JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
TILEN LEBAR is a Slovenian composer, whose music is raw, beautiful and austere. A young man with a great sense of humour, who greeted me: “Ah! Tovariscz Ben!” His work won him the RKST21 Commissie prize, and he is a composer to keep an eye out for.
Zeno Baldi is a canny composer from Italy. My work featured alongside his in the Ensemble Proton Bern’s ProtonWerk project.
His piece Copia Carbone (not to be confused with a pasta dish) means carbon copy, the principle from which the work is built.
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
TONY BURKE talks to Garth Cartwright author of Princes Amongst Men — Journeys With Romani Gypsy Musicians
WILL STONE witnesses an experimental piano concerto inspired by the work of a young Jewish victim of the Nazis
WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne


