Features & Interviews
First Person: Director Sir David Pountney on creating a new 'Masque of Might' from the music of Purcell
Wednesday, 27 September 2023
Purcell came very early to me. When I was a chorister at St. John’s Cambridge “Jehova quam multi sunt” was a perennial favourite and we were thrilled by the evenings when George Guest brought in some string players to accompany Purcell’s verse anthems. These were special occasions. Then, since no management had the wit to invite me to direct Purcell, I finally engaged myself to direct The Fairy Queen at ENO.
First Person: conductor Edward Gardner on some of his questions and obsessions about Mahler's 'Resurrection' Symphony
Friday, 22 September 2023“If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.”“What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.”
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