Kate Wakeling

Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

Kate Wakeling is a writer, musicologist, poet and BBC Music Magazine critic, predominantly focusing on contemporary music. She studied music at Cambridge University and holds a PhD in Balinese gamelan music from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. She writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement and is a writer-in-residence with the Aurora Orchestra.

Recent articles by Kate Wakeling

My Microtonal Piano

Julius Eastman: Femenine

Young Composers 5

Von Zieritz: Le Violon de la Mort; Double Concerto; Japanese Songs

Our Stories

Forget This Night

African American Voices II

Coleridge-Taylor: Partsongs

Dobrinka Tabakova: Earth Suite etc

Jake Heggie: a life less ordinary

American composer Jake Heggie is best known for his operas, which tackle painful and difficult topics – and his path to success has been anything but ordinary, writes Kate Wakeling

Rising

Lawrence Brownlee (tenor), Kevin J Miller (piano) (Warner Classics)

Coleridge-Taylor • Dvořák: String Quartet, Op. 106 etc

Takács Quartet (Hyperion)

Malek Jandali: Violin and Clarinet Concertos

Anthony McGill (clarinet), Rachel Barton Pine (violin); ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra/Marin Alsop (Cedille)

Because (Reginald Mobley)

Reginald Mobley (countertenor), Baptiste Trotignon (piano) (Alpha Classics)

Revival (Michelle Cann)

Michelle Cann (piano) (Curtis Studio)

Broken Branches (Sulayman/Shibe)

Karim Sulayman (tenor), Sean Shibe (guitar) (Pentatone)

Eric Whitacre: Home

VOCES8; Emma Denton (cello), Christopher Glynn (piano) (Decca)

There Are Things to be Said

Tailleferre Ensemble (Ulysses Arts)

Valentin Silvestrov: Silent Songs

Konstantin Krimmel (baritone), Hélène Grimaud (piano) (DG)

Eric McElroy: Tongues of Fire

James Gilchrist (tenor), Eric McElroy (piano) (SOMM)

Bonds: Credo; Simon Bore the Cross

Janinah Burnett (soprano), Dashon Burton (bass-baritone); The Dessoff Choirs/Malcolm J Merriweather (Avie)

Sola – Music for Viola by Women Composers

Rosalind Ventris (viola) (Delphian)

Fabrice Bollon: Die ungebornen Enkel etc

Irina Jae-Eun Park (soprano), Nutthaporn Thammathi (tenor), Johannes Moser (electric cello), Fabrice Bollon (electronics) (Naxos)