Stunning Acoustic Performance at Radio Branch. Broadcast on WMMS-FM 12th December 1972 Includes the entire broadcast Digitally remastered for greatly enhanced sound quality. Background liners Ry Cooder needs little introduction to a large majority as he has come to dominate the respect and admiration metered out by numerous artists and critics over the last five decades. […]
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A specially selected playlist including music by Haydn and Mozart, moments from Stockhausen’s electronic work ‘Hymnen’, and a track by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Details HERE
Tim Ashley writes: Glyndebourne, Lewes Alice Coote and Anna Stéphany give exceptional performances in Claus Guth’s intense new production of Mozart’s curious Roman tragedy Continues HERE
• 180 GRAM AUDIOPHILE VINYL • INSERT • AVAILABLE ON VINYL FOR THE FIRST TIME! Soul Journey (2003) is the fourth studio album by Gillian Welch. As with all of her previous releases, it is a collaboration with David Rawlings. In their preceding work, Welch and Rawlings had experimented with using only acoustic guitar and banjo […]
“With this recording we wish to present a fresh version of the most elegant violin concertos in the history of music. While respecting the origin and tradition of this music, we have sought a new and dynamic musical experience rooted in our present time. To us, Mozart is as solid as rock, as soft as […]
Cardboard sleeve reissue from Jimi Hendrix. Features gatefold cardboard sleeve made in UK. This bundle features the following albums: “L’ Olympia 68,” “Blues At Midnight,” “Live In Copenhagen.”
Lindsay Kemp explores the link between the two great composers… Composers of the past did not always know their predecessors’ work as we do. Mozart’s musical upbringing being utterly of its time, the music he heard in his formative years was principally that of his older contemporaries rather than of the previous generation. Travelling around Europe […]
they tell us …… This CD celebrates the 50th anniversary of Odessey and Oracle, recorded between June and August of 1967. Remastered from the best sources possible, the package includes 7 bonus tracks, (alternate versions and outtakes from the original recording sessions), never seen photos and new notes. Odessey and Oracle ranks #100 on Rolling […]
This 10CD collection includes the albums Phenomenon (1974), Force It (1975), No Heavy Petting (1976), Lights Out (1977), Obsession (1978), No Place To Run (1980), The Wild, the Willing, and the Innocent (1981), Mechanix (1982), Making Contact (1983) and Misdemeanour (1985). This box uses the remasters from 2007/8/9 and come with the extra tracks, so […]
Hannah Nepil writes: Taking part in Musicircus at Aldeburgh was a bewildering musical experience. They never told me that music journalism could be like this: that one day I’d be playing the violin at the Aldeburgh festival, at the mercy of the elements and the judgement of professional, bona-fide musicians who, on another occasion, I […]
Two discs. Two hours. Seven songs. It’s Deep Purple, captured live at the point where they were stretching infant hard rock to its breaking point with l-o-n-g guitar and keyboard solos (and on “Paint It Black,” an Ian Paice drum solo as well). The sheer length of some of these workouts is astonishing: “Wring That […]
We are told ….. 01 Right Now 02 Red Staggerwing 03 Michaelangelo 04 I Dug Up a Diamond 05 Born to Run 06 Red Dirt Girl 07 Band Introductions 08 Done With Bonaparte 09 Romeo & Juliet 10 Song for Sonny Liston 11 Belle Star 12 If This is Goodbye 13 So Far Away 14 […]
In 1972 Captain Beefheart released two albums; ‘The Spotlight Kid’ and ‘Clear Spot’. He also toured the UK and Europe with the Magic Band, even performing two concerts at the Royal Albert Hall as part of an extensive British and European tour. On the 12th April, in the middle of the European leg of the […]
Kate Molleson writes … Debussy looked east for inspiration, enthralled by Javanese gamelans and Japanese woodcuts. Toshio Hosokawa, born in Hiroshima in 1955, writes wispy music rooted in the western tradition. Pianist Momo Kodama grew up in Osaka and studied in Paris; her first ECM album paired Takemitsu with Ravel and Messiaen. You can […]
4CD Limited Edition Box featuring live FM broadcasts from South America. Bowie’s 1990 Sound + Vision tour was billed as a greatest hits tour. Bowie intended this to be a live swansong for his catalogue of old favourites, after which Bowie declared that they would disappear from his live performances. This powerful four disc anthology […]
We are told ….. Two legendary performances broadcast on the BBC Digitally remastered for greatly enhanced sound quality Background liners Traffic, live on BBC radio, 1967. Steve Winwood, Dave Mason, Chris Wood and Jim Capaldi formed Traffic in April 1967. Expectations ran high, and were triumphantly met by Paper Sun, which became a smash […]
After my experiences with “SART” I’m having a much more pleasurable listening experience with “In Praise of Dreams”. Hardly off my machine today, nor last Saturday for that matter. Deeply haunting. This was another eBay purchase for not a lot of money. I’ll probably purchase a few more and then I’ll post my thoughts. do […]
‘ Beethoven’s Heiligenstadt Testiment, written when he was in an anguished state whilst comming to terms with deafness. He moved forward to an explorative and innovative period in his life. Written in 1802, the same year he wrote his 8th Violin Sonata in G major, opus 30/3. The Heiligenstadt Testament is a letter written by Ludwig […]
This limited collector’s edition comes in a two-part rigid mirror-board box set with a 32-page, bound fan booklet, and contains the double CD, DVD and Blu-ray edition of the live spectacular, as well as the bonus CD “The Angelic Sessions” (exclusive studio recordings of selected songs that Black Sabbath did not perform on the tour […]
The pianist Charles Owen has recently released a two-CD set of Brahms’s late piano music (the Opp 76 and 79, as well as Opp 116-9 pieces) on Avie, also available to stream and download. James Jolly caught up with Charles recently for the latest Gramophone Podcast to talk about ……. Continues HERE
Besides releasing two classic longplayers and many more singles (including the smash, “Gloria”), touring/behaving badly all across America and appearing on TV shows like ‘Upbeat’ and ‘Where The Action Is’, the Shadows of Knight also ruled at suburban Chicago’s hands-down hippest teen club, The Cellar. Over the decades, their Cellar performances have become the stuff […]
This epic live radio broadcast captures ZZ Top at the very cusp of their worldwide success, recorded during the East coast leg of their 1980 breakthrough tour at the Capitol Theater in Passaic, New Jersey. Available on remastered CD and audiophile quality LP. 1. I Thank You 2. Waitin’ For The Bus 3. Jesus Just […]