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AllMusic Review by James Manheim [-] Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 13 in B flat major, Op. 130, is textually knotty in a way that few other Beethoven works are. Beethoven originally ended the work with the radical Grosse Fuge, Op. 133, heard at the end of this program by the Ehnes Quartet. It mystified audiences, […]
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In 1932, a musician called Gage Brewer began performing on one of the first electrically amplified Hawaiian guitars. The idea soon appealed to guitarists rendered almost inaudible in big swing bands, but six years passed before a jazz guitarist, George Barnes, first ….. MORE
TajMo marks a timely convergence of the talents of two unique American artists who’ve already built iconoclastic individual legacies that have extended and expanded blues traditions into adventurous new territory. The collaboration brings out the best in both artists, with the pair merging their distinctive voices, personalities and guitar styles to create vibrant, immediate music […]
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Jonathan Freeman-Attwood joins the Gramophone Podcast to discuss Baroque music’s greatest composer This week’s podcast is devoted to exploring the music, life and legacy of the greatest genius of Baroque music – and arguably of all music – JS Bach. Editor Martin Cullingford invited Bach specialist and Gramophone reviewer, the Royal Academy of Music’s Principal […]
A user writes: The number of songs which the BBC has banned is long and undistinguished. In fact I regularly use the BBC ban-list in debates when people talk about what ‘snowflakes’ we have become (looking at some of the older items on that list – we have always been snowflakes). But the era that […]
The world-famous tenor says that he and his colleagues feel as though they are in ‘straight-jackets’ Please click HERE to continue
Audiophile Audition / John Henry writes ….. This is a live version follow-up to an earlier studio album the pair entitled The Enchantment. Ten of the 11 tracks are repeats, but the improvisations go on about twice as long in each case. These are among the best duets ever recorded, and the rather strange combination […]
Wikipedia describes Confirmation Bias as this: The tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms or supports one’s prior beliefs or values. People display this bias when they select information that supports their views, ignoring contrary information, or when they interpret ambiguous evidence as supporting their existing attitudes. The […]
Jessica Duchen writes … He has been termed music’s greatest iconoclast. But in his centenary year, is John Cage going mainstream? The composer’s Musicircus airs at Aldeburgh Festival tonight; later this summer, a whole evening at the Proms is devoted to his works. Yet in his lifetime (1912-1992), struggling for a living, Cage (right) would […]
FROM OUR ARCHIVES YolanDa Brown presents six hours of jazz through the night, marking the opening of the London Jazz Festival, with some of the biggest names in jazz who have played the festival. Right Now
The shape of a room can be modelled using echoes produced from sound, new research has found. Like bats who emit sounds in order to navigate, researchers can now plug sounds into a computer algorithm to map a room. The team were able to build a full 3D image of a room using four microphones […]
They told us ….. For more than 12 years Marissa Nadler has perfected her own take on the exquisitely sculpted gothic American song form. On her seventh full-length,‘Strangers’, released on Bella Union, she has shed any self-imposed restrictions her earlier albums adhered to, stepped through a looking glass and created a truly monumental work. Her […]
Actually, Phase Linear (often nicknamed Flame Linear) had much more of a reputation for self destruction than harming other components. Phase Linear made a number of very good components, but too often QC issues caused problems when they were new… so much so, that my local dealer wouldn’t deliver an unopened amp to you – […]
I found this while perusing the vaults of Google Books… I’m referring to the story at the bottom of the page below… Please click HERE to continue
Jim Lesurf writes: “Bi-wiring” is a controversial topic. Some people are quite certain it makes an audible difference. Some others are convinced that it can’t actually make any difference at all. The purpose of this analysis is to try and decide whether it is at least theoretically feasible that bi-wiring can make any difference. To […]
Update: Eric has enabled embedding on his videos once more; he disabled the function recently. We’ve embedded a video from his YouTube channel below. According to Andy Warhol, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes — a concept that has gelled even more with the advent of the Internet. Well, yesterday a humble music store […]
Live at Record Plant in Los Angeles, 19th September 1974 (Vinyl LP) Recorded for the “Live At The Record Plant” radio series, the show begins with legendary KMET-FM disc jockey B. Mitchell Reed introducing the group with: “Tonight we’re very happy to present Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Bob Welch, Doug Graves – in […]