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Deal Festival 2023 – Thinking my way back to a much-loved place IN PREPARATION!!!

June 24, 2023

On Thursday 22nd June, after the wonderful day recording David Matthews and Edward Cowie in the Chiltern Hills the day before, I got on the Javelin train from St Pancras to Deal. This is a journey I have taken so many times in recent years, but getting off a little earlier, as I have been […]

Tim Rutherford-Johnson in conversation with Peter Sheppard Skærved about the Kreutzer Quartet Programes for Aldeburgh 2023

June 12, 2023

MORE ON THE KREUTZER QUARTET AT ALDEBURGH here LINK Visit Tim Rutherford-Johnson’s website HERE The Kreutzer Quartet’s first violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved talks to me (over Zoom) in front of a case of thick wooden shelves stuffed with books, manuscripts and papers. We’re discussing the two concerts he has programmed at Aldeburgh this year. Like […]

Continuation and Remembrance – Kreutzer Quartet at the Aldeburgh Festival June 2023

June 11, 2023

  The Kreutzer Quartet has just completed an intense three-day residency at the Aldeburgh Festival. We played the last quartets of Mozart and Haydn, Priaulx Rainier’s two string quartets, and works by composers associated with the quartet – three premieres, by David Matthews, Sadie Harrison and David Horne, and works by Michael Finnissy, and Eleanor […]


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