Pianist Angela Hewitt has played Bach everywhere from Beijing to Bogotá. But she always avoided his final work – thinking it was too tough. She relives how she overcame fear and major surgery to love The Art of Fugue. In August 2007, I set off on a 14-month recital tour performing Johann Sebastian Bach’s masterpiece […]
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To coincide with the Ten Years After’s eponymous debut release in 1967 Chrysalis Records are proud to present a 50th Anniversary 10 CD Box Set. This limited edition set includes a CD of previously unreleased material. To celebrate this special occasion, in November 2017 Chrysalis Records will release a brand new 10 CD Box Set, […]
From the New York Times: Liszt’s piano music is something between a mirror and a lie detector. Think flashy and self-serving as you play it, and so it responds. Think better thoughts, and the music transforms itself. Jon Nakamatsu, playing three Liszt pieces at the end of his recital at Alice Tully Hall on Wednesday, […]
Andrew Clements writes: Imogen Cooper sets out on her survey of Schumann’s complete piano music for Chandos with two of his greatest cycles. Alongside Carnaval and the Davidsbündlertänze, the eight pieces of the Fantasiestücke Op 12 and the eight of Kreisleriana Op 16 perhaps define Schumann’s special qualities as a composer for the piano better than […]
The German violinist Antje Weithaas, an independent-minded player with a career as soloist, chamber musician and conductor/director, has released her third volume of Bach and Ysaÿe. It’s a treat. Between pliant accounts of …… Continues HERE
This is the first ever release of “Songs From Tsongas” on CD. It is taken from Yes’ 35th Anniversary Tour in 2004, the last tour by the band to feature the classic line-up of Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Chris Squire, Rick Wakeman and Alan White. The concert was recorded at the Tsongas Arena in Lowell, […]
Held in Gold Creek Park, Woodinville, Washington between July 25th and 27th 1969, the Seattle Pop Festival featured Led Zeppelin, Chuck Berry, the Byrds, Chicago, Santana and many others. Riding high following the rapturous reception to their debut album earlier in the year, The Flying Burrito Brothers took the stage on Sunday to perform a […]
Poco’s two albums from Atlantic dating from 1982 and 1984 and both making the US Top 200. Paul Cotton and Rusty Young were still in the band and the single ‘Shoot For The Moon’ made the US Top 50.‘Inamorata’ features guest spots by former band members Timothy B Schmit, Ritchie Furay and George Grantham. Poco […]
Adam Sweeting writes: Legendary soprano Jessye Norman talks weight, race and what it really takes to be an opera star Please continue HERE
Despite their reputation as one of the most exciting live bands to ever rock an arena in the Seventies, Bad Company never released a live album during its meteoric rise to the top of the charts. That will soon change when Rhino introduces the first-ever official live album to spotlight the original Bad […]
We are told: Esoteric Recordings label is proud to announce the release of the very first 4 CD collection of every album and single track recorded by the legendary ATOMIC ROOSTER between 1970 – 1974. Sleeping for Years is a clamshell boxed set anthologising all the recordings made by the band on the classic albums […]
They tell us…… Now a UK release Rhino Handmade retraces the first steps of Buckley’s uncompromising musical journey with a two-disc set that includes both the stereo and mono versions of his debut. The second disc contains nearly two dozen unreleased recordings Buckley made in 1965 with The Bohemians and in 1966 with frequent songwriting […]
It is vital to record music that was once suppressed, works by composers who remain marginalised A mixture of talent, training and luck usually determines a composer’s success. But for Jewish composers banned during the Hitler years, the nature and quality of their music generally had little if anything to do with their exclusion. It […]
From the archives: Mozart and Verdi would be “outraged” to hear classical music was considered the “exclusive preserve of an educated elite”, Clemency Burton-Hill says. “Rock stars” of classical music such as Mozart and Verdi would be “outraged” to know their works are considered the “exclusive preserve of an educated elite”, Clemency Burton-Hill has said, […]
With the help of producer Ethan Johns, the Welsh singer’s barnacled baritone steers a steady course through Moog-soaked covers of favourite songs https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/tom-jones-review-surrounded-by-time-b1835077.html
Non-hippie devastating guitar-psych and PCP induced hard-rock!! Angel Dust Psychedelia is a “100% killers, no fillers” compilation featuring obscure and unknown 45s / unreleased acetates from the US, most of them released on private labels. Many local underground bands of the late 1960s-early 1970s lacked the money and/or material needed to make a full-length […]
1.Come On 2.Memphis Tennessee 3.Roll Over Beethoven 4.Don’t Lie To Me 5.You Better Move On 6.I Wanna Be Your Man 7.Mona 8.Walking The Dog 9.Bye Bye Johnny 10.Roll Over Beethoven 11.Beautiful Delilah 12.(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66 13.Cops And Robbers 14.You Better Move On 15.Mona 16.Hi-Heel Sneakers 17.Little By Little 18.I Just Want To […]
We are told ….. LIVE BOC BROADCAST RECORDING FROM LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK, IN 1977 The recording contained on this CD comes from a performance given while BOC were on the ‘Agents of Fortune Tour’. Recorded at New York’s Nassau Coliseum in the Uniondale area, out on Long Island, on 4th February 1977, the […]
These Concerti a due cori — concertos for two choirs (of instruments) — have occasionally received good recordings; Trevor Pinnock led one some years ago. But they’re not common items despite coming from the years in the late 1740s when Handel was revered. Their neglect may result from the fact that the music in them […]
We are told: Alan McGee was such a big fan of The Creation that he named his record label after the band, and named his own band after one of their songs – Biff Bang Pow. The Creation was formed in 1966 from beat combo The Mark Four, and was quickly signed to a production […]
We are told: 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 […]