Martin Cullingford writes: Every year, around this time, I report back from the annual gathering of the classical industry at the Classical:NEXT conference. Bringing labels, distributors, innovators and artists together always breeds good ideas, goodwill and a better, shared understanding of where, as an industry, we are heading. Year after year, the constant is the […]
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We are told: In celebration of the centennial year of Woody Guthrie’s Birth, Nonesuch Records releases Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions. When American folk legend Woody Guthrie died in 1967 at the age of 55, he left behind a trove of more than one thousand sets of complete lyrics with no music. In 1995, his […]
Turn Me Up!™ is a non-profit music industry organization campaigning to give artists back the choice to release more dynamic records. To be clear, it’s not our goal to discourage loud records; they are, of course, a valid choice for many artists. We simply want to make the choice for a more dynamic record an […]
This is the 35th anniversary edition of the classic & essential concept album from ALAN PARSONS, which is celebrated with a deluxe x 37 trk, x2 CD package, featuring compelling & extensive unreleased & rare material. Includes extensive booklet, with new liner notes & rare photo’s. Disc: 1 1. May Be A Price To Pay 2. Games […]
From the archives: As his centenary year reaches a climax, Claudia Pritchard hails the composer Continue reading
We are told: A Collector s edition 2CD digipak of Quicksilver Messenger Service performing live in front of the Fillmore audience…. Classic line-up featuring the twin guitar attack of Gary Duncan and John Cipollina tearing through the band s best songs including Pride Of Man, Acapulco Gold & Silver, and Light Your Windows plus blues […]
In any respected artist’s career, there lies a milestone and September 1978 revealed an energy and aura in Bruce Springsteen that truly reflected that. Live at the Capitol Theater, Passaic, NJ from 19th September, 1978 boasts a seminal performance from Springsteen whose conviction was blindingly apparent on his home turf in New Jersey. Other than […]
Stravinsky’s father sent him to study criminal law and legal philosophy at St Petersburg University in 1901. Through his friendship with Vladimir and Andrei Rimsky-Korsakov, two sons of the great composer, Stravinsky became a family friend and a frequent visitor to Rimsky’s house. With Feodor Stravinsky’s death in 1902, Igor began taking lessons (free of […]
The Principal of the Birmingham Conservatoire talks to James Jolly Continues HERE
You’ve Never Had It So Cheap Which is just as well, because it’s shocking to see how cheap things have become. Most old classical LPs – even really nice ones in excellent condition – command no more than 50p to £1 – maybe £2 if you’re lucky. Used CDs fare little better, and can often […]
Angela Hewitt’s spectrum of touch, her fluency and sense of colour are deployed with enchantment in this Debussy: Suite bergamasque CD, writes Geoffrey Norris. MORE
Lauren Laverne curates an hour of her favourite new releases, this week from the likes of Tricky, Sufjan Stevens, Cut Copy and the spotlight is on Electro duo Jockstrap. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000mkpt
C is for Cosima Wagner; AKA Francesca Gaetana Cosima Liszt, illegitimate daughter of Franz Liszt; AKA Cosima von Bülow, wife of the conductor Hans von Bülow, who proved remarkably understanding when Cosima fell in love with the sexually rampant Wagner in 1863. Cosima was tall, aloof, beak-nosed, antisemitic and altogether a bit weird. According to […]
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We are told: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of the Moody Blues’ Days Of Future Passed. This 2CD/DVD deluxe set includes the full original 1967 stereo mix, which is being released on CD here for the first time. Due to a damaged master tape of the original mix, the album had been remixed in stereo in […]
Townes Van Zandt – TEXAS RAIN – The Texas Hill Country Recordings – Remastered Expanded Edition – Deluxe gatefold sleevePac CD edition At the turn of the ‘90s, Townes Van Zandt began recording a series of duets in Texas with a bunch of longtime admirers that included Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Jerry Jeff Walker, Freddy […]
Black Rainbow The first label variation on which Beatles records were pressed was the classic black label with a rainbow color band. This variation of the Black Rainbow label was first issued in the early sixties (T-6018) and has a glossy label. The perimeter print shows the word CANADA without brackets. This label variation was […]
Today I’m listening to the following and liking them VERY much – and you might too: Beechwood Sparks: “Sparks Fly Again” Nada Surf: “Jules & Jim” The Coal Porters “Draft Morning”
Spooky Tooth lead singer Mike Harrison’s three albums for Island Records, dating from 1971, 1972 and 1975 On the first album Harrison was backed by the Junkyard Angels, but on the other two a host of session musicians were used including the Memphis Horns, Barry Beckett, Kenny Buttrey and Wayne Jackson Between the second and […]
Collection of outakes, tracks 1-13 Recorded 11th February, 1963 14-20 Recorded 5th March, 1963 21-26 Recorded 12th September, 1963 27 Recorded 17 October, 1963All Tracks Words & Music By John Lennon & Paul McCartney, Except Don’t Bother Me, By George Harrison 1. There’s A Place – Take 1 2. There’s A Place – Take 2 […]
New research into how and when the muse strikes finds that even fairly mundane activities can feed in to new insights. Continue
Andrew Clements writes: No one would dispute that the first operatic masterpiece was Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, which was first performed in Mantua in 1607. But establishing what should be regarded as the very first opera of all, who composed it, and what that work consisted of, is much less straightforward. It is hard to pinpoint precisely […]
by Aaron Green Updated November 13, 2017 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) is one of the world’s most famous and influential composers of classical music. His music has been played all over the world for two centuries. Even if you’ve never been in a concert hall, if you’ve seen a movie—any movie—in your life, chances are […]