Internationally respected authority on classical music, Mr. Christopher Breunig returns to this site. First, a little about him: Christopher trained and practiced as an architect, but over the years contributed music reviews to various publications, including the Sunday Times, Guardian and other specialist journals including International Piano and Classic Record Collector. Britten and Shostakovich It’s […]
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Okay, as the title already suggests, this compilation is made entirely of early 70s library music which was recorded for so called music libraries from whose stores, movie makers and TV producers could license certain titles for their productions. In most cases the compositions were a conglomerate of popular music genres such as funk, psychedelic, […]
Huw Stephens introduces Oxford quintet Foals, who are arguably one of the best live bands around today, as they take to the Main Stage at the legendary Reading Festival. The band made their debut at the event back in 2007, and over the last nine years have steadily climbed up the festival ranks to make […]
The Guardian writes: You & I features Buckley’s first recording sessions for Columbia, from February 1993, and features him covering the Smiths and Sly and the Family Stone. Jeff Buckley’s first recording sessions for Columbia Records have been unearthed, and are to be released as an album. You & I, which will come out 16 […]
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From the archives: It’s a bumper year for composer anniversaries. There’s the 100th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Britten, fabulously gifted and with something odd and dark that fascinates us. There’s the 200th of Giuseppe Verdi, musical voice of an entire nation. And there’s also the 200th of Richard Wagner, one of those […]
Anthony Tommasini writes ….. Jan Lisiecki, pianist; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Christian Zacharias. Deutsche Grammophon B0016888-02; CD. The pianist Jan Lisiecki, born in Canada to Polish parents, was 16 when he made this debut recording for Deutsche Grammophon and 17 when he made his debut with the New York Philharmonic in December. […]
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We are told: Limited edition 7CD Box Set featuring radio broadcasts from 1970 – 1995
Where did the terms retro-nuevo and skronk originate? Or hip-hop? Michaelangelo Matos runs through an exhaustive catalogue of music’s phrasemakers and trendsetters. MORE
In 1967, the already legendary guitarist Mike Bloomfield left the Paul Butterfield Blues Band to form the Electric Flag. Along with Barry Goldberg, Buddy Miles, Nick Gravenites and Harvey Brooks the band’s mission was to perform “American Music”. The and made their public debut at the legendary Monterrey Pop Festival in June 1967 and released […]
Daily Telegraph: Ever since Elvis Presley picked up his guitar in 1954 to holler That’s All Right Mama, Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup’s rhythm and blues hit from 1946, rock and roll has looked backwards to go forwards. MORE
On March 21st, 2016, a few weeks prior to the release of the Santana IV album, the classic line-up of Santana took to the stage at the House Of Blues in Las Vegas. The show they delivered combined tracks from the new album with the classic hits from the band s first three […]
Aisslinn Nosky. Photograph: Stu Rosner Stephen Pritchard writes … This is the third in the Boston-based Handel and Haydn’s Society’s live recordings of Haydn symphonies for Coro. Symphony No 8, Le Soir, joins their earlier recordings of Le Matin and Le Midi to complete the Esterházy trilogy of 1761. It follows the others in its concerto […]
A 1964 BBC Symphony Orchestra performance of Elgar’s Symphony No.2, conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent, has recently been issued on CD Killing two birds with one stone, as it were, Sir Thomas Beecham once described Karajan as ‘like Malcolm Sargent, only musical’. There’s a moment at the end of a BBC Symphony Orchestra performance of […]
We are told ….. After coming off a successful three week tour of Scandinavia in the fall of 1986, my band the Textones found that our album Midnight Mission was hard to follow up. Our next effort, Cedar Creek, came and went with little of the critical acclaim we were fortunate to have gotten on […]
We are told: The Shadows remain one of the most prolific bands of the last 60 years. They had 31 hit singles (plus 30 with Cliff Richard), which include 16 Top 10 hits (plus 25 more with Cliff), 5 No. 1 hits (plus 7 with Cliff). They’ve also spent 361 weeks on the albums chart […]
J. Gordon Holt (Stereophile) writes ….. We are aware that much of what we have to say about reproduced sound in these pages goes completely over the heads of a lot of our readers, simply because they have not heard live, un-amplified music recently enough (if ever) to relate their own listening experiences to our […]
Dmitri Tymocz: Roughly 2,500 years ago, Pythagoras observed that objects, such as the anvils he purportedly studied, produced harmonious sounds while vibrating at frequencies in simple whole-number ratios.More complex ratios gave rise to more dissonant sounds, which indicated that human beings were unconsciously sensitive to mathematical relationships inherent in nature. By showing that the world […]
• Classic live radio broadcast from 1978• Includes the entire broadcast• Digitally remastered for greatly enhanced sound quality• Background liners Stephen Stills was (and still is) a passionate champion of liberal causes and Mimi Farina’s Bread and Roses Folk Festival was a highpoint for any discerning artist with such political persasion. Held at U.C. Berkeley’s Greek Theater from 2nd- […]
Tom Service writes ….. There are few parts of the classical music world that do not bear the mark of Boulez’s influence today. Tom Service picks 10 key works that represent the best of the composer and conductor, whose death aged 90 was ….. Continues HERE
The Austrian composer’s operas have long been accused of lousy drama and lacking tunes – how unfair, says John Allison Easier though it may be to put man on the moon than convince your average opera-lover that Haydn’s operas are worth taking seriously, thankfully some opera companies are brave enough to try the latter. Having […]
They tell us: New Wave-Synthpop Trio Electric Floor Release ‘Fader’ EP FOR FANS OF: Psychedelic Furs, Peter Murphy, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Foreign Resort, Interpol, Kasabian FOR SHARING Fader EP https://vipchoyo-sound-factory.bandcamp.com/album/electric-floor-fader Bluedive stream https://soundcloud.com/electricfloor/electric-floor-bluedive Bluedive video https://youtu.be/ZBIlJUCM_tU All photo credits to Debora Chiarelli “Vocals as compelling as Richard Butler from The Psychedelic Furs or Peter Murphy of […]
MANTRA STUDIOS BROADCAST 1977 FROM IGGY S 1977 US TOUR FEATURING BOWIE ON KEYBOARDS By 1976, proto-punk pioneer Iggy Pop had hit a major rut. Drug problems had led to the collapse of The Stooges, the band with whom he made his name, and he had checked himself into UCLA s neuropsychiatric institute in an […]