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Anthony Payne, superb British composer who completed Elgar’s Third Symphony using the sketches – obituary Payne’s own compositions, including A Day in the Life of a Mayfly, were beautifully crafted, lyrical and allied to English Romanticism 2 May 2021 • 12:44pm Anthony Payne (with Penguin metronome): he was surprised when he won the listeners' award in the Radio 3 British Composer Awards  Credit: Eric Roberts Anthony Payne, who has died aged 84, was a critic, composer and arranger who took a series of fragmentary sketches by Edward Elgar and transformed them into a symphony; the resu...

Sunday, May 2, 2021 Anthony Payne completed Elgar 3 (photo: Jane Manning) The British composer best known for completing Elgar’s Third Symphony has died at the age of 84. He was married to the soprano Jane Manning, who died just a month earlier on March 31, from 1966. Together in 1988 they founded Jane’s Minstrels, an ensemble championing modern vocal music. Payne was not generally regarded as a fashionable composer (‘I wanted to marry English late Romanticism with the European avant-garde of the 1960s … Everyone thought I was mad,’ he said); he composed for love, no...

Show more James Shapiro is one of the world’s great Shakespeare scholars. A professor of English at Columbia University in New York, he is the author of seven major books, including the bestsellers "1599" and "1606", each of which zoomed in on one year, immersing us in Elizabethan and Jacobean culture and politics. His latest book is “Shakespeare in a Divided America”, an intriguing study of how the bard has been staged – and fought over – on his side of the Atlantic. But Professor Shapiro describes himself as “the least academic academic I know”: he is deeply in...

Show more Dublin-born artist Sean Scully is known worldwide for his abstract paintings of blocks and stripes of bold colour. You can see his work in the Tate, the Guggenheim, and the National Gallery of Ireland, among many other prestigious collections. He was brought up in what he describes as “abject poverty” and his paintings now fetch more than a million pounds; he and his wife and son fly back and forth between two homes, one south of Munich and one in New York. In conversation with Michael Berkeley, Sean looks back at his post-war childhood. His Irish father was a d...

Classical musicians on life after Brexit - 4: singers speak out | reviews, news & interviews Classical musicians on life after Brexit - 4: singers speak out Classical musicians on life after Brexit - 4: singers speak out Top tenor Nicky Spence introduces five other distinguished voices on the visa debacle by Nicky SpenceThursday, 11 February 2021 Nicky Spence: 'the UK as it stands seems not to be able to facilitate something which goes against the spirit of the Brexit rhetoric'Bertie Watson Forget the pandemic, it's Brexit which could ring the death knell for artists who are curr...