improvisation

Meet the man who says improvisation is the key to Mozart

18 May 2024 9:00 am

In August 1993, the pianist Robert Levin sat down in Walthamstow Assembly Rooms with the conductor Christopher Hogwood and the…

Modernism's back, baby: Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival reviewed

11 December 2021 9:00 am

It’s not everyone’s idea of fun, a trip to Huddersfield in the depths of November. But as any veteran of…

'Germans thought we couldn't play': Irmin Schmidt, of Krautrock pioneers Can, interviewed

5 June 2021 9:00 am

Krautrock pioneer Irmin Schmidt talks to Graeme Thomson about taking risks, playing badly and ignoring the Brits

Adhocism, by Charles Jencks - review

6 July 2013 9:00 am

Here, for time travellers, is the whack-job spirit of ’68 in distillate form, paperbound and reissued in facsimile (with some…