Paul Kildea

‘Light was shone into the darkest corners of the continent to reveal the most wonderful traditions, which had been isolated by cold war ideologies and boundaries’

Knussen’s music laid out each component as ‘precarious, vulnerable, exposed’ – and his conducting similarly worked from the inside out

Conlon Nancarrow (Other Minds, 2008)

Alex Ross (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2007)

The state of classical music criticism today

Poul Ruders' The Handmaid's Tale