Faculty of Arts talk:

Dr Robert Phillip
Does the composer know best?

Many of the famous composers of the last hundred years have made recordings of their own music. What attention should we pay to them?

Are composers necessarily the best interpreters of their own works?

This talk will include recordings of Elgar, Rachmaninoff and Stravinsky.

Robert Philip is a Senior Lecturer in Music. His book Early Recordings and Musical Style: Changing Tastes in Instrumental Performance 1900-1950 has been described as ‘a monumental book at the cutting-edge of a new face of musicology’, with a leading article in The Times commenting that ‘A bomb has been dropped on ... musically correct modern orthodoxy.’

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