Year: 2022
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An essential guide to the greatest Schubert recordings, featuring 50 original Gramophone reviews, and a landmark series of three articles (‘The complete guide to Franz Schubert’), appearing online for the first time, which explore every aspect of Schubert’s extraordinary output and much more besides! Please click HERE to view
Hi Howard – I’m really sorry to hear about your decision to end Simply Stax – whenever I think of Stax – your there. It was such a personal service and I very much doubt it will be equalled. I think a lot of the good service comes from guys our age – people who […]
Originally published 2015 This shouldn’t work, but it does; people hug during Disorder and applaud in the middle of Shadowplay as the bassist plays the band’s entire catalogue on the 35th anniversary of Ian Curtis’s death Continues HERE
Presto Classical, in collaboration with six leading labels, has launched an initiative to raise funds for those suffering as result of the invasion of Ukraine. The specialist retailer has put together a selection of music by Ukrainian composers and artists, and the entire proceeds from sales of those albums will go directly to helping humanitarian […]
Interviews by Dave Simpson ‘Paul played me a rough version. When I heard that ‘N-n-n-nineteen’ hook I thought: What the heck? All my life I wanted to be a motorbike racer, until I had a bad crash and ended up in hospital for four months. While I was bedridden I listened to the radio all the time, […]
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Gramophone’s sister title International Piano celebrates the composer’s music International Piano, Gramophone’s sister magazine, has just launched a special Collectors’ Edition, Chopin: The Perfect Virtuoso. This 100-page publication provides a comprehensive portrait of the great Romantic pianist and composer, celebrating his timeless masterpieces and the artists who bring them alive. Drawing on nearly a quarter […]
New music of such variety, imagination and originality, there is something here for everyone Caroline Shaw What were you doing when you were 30 years old? Caroline Shaw is unlikely to forget, for this was her age when she received the Pulitzer Prize for music. The year was 2013, and the accolade was for her a […]
Nicola Benedetti’s Baroque in Battersea reminded us just what we’ve been missing Attending my first live concert in over a year felt wonderful. In the atmospheric Battersea Arts Centre Nicola Benedetti and her handpicked ensemble of some of period performance’s finest players were performing works from her new album of Italian Baroque music, on a sultry […]
In this soaring demonstration, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie illustrates how listening to music involves much more than simply letting sound waves hit your eardrums. http://www.ted.com/talks/evelyn_glennie_shows_how_to_listen?language=en
I have a Lenco 88 that’s been up in the shed for longer than I’d care to admit, and I now feel the urge to get it sorted at long last. I’ve started looking at plinths; what is the general consensus regarding slate vs. layered ply? I was going to go for an SME 3012/SPU, […]
Jonathan Barkan writes: This is one of the coolest ways I’ve seen of putting together a vinyl record. Apparently, back in the 1950′s, Russians who wanted to hear and share music would go dumpster diving at local hospitals to salvage exposed X-ray slides with the intent of repurposing them into vinyl records. According to […]
AK is an amazing forum for the depth and breadth of knowledge and opinions of members from all over the world. We spend a lot of time talking about the best equipment we own, but what of the worst? The models you were most disappointed in, were the most overhyped, represented the worst value for […]
From our image vault and so is FYI only because ….. we don’t have one for sale. PLEASE VISIT OUR HIFI GLOBAL MARKETPLACE OUR ENTIRE MICHELL ENG. ARCHIVE
The Lowther Voigt Museum is a private collection of vintage Lowther and Voigt products dating from the 1930’s to the 1970’s. The museum is not open to the public, but this website provides a virtual tour of the items in the collection.We anticipate adding further information and photos in the future, so please check back […]
A beginner’s guide to the 50 greatest Mahler recordings, featuring extracts from the original Gramophone reviews There are many outstanding recordings of Mahler’s music, far too many for us to include them all here, but we hope that this list will offer you some ideal points-of-departure in your explorations of Mahler’s unique musical universe. We […]