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Wang plays the Fazıl Say / Arcadi Volodos Paraphrase on Mozart’s ‘Alla Turca’ Yuja Wang has been playing the Say/Volodos paraphrase on Mozart’s Rondo ‘Alla Turca’ for a while now, but recently she performed it in front of the Berlin Philharmonic in Berlin, which means that we can all now marvel at her virtuosity in […]
Hello, I’ve had several piano teachers who’ve taught me how to interpret classical music, learned the scales, a few arpeggios, a few things about chords… and I’m pretty advanced technically. However, I feel like I don’t even know a thing. Can’t improvise, can’t analyze, or understand hardly anything about music or what’s necessary to learn. […]
One of the delights of Apple products is their packaging. Easy to open, clean, simple, and elegant with a promise of more joy to come with the product itself. If the packaging is a joy think how nice what’s inside must be. What’s worth talking about is just how far removed they are from everyone […]
I have recently upgraded my hi-fi in a couple of ways and these changes have made me rethink my strategy for putting together a set of equipment on a relatively tight budget. Firstly, I had been using an NAD C320BEE as a pre-amp with an Arcam P75 power amp. I decided to upgrade these in […]
Andy Gill writes ….. There’s a burgeoning Scottish tradition of roots remixing thanks to the pioneering work of the late Martyn Bennett, but it’s rarely done as smoothly as Folksploitation, on which Broadcaster recontextualises old folk performances by Peggy Seeger, with a strong reggae flavour reminiscent of Little Axe’s remixes of blues material. MORE
“Jazz is notorious for being a difficult musical genre to appreciate. Many people believe they’re supposed to like it and that knowing about jazz impresses others. Despite this, most people still find it difficult to follow. Jazz experts say the key to appreciating jazz is to focus on how different musicians play off one another’s […]
In 1985, Miles Davis shocked the music world by moving from Columbia to Warner Bros. He immediately started working on an album called ‘Perfect Way’ after a tune by Scritti Politti, later renamed ‘Tutu’ by producer Tommy LiPuma. When ‘Tutu’ was released in 1986, it re-ignited Miles Davis’ career, crossing over into the rock and […]
DANIEL HARRIS WRITES … Who is responsible for the break up of a relationship, the person who finally gave up and walked out, or the other person? While Simon & Garfunkel started out as school chums performing together since their early teens, by the time of their Grammy winning final studio album, their philosophies on […]
In the past, they were the Queens, strong women who took an unconventional path. They were the Blues Women, and they changed the face of music. To understand their history is to understand not only a great deal about black history but about the history of the country as a whole. Today, blues women still […]
Overview: What could this possibly have to do with a music web site? Guest contributor Ray Purchase explains: Monty Python once did a sketch about the difference between film and video – yes, really they did, and it’s here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f-kfRREA8M The joke was that in 1970s television, scenes in the studio were shot on video, […]
If you’re looking for the best sonic solution for streaming music it matters how that music gets delivered. For example, if you’re connecting with USB then the computer matters: faster, quieter, better built will sound better. And the USB cable matters. And then there’s the requirement of an interface buffer to maximize sonics (the Matrix works great). […]
