Classical Interviews
theartsdesk Q&A: Conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Saturday, 30 March 2013
It’s only fitting that Sir John Eliot Gardiner should be celebrating his 70th birthday with a concert in the Royal Albert Hall. That it should be a nine-hour marathon of a concert is not only fitting... Read more... |
Q&A Special: Conductor Sir Simon Rattle
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
Sir Simon Rattle (b. 1955) and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (est. 1986) have been together from the beginning. Founded by period-instrument musicians eager to run their own affairs... Read more... |
10 Questions for Amateur Musician Alan Rusbridger
Monday, 21 January 2013
Had we but world enough and time... A new book by the editor of the Guardian makes it clear quite how many hours in the day it takes to run a national newspaper in the digital age. There is the... Read more... |
10 Questions for Opera singer Rolando Villazón
Monday, 17 December 2012
Few singers provoke more debate than Rolando Villazón. His off-piste projects - from his Romantic exploration of the Baroque to his spell as a talent contest judge - have been much discussed over the... Read more... |
Sir Patrick Moore, Xylophonist and Composer
Wednesday, 12 December 2012
The astronomer Sir Patrick Moore was a keen composer of decided musical preferences, and no mean xylophonist. The news of his death on Sunday reminded me of my hugely enjoyable encounter with him -... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: Composer Pierre Boulez
Friday, 20 July 2012
One of the most exciting things to happen in orchestral music in recent years has been the way the music of Pierre Boulez (b 1925) has begun to escape the confines of the specialist contemporary... Read more... |
Interview: Film composer Ilan Eshkeri
Thursday, 21 June 2012
At his studio near White City in West London (he did say it was Notting Hill) Ilan Eshkeri’s is adding a scratchy cello to a key moment in Ralph Fiennes film of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus. It’s the... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: Conductor Gustavo Dudamel
Saturday, 16 June 2012
At the Royal Albert Hall one summer evening in 2007, a teeming ensemble of young South Americans served up a BBC Prom that is the most YouTubed classical concert this side of the Three Tenors. Under... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: Countertenor Iestyn Davies
Saturday, 05 May 2012
Recently hailed by The Observer as “today’s most exciting British countertenor”, Iestyn Davies is on a roll. Indeed, many critics would – and have – gone further, seeing this young British singer as... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: Conductor Ilan Volkov
Saturday, 28 April 2012
Relentlessly energetic, opinionated, and never less than passionate about music-making, Ilan Volkov is a close as you get to a prodigy in the world of conducting. Appointed as Young Conductor in... Read more... |
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