dream of Gerontius'
Matthew Coorey and the RLPO in Derby
A piano recital by Jane Ford
Mahler, Schumann and Britten
Bizet's 'The Pearl Fishers'
Music on the theme of journeys
A concert performance of Strauss's 'Salomé'
The Denali Piano Trio
A concert by the Sitwell Singers
'Messiah' in Derby Cathedral
Christmas and other music by Lutoslawski
Carols from Derby Cathedral
The Tempest Saxophone Quartet in concert
Derby Concert Orchestra plays Maxwell Davies
Elgar, Brahms and Strauss in Derby
A performance of Handel's 'Solomon'
Twentieth-century British music, sung by Derby Choral Union
A recital by Fiona McNaught and Daniel Tong
The Derwent Singers and Sinfonia Chorale
Julian Bliss and Sinfonia Viva in Derby
A concert by The Quince Quartet
Sinfonia ViVA at Derby's Guildhall
Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven in Littleover
English Touring Opera visits Derby
A concert by the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
The first public appearance of a new chamber choir
A recital by Harriet Adie and Jessica Burroughs
The Hallé Orchestra plays Vaughan Williams in Derby
Greek guitarist Eleftheria Kotzia in Derby
Music by Bartók
Daniel Felsenfeld's book 'Samuel Barber and Benjamin Britten. Their lives and their music'
Mike Wheeler reviews the last of Derby Cathedral's summer organ recitals, given by Tom Corfield
Derby Cathedral organ recitals by Ian Hare, Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin, Peter Gould and Jonathan Gregory, David Briggs, Simon Bell and David Johnson
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