Articles

The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

Review of the book by Alex Ross.

Musical Opinion, July-August 2009 ... Read full text

Renewing Musical Tradition

Paper given at the conference 'Redefining Musical Identities' in Amsterdam, 31 August 2002.

pp.79-86, Redefining Musical Identities, edited by Rokus de Groot, Albert van der Schoot, ArtEZ Press, 2007 ... Read full text

Form-compelling

London Review of Books, 21 September 2006

The Art of the Fugue

Expended version of a review of 'The Art of Fugue' by Joseph Kerman.

London Review of Books, 2006 ... Read full text

A Wistful Sophisticate

The Times Literary Supplement, 11 March 2005

The Unperformed

The Times Literary Supplement, 16 January 2004

Renewing the Past, some personal thoughts

pp.199-212, Reviving the Muse: Essays on Music After Modernism, edited by Peter Davison, Claridge Press, 2001 ... Read full text

Kristallnachtmusic

The Times Literary Supplement, 17 November 2000

That Intimate, Familiar Sense

The Times Literary Supplement, 19 November 1999

Michael Tippett and the Fading 'Collective Imaginative Experience'

The Times Literary Supplement, 21 May 1999

The Sixth Symphony

pp.366-375, The Mahler Companion, edited by Donald Mitchell, Andrew Nicholson, Oxford University Press, 1999

Wagner, Lipiner, and the ''Purgatorio''

pp.508-516, The Mahler Companion, edited by Donald Mitchell, Andrew Nicholson, Oxford University Press, 1999

Nothing of the Circus

The Times Literary Supplement, 3 April 1998

To the Point of Chaos

The Times Literary Supplement, 28 November 1997

All Art is a Diary?

The Times Literary Supplement, 17 January 1997

The Cycle of Seasons

The Times Literary Supplement, 19 July 1996

Mahler and Parsifal

Muzik & Wetenschap, Vol.V. No.3, 1995/96

Royal Splendours

The Times Literary Supplement, 17 May 1995

Radical Angst

The Times Literary Supplement, 19 August 1994

This What You Call Music?

The Times Literary Supplement, 27 May 1994

The Flaying of Marsyas

Salisbury Review, March 1994

Landscape in British Music

Towards a new Landscape, edited by Bernard Jacobson, 1993

Living Traditions

Musical Times, April 1993

Love Song for Alma

The Times Literary Supplement, 13 November 1992

That Carefree Feeling

The Times Literary Supplement, 10 April 1992

Ambiguous Utterances

The Times Literary Supplement, 23 August 1991

Romanticism in Unlikely Corners

The Times Literary Supplement, 26 April 1991

Forest Folk

The Times Literary Supplement, 22 June 1990

The Secret Programme

The Times Literary Supplement, 13 Arpil 1990

Peter Sculthorpe at 60

Tempo 170, 1989

The Rehabilitation of the Vernacular

Music and The Politics of Culture, edited by Christopher Morris, Lawrence and Wishart, 1989

The Music of English Pastoral

pp.81-90, Town and Country, edited by Anthony Barnett, Roger Scruton, Jonathan Cape, 1988

Drafting the Resurrection

The Times Literary Supplement, 17 July 1987

Reorientation

Salisbury Review, April 1987

From Romance to Ritual

The Times Literary Supplement, 13 February 1987

On the Mahler Phenomenon

pp.35, The Listener, 10 July 1986

Mirror upon mirror mirrored

Michael Tippett, A Celebration, edited by Geraint Lewis, The Baton Press Ltd, 1985

A Note of Loneliness

The Times Literary Supplement, 10 August 1984

Act II Scene 1: An Examination of the Music in Peter Grimes

Cambridge Opera Handbooks, edited by Philip Brett, 1983

Affirmations and Ambiguities

The Times Literary Supplement, 27 August 1982

Zvezdoliki

Tempo 97 (Stravinsky memorial issue), 1971

Shostakovich's eleventh symphony

pp.448, The Listener, 24 March 1966

Messiaen and large-scale form

pp.972, The Listener, 9 December 1965