Nick Coleman writes: What it says on the tin. Kicks off with “Mutt Romney Blues” and skulks though “The Wall Street Part of Town” via “Guantanamo” while considering “The 90 and the 9″… MORE
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The chronological collection spans 20 years and features 58 previously unreleased tracks starting in 1976 circa A Night On The Town and working its way through the years with live renditions of classics like Maggie May, Every Picture Tells A Story, You Wear It Well, Some Guys Have All The Luck and Do Ya Think […]
Alongside his work with the Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia played prolifically with other musicians, and intermittently led a band under his own name, combining elements of blues, folk, country and jazz with strong improvisational elements. This superb set was recorded for broadcast on KSAT FM, and finds the band on terrific form as they tackle […]
HORACE CRANE … As Lennon got more into drugs and Yoko, it was McCartney who strove to keep the band together and moving forward. For some years, the others acquiesced and coasted on using each other as backing musicians. Eventually, they tired of his pushing and being his backing band, and of being Beatles at […]
KEN ECKERT … In the last photographs of the Beatles together, we can see their body language. I realize I may read too much into them. But they look so clearly sick of being together as a band, and itching to do things on their own or with other musical friends. We can only imagine […]
One of the greatest recording engineers out there, Eddie Kramer, known for recording artists such as the wildly celebrated Beatles, or the guitar legend Jimi Hendrix, the brilliant Led Zeppelin or the genius rock band Kiss. Yes, this man is up there with the best, and while he previously studied classical piano, also learning […]
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Gramophone magazine: From Byrd to Tippett, with recommended recordings of each work Please click HERE to continue reading.
Fiona Maddocks writes: Elgar’s only string quartet, a masterpiece of the chamber music repertoire premiered in 1918, is well established. That of his contemporary Delius, dating from a year earlier, is more of a rarity. The composer was discontented with his first (three-movement) attempt and reworked the opening movement and the wistful “Late Swallows” slow […]
Featuring new recordings of Chopin’s Nocturnes by Jan Lisiecki, Strauss’s Eine Alpensinfonie, Langgaard’s Music of the Abyss and more MORE
As fascinating as the design of high-end hardware can be, it goes without question that without musical software (or firmware, as our more computer-minded readers would have it) of an appropriately high standard, the whole business would be pointless. Stereophile’s interviews have therefore often featured engineers and producers whose recorded work reveals sound quality to […]
ThoughtCo write: What does an arranger do? His primary role is to arrange a piece of music based on the needs or requirements of a performer, a group of performers, a conductor, producer or music director. The arranger makes sure that every aspect of a music piece is well harmonized, from the instruments down to […]
Acclaimed actor Simon Russell Beale is fascinated by the concerto and how the role of the soloist has evolved from baroque times to now. In this Sunday Feature (exploring the theme of this year’s Free Thinking Festival – The One and the Many), Simon explores the complex dynamics between the soloist and orchestra, drawing parallels […]
Poignant dignity suffuses the prayers of German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, executed by the Nazis in 1945. In settings by Philip Moore they become powerful testaments of faith in the darkest of times, sung brilliantly here by the Choir of Westminster Abbey, alongside Howells’s Take Him, Earth, for Cherishing and Tavener’s The Peace That Surpasseth Understanding. […]
Just before his death the great maverick composer John Tavener, who played at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, told Ivan Hewett how he had previously cheated death many times. “You know, my consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment,” says John Tavener with a sudden, mischievous laugh. It’s a […]
Like great rivers, some voices go further, deeper, wider than others. Wrap them around a great song and they’ll take you places you don’t ever quite return from. Once heard, the voice of British folk-rock icon Linda Thompson is not forgotten. And like a river half-underground, half in spate, Thompson’s voice is all the more […]
First published in February 2014: LAWO Classics is a highly respected specialist recording label from Norway. Not to be confused with a well known audio console manufacturer, Vegard LAndaas and Thomas WOlden have just recorded their most ambitious project to date. Gustav Mahler’s First Symphony with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by their new Chief […]
The Pacifica Quartet continue their survey of the complete quartets of Dmitri Shostakovich, this time going back to the first four, dating from 1938 to 1949. As with last year’s Volume 1 (Quartets 5-8 plus one by Nikolai Miaskovsky), Cedille offers us two CDs for the price of one, with a bonus quartet by another […]
This performance of the symphony by the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marin Alsop is one of considerable power, writes Geoffrey Norris. MORE
The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, ‘When you are helping the Hebrew women during childbirth on the delivery stool, if you see that the baby is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.’ The midwives, however, feared God and didn’t […]
Brahms’s ubiquity on concert programmes means he’s a composer who needs more rescuing than most from the accreted myths not just of performance practice, but of how we think about the man and his music Continue reading HERE
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Originally published 2011 “A Stradivarius violin has been “recreated” using an X-ray scanner normally used to detect cancers and injuries, according to researchers. The US-based group used a computerised axial tomography (CAT) scanner on the 307-year-old instrument to reveal its secrets. They then used the data recovered to build “nearly exact copies”. MORE