BEETHOVEN
October 2015
Beethoven set the bar impossibly high but composers like myself still regard it as the ultimate challenge
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November 2014
It is time to make a stand against incomprehensible modern music
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July/August 2014
Standing at the apex of our culture, the operatic art form remains the supreme test of any composer — as I know from experience
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November 2012
Far from being a diluted form of the orchestral work, piano transcriptions often reveal hidden depths to old favourites
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