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Contributor
Paul Kildea

Paul Kildea is a conductor and writer and former artistic director of Wigmore Hall, London, UK. His most recent book, Chopin’s Piano: A Journey Through Romanticism (2018), is published by Penguin/Allen Lane.

Features
The Creation of the EU and its Impact on Music

‘Light was shone into the darkest corners of the continent to reveal the most wonderful traditions, which had been isolated by cold war ideologies and boundaries’

BY Paul Kildea |
Profiles
As Conductor and Composer, Oliver Knussen (1952–2018) Offered A ‘Seemingly Out-Of-Place Delicacy’

Knussen’s music laid out each component as ‘precarious, vulnerable, exposed’ – and his conducting similarly worked from the inside out

BY Paul Kildea |
Frieze
Studies for Player Piano

Conlon Nancarrow (Other Minds, 2008)

BY Paul Kildea |
Culture Digest
The Rest is Noise

Alex Ross (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2007)

BY Paul Kildea |
Opinion
Prose and Cons

The state of classical music criticism today

BY Paul Kildea |
Critic's Guides
Birth of a Nation

Poul Ruders' The Handmaid's Tale

BY Paul Kildea |