She’s Atomic Here in the UK, almost everybody loved Debbie Harry when her group Blondie was at its critical and commercial zenith during the late 1970s and up to 1981. Men and boys looked on in lust, while women and girls either wanted to be her or were so jealous that they just had to […]
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Rupert Christiansen writes: What role opera should play in our educational system is a problem that has baffled and exercised me for my 25 years as a critic – and lover – of this great if beleaguered art form. My feelings are complicated by the fact that my own path to opera was entirely self-motivated. […]
What got you started? I was a child prodigy at the piano: I started to play by ear at the age of seven, studied with a private teacher at eight, and at nine got a scholarship to the Juilliard school in New York. I then studied for 10 years to be a concert pianist, before I […]
They tell us….. Tracklist 1. Down On The Farm 2. Self Sufficient Man 3. Keep On Keepin’ On 4. Over You 5. The Way I Do 6. Purple Shadows 7. Freedom Road 8. Home 9. Hope 10. Heavy Weight 11. Coast Is Clear 12. _
The live recordings from 1949 to 1964 are being reissued to mark 40 years since Callas’s death Continues HERE
Branford Marsalis Quartet & leading jazz singer Kurt Elling co-operate on a full album, a mix of standards & new compostions. 1. There’s a Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon for New York 2. Blue Gardenia 3. From One Island to Another 4. Practical Arrangement 5. Doxy 6. I’m a Fool to Want You 7. West Virginia […]
From our extensive Altec archives:
12 CD set with 15 1/2 hours of music, including 7 hours of previously unreleased material. Includes the Dead’s nine Warner Bros. albums, digitally remastered in HDCD for superior quality. Contains a new 2-disc set, Birth of the Dead, featuring rare and previously unreleased recordings from the band’s pre-Warner days. Includes a 100-page book chronicling […]
First published 2012 The strings play in helicopters, the trumpeter’s on a trapeze, and a camel dances around while defecating planets. Alexis Petridis on Birmingham Opera Company’s bid to stage a mind-boggling Stockhausen opera. MORE
The Strawbs’ concert in the Bedrock series is known as ‘Greatest Hits Live’, testament to the definitive nature of the ten-song set performed in 1990 by Dave Cousins, Tony Hooper, Brian Willoughby, Richard Hudson, Rod Demick and Chris Parren. This line-up of the ever-British changing folk-rockers played for seven years from 1986 through to 1992 […]
DIMITRI KEN: From a fringe musician to a superstar of Hip Hop: Let me tell you about this French guy, I mean, this genius: guy, I mean, this genius: This is Alain Mion, a Jazz Funk pianist. Back in the 70s, he formed a group named Cortex, and they released 3 albums between 1975 and […]
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If you are a music-lover of a certain age, and it is the age of people who run the world, this is how a typical conversation about your abiding passion goes: you first of all lament the witless banality of reality shows, the ubiquity of Simon Cowell, and the way that singers can’t hold a […]
“In the early years of her career, it was extremely difficult for women to progress in the BBC, but Maddalena Fagandini became a brilliant mentor and trainer of younger programme makers. She had a wonderful ability to make people feel valued, as I found when working with her on The Devil’s Music for BBC1 in […]
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