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Etz Chayim Cello Concerto

An 'individual sound world of colour and incisive brilliance' (Jewish Renaissance Magazine April 2009). Recorded live with the Wallace Ensemble and cellist Gemma Rosefield.

The Etz Chayim Cello Concerto was written for the 70th anniversary of Belsize Square Synagogue. You can download the concerto by clicking the link above.

More Compositions

'Siren Song' (based on Ancient Greek Modes), performed by Hannah Rosenfelder and Anneke Hodnett

'Echoes from the voice of God', using biblical cantillation

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Benjamin Wolf has written articles for newspapers and journals. He has also recently given conference papers as part of his academic research. You can find details below.

Journalism:

  • 'Few Call for New Tunes'. The Financial Times, Weekend Section. September 27th 2003. Download article here
  • 'Not Just Midsummer Madness'. The Financial Times, Weekend Section. July 1st 2006. Download article here

Reviews:

  • Purcell Room, March 12th 2003. The Pianola Journal. Download here.

 Academic Papers and Articles:

  • Just too bourgeois? Light music, Academia and the BBC (RMA Conference, July 2010)
  • The Symphony Orchestra and Musical Vitality (IMR Conference, ‘The Symphony Orchestra as Cultural Phenomenon’, July 2010)
  • Chasing Your Tail (Opera, Ballet and the Arts Council) (RMA Research Students’ Conference, January 2009
  • The Arts Council and Modernist Music (Musical Modernism in Britain; RMA Study Day, April 2008)
  • Light or Wrong (Musical Categories in early twentieth-century London) (Royal Holloway Postgraduate Research Forum)
  • Fighting for New Music – the Committee for the Promotion of New Music in the 1940s (Royal Holloway Postgraduate Study Day)
  • Music and Letters, Review of Christopher Fifield, 'Ibbs and Tillett, the Rise and Fall of a Musical Empire' - published February 2007.