MusicTeachers.co.uk Online Journal

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"The Sound of Silence"
In this issue our editor looks at the effect of muzak on our appreciation of music.

Awards, examinations, publishers, promoters, recording companies, etc.


Performance Practice in the 21st Century – a worrying problem? Conductor, harpsichordist and organist David Roblou talks to musicteachers.co.uk about performance practice in today's musical world.

CD-Pluscore Crispin Woodhead examines a new collaboration between Deutsche Grammophon and Schott Music
		Leopold Stokowski MusicTeachers.co.uk takes a frank look at the life and achievements of one of Britain’s most enigmatic conductors.


		The Trio Basiliensis: Going For Baroque Margaret Weighill looks at the personalities and work surrounding one of Europe’s leading Baroque trios.

		An Interview with Helen Crayford Better known as principal keyboardist for the Britten Sinfonia and one time pupil of Nadia Boulanger, Helen Crayford is currently presenting a series of concert programmes recreating the music of the stride pianists of the 1920s and 30s. Simon Kemp reports.

Each month we ask music's high-flyers how they made it to the top.

Andrew Benians
Pianist, organist and Lay Vicar at Chichester Cathedral, Andrew Benians has had a varied and interesting career that started as a boy in the 1960s. He has been at Chichester for the past sixteen years and took time out of his busy schedule to talk to MT.co.uk.

New Recordings
-	Ernest Chausson / Vincent D'Indy: String Quartets (Recording of the month)
-	Bach Arias Magdalena Kozená/Musica Florea/Marek Stryncl
-	Schumann/Brahms Piano Concerti Ivan Moravec/Dallas Symphony Orchestra/Eduardo Mata
-	Rule Britannia Various artists
-	Stephen Dodgson: Piano Sonatas Volume 2 Bernard Roberts
-	Folksongs Anne Sofie von Otter/Bengt Forsberg
-	G. F. Handel: Israel in Egypt King's College Cambridge/The Brandenburg Consort/Stephen Cleobury
-	J. C. Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Concerti and Chamber Music The Salomon Quartet
-	Korngold: Sinfonietta in B-Flat Major Dallas Symphony Orchestra
-	Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 10 Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin/Riccardo Chailly
-	Meditations for Autumn Various Artists
Music
-	The Boosey & Hawkes 20th-Century Easy Piano Collection Various composers, selected by John York
Books
-	Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician Christoph Wolff
-	Improvisation for Organists Jan Overduin
-	Jean Langlais: The Man and His Music Ann Labounsky
-	Oxford Composer Companions: J. S. Bach Malcolm Boyd
-	The Rough Guides to Music Hugo Pinksterboer
Educational Material
-	Cambridge Assignments in Music Elizabeth Sharma/John Howard/General Editor: Roy Bennett

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