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Holiday is a duty!

For the first time in many years I had a real holiday, and suddenly I understood all the fuss my friends are on about – it’s a magical experience! holiday! The last years have been a whirlwind. On one...

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Willem Jeths Recorder Concerto

“My new Recorder Concerto which I especially composed for Erik Bosgraaf has become one of my most personal and biographical works and has an enormous emotional impact.” Willem Jeths The working process...

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Whistle and flute* for horn player

Horn player Alec Frank-Gemmill spends a little of his 2014 BBT Fellowship money on kitting himself out… Does it matter what you wear on stage? Surely the important thing is what you sound like, not...

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A little me time

Every BBT award winner is offered the chance to visit Il Boscoforte, Ilaria Borletti-Buitoni’s country house in Italy, to take the opportunity to escape, either for a holiday or to work. Although I was...

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Scarlattery!

  I have recently emerged from a week in the recording studio with Laurence Cummings and the English Concert Orchestra making a CD for Harmonia Mundi to be released some time in 2015. The recording...

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Bassoon space travelling

A new bassoon concerto commissioned for Bram van Sambeek from composer Sebastian Fagerlund. World premiere. Lahti, Finland. 6 December 2014. Bram van Sambeek, bassoonist                 5 December...

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ROMANTIC IMPRESSIONS – how we chose our repertoire

Byol Kang and Boris Kusnezow Violin/Piano Duo CD Romantic Impressions GENUIN 15335 Coming up with the programme for our new CD was a long process and it started off with an important lesson on how NOT...

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Introducing Me!

September 2015 is a thrilling month for me as it marks the beginning of an exciting new season in which I will be appearing in 11 concerts in the Wigmore Hall series ‘Introducing James Baillieu’....

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Welcome to Wilton’s

Wilton’s is one of the last and oldest surviving grand music halls in the world offering a vibrant blend of culture, heritage, learning and participation. We produce a programme of imaginative...

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BBT and Me at the BBC Proms

This year the BBC presents the 121st season of the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts.  In contrast the Borletti-Buitoni Trust is a mere tenth of that age.  Somewhere in between is my personal history with...

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View from the platform: BBT Celebrated

The following first appeared in the programme book for BBT Celebrated at London’s Southbank Centre, 17-19 May 2013. In ten years the Borletti-Buitoni Trust has honoured a veritable orchestra of...

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The Bag’s the thing…

People who know me well know how much I value and love practicality in all areas of life and work. We at BBT love to come up with ideas to keep getting the word out about the Trust and how proud we are...

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Undaunted by Extreme Challenge

Now that the CD is about to come out, I am taken back to the very beginning. I will never forget receiving the score and midi file of Sebastian Fagerlund’s bassoon concerto Mana.  While on my bike I...

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Zoltán Fejérvári joins the Kurtágs in Budapest for the presentation of the...

Some weeks ago I was present at a very special event. By the time you read this blog it has been officially announced that BBT gave a Special Award to the famous Hungarian composer György Kurtág and...

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If Music be the Food of Love

December Days in Boscoforte After a week in London where we recorded for our first BBC New Generation Artist broadcast, heard Mitsuko Uchida in an unforgettable concert of Mozart with the Mahler...

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Bartók Live – Heath Quartet

There’s an argument to be made that the state of British quartet playing has never been healthier. Pressed for evidence I’d turn first to the Heath Quartet, three-quarters of whom are sitting in front...

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A Proustian Poser

Maria Milstein’s recent CD, The Vinteuil Sonata, recorded with her pianist sister Nathalia and made possible through her BBT Fellowship 2016, also inspired her piece for The Arts Desk website,...

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Who was Giulia Frasi?

Ruby Hughes’s recent Chandos debut CD, Handel’s Last Prima Donna – Giulia Frasi in London, recorded with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Laurence Commings made possible through her BBT...

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How Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, Janáček and Golijov speak for our troubled times

In an article written for The Arts Desk, reprinted here with permission, the Calidore String Quartet contemplates music for its torn nation, as collected together on its debut Signum Classics CD,...

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Concert for Franco & BBT’s 15th Anniversary

A SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO FRANCO BUITONI MARKING 15 YEARS OF BORLETTI-BUITONI TRUST The setting was a rain-swept, autumnal Sunday afternoon in the historic Umbrian hilltop town of Perugia in Italy.  The...

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