Levit’s double album of Bach, Brahms and Reger captures the lockdown mood. Plus, Wagner at Wahnfried, a rising-star pianist’s debut, and where Derek Jarman meets Henryk Górecki https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/dec/12/igor-levit-encounter-review-wagner-at-wahnfried-bayreuth-christian-thielemann-daumants-liepins-debut-strange-concord-derek-jarman-prospect-cottage-ben-whishaw
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I’m grateful to Ben Apfel for the link to the most interesting site. All too easy to spend money here as it caters very comprehensively for some sections of my musical taste. You can read about it HERE:
https://store.hmv.com/store/music/vinyl/before-the-beginning-live-1968-volume-1
Phill Jupitus and Clare Grogan want your stories, dedications and memories about a stack of classic BBC Music performances, around the theme of friendship. Check out the selections on the Clips page and email us jukebox@bbc.co.uk to request a song and give us your reason why. Choose from the likes of Carole King, Paul Simon, […]
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/jan/06/desert-island-discs-75-defining-moments-from-75-years-castaways
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Ph.D. writes a… Would you ever go out with someone who listens to Justin Bieber? Unfortunately, I do. My girlfriend and I have many common interests, but when it comes to music her love of mainstream pop is just hard for me to digest. So, what do we know about the psychology of […]
From Ma Rainey on Netflix and the Billie Holiday doc to a new book on Bessie Smith, the fearless innovators of American roots music are being recognised in bold new ways, says Stephanie Phillips MORE
Her mother blackmailed her, her husband Giovanni Battista Meneghini stole from her, and shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis was violent and abandoned her for Jackie Kennedy. Soprano Maria Callas was adored by audiences worldwide but she never knew real love offstage, and her life was even more tragic than previously realised, according to research. In writing […]
Presenting a herbal mixture of psychedelic remedies and freakbeat fantoms collected together for your listening pleasure. Ultimately rare and genuinely obscure sounds from around the world with a particular eye on the hidden rumblings of British psychedelia. Five discs spanning the psychedelic period with ultra-rare and previously un-compiled nuggets from Enough’s Enough, Wheels Of Time, […]
About a year ago, a curious new website appeared, claiming to represent The New Face Of Jazz. With so much of jazz’s public image oriented toward the music of decades past, it seemed important to follow. But who was this new face? How would it be profiled? Why was it being done? Who was behind it? […]
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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jan/13/brahms-complete-songs-vol-1-opp-32-43-86-and-105-review-masterful-and-revelatory-interpretation
Violinist Kopatchinskaja gives the remarkable Camerata Bern and cellist Gabetta space to impress in this vivid collection https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jan/14/plaisirs-illumines-works-by-veress-ginastera-coll-etc-review-patricia-kopatchinskaja-camerata-bern
More cohesive than many a posthumous release, Allen’s legacy is well-served here, especially on the more experimental tracks MORE
From the archives After Wilko Johnson was diagnosed with terminal cancer two years ago, his calm, philosophical acceptance of imminent death made him even more beloved and admired. And then the strangest thing happened: he didn’t die. So now what? A terrific read HERE
From the archives Hannah Ellis-Petersen writes:”Make no mistake,” declared George Ergatoudis, head of music at BBC Radio 1 and Radio 1Xtra, this month. “With very few exceptions, albums are edging closer to extinction.”It was enough for musicians and fans alike to take to social media in their droves to jump to the defence of a […]
Alexis Petridis writes as follows: Here’s a fact that might give you pause. It’s been nearly six years since Elbow released One Day Like This, the track that catapulted them from alt-rock band of perenially middling status to something approaching national treasurehood. Perhaps it doesn’t seem that long ago because One Day Like This is […]
Coming in at number one is Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), one of the best-known of all composers in classical music. Bach was born into one of the great musical families of the day. A natural genius at the keyboard, he mastered the organ and harpsichord and was simply a brilliant composer. Bach brought baroque music […]
We are told: With Byrd’s riffs and Stones swagger, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers burst onto the scene in ’76 blending British invasion, US garage rock with the urgency & vibrancy of current new wave bands. This is one of their earliest radio shows broadcast by KSAN-FM from the Record Plant, Sausalito on April […]
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By the mid-1970s, Johnny Cash had an enormous catalog of classics upon which to draw on his live performances. Backed by the Tennessee Three, he offers a wealth of them on this October 2, 1976 appearance on the Jamboree USA show, broadcast on WWVA in Wheeling, West Virginia. Sprinkled amongst the hits from the ‘50s, […]
In 2010, Sony presented Spirit’s first five albums in a budget-priced box set. There wasn’t anything extra, just five albums in a generic-looking slipcase. Great Britain’s Esoteric Recordings felt the band deserved better. Spirit’s first five albums are also included here with newly remastered sound — alongside a slew of associated outtakes, singles, […]
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Bryce Morrison recalls the flawless combination of Slavic passion and Gallic precision in this charismatic ‘singer’ pianist, who conducted a lifelong love affair with his audiences Please click HERE to access the whole article. Thanks. Neil