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Month: March 2021
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From the archives The Venezuelan conductor showed how poor children could become musicians. Julian Lloyd Webber explains how he was determined to do the same here. Continue
The premiere Ludwig van Beethoven had in mind should have taken place in the Gothic splendour of Olmütz Cathedral. But the first known performance of his newly uncovered setting of a piece of plainchant took place in a modern, pine-clad lecture theatre in Manchester yesterday. MORE
During the early 1970s Roy Buchanan was feted as the greatest rock guitarist the world had ever known. This superb new CD from Jasmine takes a step back into his early career where he spent many years scuffling as a guitar slinger in numerous bands and doing a substantial amount of session work. Collected across […]
PAUL McGOWAN: ’ll continue with the story of the invention of an electronically scalable room but today wanted to tell you about something I’ve been listening to that has me running around the PS offices grabbing whomever I can to come and listen. One of my readers wrote: “For a real sense of a massive […]
We are told: Carly’s classic comeback album celebrates turning 30 with adeluxe edition curated by the lady herself… Carly Simon first burst on to the pop scene in 1971 when herdebut Elektra single, ‘That’s The Way I’ve Always Heard ItShould Be’, landed in the US top ten. Two years later herlegendary #1 hit ‘You’re So […]
This 3CD/1DVD set is the most comprehensive compilation yet of the group’s recordings, including hitherto unseen television footage, previously unreleased live recordings from a festival in Rotterdam (both from August 1970) and, for the first time, the official release of the seven existing tracks which Fotheringay recorded in session for BBC radio. The final […]
Rebecca Omordia and Mark Bebbington. Fiona Maddocks writes …. Among Vaughan Williams’s compositional outpourings, only one piece readily comes to mind with a prominent piano part: the song cycle On Wenlock Edge. Thanks to this intriguing disc we realise there was more, the best of it for two players. Arrangements of his Fantasia on a […]
We are told ….. Glenn Frey & Joe Walsh, live in Chicago, IL on 16th June 1993 Though their relationship had been fraught in recent years, between March and July 1993 Glenn Frey and Joe Walsh set aside their differences and travelled the US on a tour they named ‘Party Of Two’. Performing a cross-section […]
PETE SEEGER & ROGER McGUINN: IN THEIR OWN WORDS LIVE AT THE BOTTOM LINE (May 18, 1994) with VIN SCELSA Pete Seeger & Roger McGuinn: Live at the Bottom Line The historic first meeting of two generations of folk masters happened only once, and it happened at The Bottom Line. Over the course of one […]
Many orchestral cognoscenti have long considered the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to have the finest orchestral brass section in the world; certainly, it ranks among the top three or four. All hail, then, to a disc that features the CSO brass players in all their refulgent splendor. Various arrangers are responsible for the versions performed here: […]
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One of the first and longest lasting country rock groups. POCO had their roots in the dying embers of BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD. This 2 CD collection covers material from 1969 to 1974 recorded for the Epic Label.During this period, four different line ups of the band recorded this material. Founder member RUSTY YOUNG was joined by JIM […]
Simon & Garfunkel: The Complete Albums Collection features a total of 11 albums, including all five of their studio albums, one soundtrack, four live albums, and the duo’s 14-times-platinum 1972 Greatest Hits disc. Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel‘s collaborative studio albums all were released between 1964 and 1970, the year the duo broke up. They enjoyed their commercial breakthrough with […]
Hi I have a pair of Kef loudspeakers, the baffle and drive unit assemblies look exactly like the Concerto’s but the cabinet dimensions are bigger 75x47x37 cm’s hwd, they are also finished in cream leather with white grills and a crome surround. The b139’s bass units have quite a wide alloy surround which i notice […]
Suite in D minor (1720) by Mr G. E. Handel played by Mr Francis Monkman formerly of the band ‘Curved Air’. The album is ‘A Harpischord Sampler‘. £3.54 off eBay including delivery. A ‘right-result’ I feel. The picture is of Handel. I have no idea what Mr Monkman looks like.
Originally published February 2015 A terrific album about love and death shows why Gretchen Peters was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall Of Fame Continues HERE
they tell us……. Seminal band Son Volt has announced the February 17 release of their new album, Notes Of Blue (Thirty Tigers). Led by the songwriting and vocals of Jay Farrar, Son Volt was one of the most instrumental and influential bands in launching the alt.country movement of the 1990’s. A movement that was the […]