On this week’s Gramophone Podcast, Editor Martin Cullingford talks to Santtu-Matias Rouvali, the Principal Conductor Designate of the Philharmonia Orchestra, about his first recording with the orchestra, excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, which is available now on Signum Classics. Continues HERE
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We are told A classic show. From Bill Graham’s fatherly pride intros “if there ever was a Godfather of Rock n Roll it’s this guy… Jerry Garcia” through highlights including an exquisite transition through Dark Star Jam> Me & My Uncle>Dark Star Jam>Sittin’, a wonderful Brown-eyed Woman and the only performance of I Washed My […]
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PART 1: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA THE beginning of the story of records and recording is claimed by some to reach back to ancient China, where a prince is said to have invented a box that would carry the human voice and reproduce it to anyone receiving the box; others instance the legend of […]
We are told ….. The double live album Dark Magus was recorded on March 30, 1974, at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Davis’ group at the time included bassist Michael Henderson, drummer Al Foster, percussionist James Mtume, saxophonist Dave Liebman, and guitarists Pete Cosey and Reggie Lucas. Dark Magus was produced by Teo Macero […]
The 1975 solo album from Yes’ late founder and bassist Chris Squire, Fish Out of Water. Squire, whose nickname was “The Fish,” recorded the album in the Spring and Summer of 1975 while Yes was on hiatus as members recorded their respective solo albums. The album sessions were a collaboration between Squire and his […]
From the archives: Ahead of the London Jazz Festival, American pianist Carla Bley talks to Ivan Hewett about her longevity, homeland, days as a cigarette girl and long battle with pop. If there were a poll to choose the First Lady of Jazz, chances are the choice would fall on a perilously thin, 75-year-old black-clad […]
Editor’s note: Today we welcome Mr. Ray Purchase as a guest contributor. His first piece for you sets the pace, tone and style of his writing. I’m not usually a talent-scout; well not in the conventional sense anyway. However Howard drew my attention to the carefully considered comments that Ray has applied to some of […]
Live music a go go this evening, from a set Bill Callahan recorded last week for Marc, Courtney Barnett live in the studio and The Rezillos from the BBC archive – great eh? There’s Anagram Sam and Rusholme Roulette – of course. Plus a treat for the end of the week (nearly) as Rob Hughes, […]
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10 Nov 2022 Available for 29 days Click HERE to Listen Penny Gore continues this week of programmes with a performance of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony from the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava. Jordi Savall brings us one of the Cantigas de Santa Maria every day this week, there’s Renaissance polyphony from Stile Antico, plus […]
Drummer/composer Dan Weiss has wide-ranging musical tastes, superb skills, and a rocking little Rega-based system in his cozy Brooklyn, New York apartment. Dan has drummed with many jazz greats, but it’s his own projects that have generated the greatest interest. He’s a thinking musician’s musician, one who astutely assesses the pros and cons of every […]
From our archives BBC Prom from the Royal Albert Hall which celebrates the career of composer, arranger, producer, conductor and all-round musical genius Quincy Jones. Jules Buckley and his Metropole Orkest lead the festivities on stage, celebrating Quincy’s compositions, arrangements and productions from a career that has lasted over half a century. The musical and […]
Trevor’s pick of the best in soul. Click HERE to listen
Rupert Christiansen recalls a memorable encounter with celebrated conductor Sir Georg Solti. MORE
They report: Kopatchinskaja, Currentzis and others take pieces from the past, and make them modern In his feature about Patricia Kopatchinskaja in the new issue of Gramophone, Andrew Mellor recalls her appearance at the Gramophone Awards in 2012. There have been many memorable performances at our annual event, but this is one that seems to get […]
First published in 2012 Professor Armand Leroi from Imperial College London explains why he thinks a Darwinian computer program that can evolve music from noise could kill off the composer. You might think that creating the perfect piece of music – whether it’s a classical great, jazz masterpiece or pop hit – is all down […]
The Miles Davis Quintet’s 1960 European tour featuring John Coltrane marked the end of the most dynamic front line partnership since Dizzy Gillespie And Charlie Parker. This edition features the Quintet’s complete April 8 1960 performance at Kongresshaus in Zurich Switzerland. Miles And Trane really stretched out on these tunes averaging about 14 minutes […]
Growing out of the R&B boom of the early 60s, Family’s sound evolved into a unique mix of blues, folk, jazz, psychedelia and high energy rock’n’roll built around the distinctive vocals of frontman Roger Chapman, Charlie Whitney’s innovative guitar playing and Rob Townsend’s thunderous drumming. Anyway was released in late 1970 as the band were […]
Jo Whiley presents a Radio 2 In Concert as Paloma Faith takes to the stage for a unique and intimate performance. The double-platinum singer-songwriter performs songs from her new album The Architect, along with some old favourites. Paloma is one of only two British female artists this decade to have their last three albums go […]
Hrayr Attarian writes: The discovery of an obscure, previously unknown, recording from a master musician is often but not always a source of celebration. Unfortunately the new release by Rare Live Recordings of pianist Thelonious Monk’s In Philadelphia 1960 with Steve Lacy is one of those occasions when it is not. MORE
A disciple of Schoenberg, Webern’s music has exercised a tremendous influence on contemporary composers, especially Boulez and Stockhausen. The son of an aristocratic mining engineer (Webern dropped the nobiliary ‘von’ when Austria became a republic after the First World War), it was while he was a student at the University of Vienna that he was […]