Landscapes of the Mind: The Music of John McCabe

John McCabe's impressive output covers almost every aspect of music from opera and large orchestral works to chamber music, solo piano and voice. He is one of the most outstanding examples of a composer-performer in today's musical society and divides his time and energies equally between both. His recordings of the piano music of Haydn, Howells, Satie, Hindemith, Bax, Nielsen and Rawsthorne have been reviewed with consistently high praise and he has won several awards. This older model of a practising musician is currently commanding much interest as the music profession continues to go through a period of radical change, in which diversity rather than specialism is a key issue. The essays in this volume have been brought together with a view of bringing new listeners to McCabe's music and to inform those who have already been introduced to it.McCabe is a keen traveller, and travel is a feature of his musical subjects. He is well-known and received as both performer and composer in North America and Australasia, amongst many other countries. Like many other British composers, McCabe is fascinated by landscape and many of his works evoke musical landscapes even if they do not all derive from actual places.