In praise of Willi Boskovsky

A few years ago I was lucky to be invited by White Label for EMI (as was) to write the liner notes for a re-release of Willi Boskovsky's...

DJ Johann

I'm currently teaching the History of the Waltz at City Lit . It's a speedy five-week course that began by looking at the waltz'...

Der Lenz ist da!

How glorious that there are two words for spring in German. There is the more familiar 'die Frühling' and then the literary 'der...

Wohin?

When listening to Hyperion Records' new disc of the music of Julius Isserlis, it proves impossible to separate what you hear from the ex...

Helping Complete the Symphonic Picture

I'm guilty of oversights. Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler... it's a symphony trajectory I repeat ad absurdum . Of course I include the fin...

Hallucinations of the Real

Jem Cohen's Museum Hours is a quiet film. At times it's almost silent. The 'hours' to which its title refers – as well as t...

Indigenous Music

I've been writing about Die Fledermaus , which is a work I love, but which I've never heard performed well in the theatre outside Vi...

A Message for the New Year

Shortly before the Christmas break, Mike Breneis, the CEO of Vienna-based record label col legno wrote the following: The thing with record...