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Jay Capperauld’s macabre new work – Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death – is full of orchestral colour but felt unresolved. The premiere was preceded by serene performances of Wagner and Ives A ...

Birdsong, moonlight, planets, poetry, great art: all seem fair enough as inspiration for composers writing new music. But skulls? Somewhat less so. Especially when they’re not just any old skulls, but ...

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The Scottish Chamber Orchestra has announced its annual Summer Tour- and for one composer it’s a real homecoming to his Ayrshire roots. The orchestra is bringing world-class music to venues across ...

As titles of new pieces of music go, Jay Capperauld's 'Death In A Nutshell' has got to be one of the more unusual. In spoken or written language, 'in a nutshell' refers to summing something up in a ...

Wolf Hall composer Debbie Wiseman and Scottish classical composer Jay Capperauld are Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe's studio guests as they add five more tracks. Starting with a hip-shake in Colombia, ...

The star of this Prom was Scottish composer Jay Capperauld's Circadian Rhythms (172 Days until Dawn), written in lockdown Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose ...

Our subject today is death and classical music. There’s a story, Jay Capperauld tells me, about Anton Bruckner that is frankly rather morbid. It involves the Austrian composer fondling the skulls of ...