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Michael Church – column in International Piano magazine May 2024

Posted on June 24, 2024June 30, 2024 by Michael Church
Michael Church – International Piano live roundup May 2024  Queen Elizabeth Hall: Marc-André Hamelin Feb 23 Wigmore Hall: Andras Schiff  March 3; Steven Osborne March 12; Pavel Kolesnikov and... Read More

Maurizio Pollini – the end?

Posted on June 26, 2023June 26, 2023 by Michael Church
Maurizio Pollini,  Royal Festival Hall, London Maurizio Pollini was, in his prime, arguably the greatest pianist in the world. In recent years there’s been a  falling-off from his once immaculate ... Read More

Musics can die… a sermon to the converted

Posted on February 19, 2023March 12, 2023 by Michael Church
Musics can die… I was born in Conwy, a fishing village in north Wales, and many of my earliest memories are of singing. The Second World War was at its darkest hour, and my father was fighting in Fr... Read More

Stephen Hough in the ascendent

Posted on February 19, 2023March 17, 2023 by Michael Church
Composer, belle-lettrist, polemicist, novelist, painter, teacher, and failed priest – as well as pianist – the newly-knighted Stephen Hough must sometimes lose track of his multifarious ac... Read More

In memoriam Lars Vogt

Posted on October 12, 2022October 18, 2022 by Michael Church
Lars Vogt remembered, By Michael Church   Can one play vibrato on the piano? Since it’s just a box of hammers, with each making only momentary contact with its string, the common-sense answer m... Read More

Evgeny Kissin on Russian anti-Semitism, in an interview with Michael Church

Posted on August 16, 2022September 9, 2022 by Michael Church
It’s an ill wind… Temporarily prevented from performing in Verbier by tendonitis in his left shoulder, Evgeny Kissin suddenly has time on his hands, and is in a mood, I’m told, to give an interv... Read More

Musics Lost and Found – review by Chinese music expert

Posted on November 12, 2021November 12, 2021 by Michael Church
Stephen Jones, the leading authority on Chinese village music, has written a review of Musics Lost and Found which takes my book’s argument further, in many interesting directions… Click here: To ... Read More

Voice of Armenia:  the tragedy of Komitas

Posted on October 28, 2021November 12, 2021 by Michael Church
SOGHOMON SOGHOMONIAN was born in 1869 in Kütahya, an Armenian Christian enclave whose inhabitants suffered systematic oppression under the Ottoman yoke. Even those Armenians who could speak their anc... Read More

Discussing ‘Musics Lost and Found’ on Radio 3’s ‘Music Matters’

Posted on October 4, 2021November 27, 2021 by Michael Church
On Saturday 2 October, Radio 3’s Music Matters carried an item in which Tom Service and I discussed, with musical examples, the central argument of my new book Musics Lost and Found: Song Collectors... Read More

‘Musics Lost and Found: Song Collectors and the Life and Death of Folk Tradition’

Posted on September 22, 2021November 6, 2021 by Michael Church
  Is folk music dying? In my new book I suggest that it is, at least in Europe and North America, thanks to the globalisation, urbanisation, and industrialisation which is now eroding the worldâ€... Read More
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