We are – as always – indebted to our friend Tony Besgrove for this terrific recommendation. He writes – “Shed a tear for Tom. Great keyboard solo in the middle – Stevie Nicks helping out. 7.4 million views and counting.”
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As one viewer wrote: “Can anyone hear one wrong note? I can’t. Just beautiful.” Quite so. Solace during the darkest of dark days – for me. MORE
The charismatic New Zealand soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa looks back at her life in song through forty years of classic performances from the BBC archives, from her first TV performance on The Harry Secombe Show in 1971 to her appearances on Top of the Pops to sing the rugby anthem World in Union in […]
Stephen Johnson analyses the music and the background to the music of Brahms’ 2nd Piano Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Jonathan Schiffman with piano soloist Martin Roscoe. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0249gtx
Callas sings Puccini’s Tosca with an unrivalled intensity Maria Callas’s 1953 recording of Tosca, opposite Giuseppe di Stefano’s Cavaradossi and Tito Gobbi’s Scarpia, remains one of the greatest of all opera recordings (go here for an insight into the tempestuous recording sessions). And here is Callas at Covent Garden in 1964, in Franco Zeffirelli’s production. […]
The conductor explores Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé and explains his novel approach to his new recording The new recording of Ravel’s complete Daphnis et Chloé by Les Siècles, Ensemble Aedes and François-Xavier Roth was an Editor’s Choice in the June issue, with Gramophone’s Mark Pullinger particularly beguiled by their novel use of ….. Continues HERE
Bonnie Raitt talks to billboard about blues musician b.b. king, fellow female musicians, and her 2016 tour.
Pop fans of a certain age (this includes me) may well remember The Move with fondness. They hailed from the Birmingham area, and in 1967 they were the first band to have a chart single played on the then ‘new’ radio station, BBC Radio 1. However they did have a harder, rockier edge to them; […]
In May 2005, Cream played a number of packed out reunion concerts at the Albert Hall. These concerts were attended by the great and the good from UK’s rock royalty. This video demonstrates the incredible musicianship still present in the trio – Jack Bruce’s bass and vocals, Ginger Baker’s brilliant drumming, and whilst I’m not […]
We are – as always – indebted to our friend Tony Besgrove for this terrific recommendation. He writes – “Rory at his greatest – clips from his most spectacular solos – such brilliant phrasing. Strats just don’t get so battered as this one.”
51 million views – and growing We are – as always – indebted to our friend Tony Besgrove for this terrific recommendation. He writes – “Prince owns the stage”
We are – as always – indebted to our friend Tony Besgrove for this terrific recommendation. He writes – “Warren is not everybody’s cup of tea – quite distinctive”
An Interview with Legendary Jazz Musician Max Roach completed as part of the Howard University Jazz Oral History Project. View More at http://library.howard.edu/jazz
We are – as always – indebted to our friend Tony Besgrove for this terrific recommendation. He writes – “Great guitar intro and band mix – feedback just in time..”
His system doesn’t sound near as good when he switches out the tone controls yet, popular wisdom is that tone controls suck. What’s the truth behind the matter? Watch Now Paul McGowan
We are – as always – indebted to our friend Tony Besgrove for this terrific recommendation. He writes – “NOTHING, BUT NOTHING says ‘rock’ as much as this video. The editing is unbelievably and stupidly busy, but the audio is something else. Funeral music extraordinaire.”
We are told …. This DVD contains a filmed rehearsal of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention at the legendary Beat Club in Bremen, Germany, on 6th October 1968. The music is largely one long improvisatory continuous performance rather than a run-through of their greatest hits, but is punctuated by Zappa directing the […]