This is where you can find out about what I do: as a composer, and as a writer of programme notes, articles, reviews, and books on classical music.

Welcome to my website. In it you'll information about my composing - list of works, performances, available recordings, reviews, current and future projects - and about my writing on classical music.

 

Composing

A beautifully sung recording of my Corpus Christi carol setting, with Jamie Burton conducting the Schola Cantorum of Oxford, is available on CD. You can hear it on this YouTube link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I9e3bs7ktU

(My thanks to my nephew James Dow in Edinburgh for spotting this!)

- and these are the words:

Corpus Christi words

If you'd like a free copy of the Faber Music Choral Sampler CD itself, please go to the Choral Works section of the Composing menu on the left, or click here  -

http://cde.cerosmedia.com/Chorale-Choral-Faber-Music/1K4a8ad644ee55d012.cde 

- and use the 'forward' blue arrow to go to pp.12-13 of the file, where you'll find further links to the score and the CD. 

Please click on the Composing menu on the left for more information, including my music that's available on CD.

 

Writing

If you're interested in programme notes, preview features, or promotional material written to order, this is where to start looking! Please click on the Writing menu on the left.

This year marks the anniversaries of:

  • Chopin: bicentenary
  • Mahler: 150th anniversary
  • Schumann: bicentenary

And 2011 is the anniversary year of:

  • Liszt: bicentenary

(My recently completed Liszt biography will be published by Naxos Books in January 2011.)

Looking further ahead, the year 2012 commemorates:

  • Debussy: 150th anniversary
  • Delius: 150th anniversary

If your organisation is presenting the music of any of these composers, and you need written material relating to your project, I'd be happy to discuss your requirements with you.

Please contact me at malcolmhayes@btinternet.com.

 

More writing?

I'm also cautiously considering an occasional blogspot... If this goes ahead, you can be sure that there will be a strict word limit of 500 words (I'm a trained journo after all) - and an engagement with ideas and values rather than just opinion. Why this new interest on my part? Well, the link below is a fine example of what can be done. Food for thought.

Christianne Stotijn: El Duende

 

 

London, UK

September 2010