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On Music


  • ‘Writing Beethoven Variations,’ Blog for London Review Bookshop, 12th February 2020

  • ‘Beethoven’s Crisis of 1812.’ The Telegraph, 1st March 2020

  • Words, Music and Science: The Writing of Allele and the collaboration between Ruth Padel and composer Michael Zev Gordon, on

  • ‘Music from the Genome (2010)’

  • ‘Around the Minotaur’: Harrison Birthwhistle’s opera The Minotaur, Royal Opera House Covent Garden Programme, April 2008

  • ‘How Strangely Fogo Burns: on a Madrigal by Thomas Weelkes,’ London Review of Books 2008

  • ‘On Playing the Viola,’ Radio 3 series The Essay, July 2008

  • On Strauss’s Ariadne Auf Naxos, Glyndebourne Festival Opera Programme, 2006

  • Piu Docile Sono: Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, Glyndebourne Touring Company Programme 2006

  • ‘There are No Male Groupies: Writing I’m A Man,’ Guardian, June 2000

  • Carol Singing and its History, Independent, December 1999

  • ‘Sex and Silence: Comte’ d’Orsay, Rossini’s Parody of Opera’s Erotic Dream’ Glyndebourne Opera Programme, 1998

  • ‘On Crete and the Female Voice in Opera’, London Review of Books 1997

Ruth with the Endellion Quartet at Daunt Marylebone, celebrating Beethoven Variations, in March 2020

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