Celebrate this year’s best recordings with Gramophone’s Awards issue! With this special offer, we’ll send you a category-winning album from this year’s Gramophone Awards when you purchase an annual subscription. Choose from: Recording of the Year (DVD): Korngold, Die tote Stadt / Kirill Petrenko, Bayerische Staatsoper (BSO Recordings) Piano category winner (CD): Beethoven, Diabelli Variations / Mitsuko Uchida (Decca) Instrumental category winner (CD): Ysaÿe, Sonatas for Solo Violin […]
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Video of the Day brings an excerpt of the live performance of Puccini’s opera La Bohème, performed in its entirety by violinist Mathieu van Bellen and pianist Mathias Halvorsen from the Beethoven-Haus Bonn. Arranged by the musicians themselves, the work brings together the parts of the soloists, the choir and the orchestra into a virtuosic piece for just […]
Landmark box set presents nine albums remastered in original, brilliant sound, as they were intended to be heard in the 1950s and ’60s Nine of Miles Davis’ earliest albums on Columbia Records, encompassing music that he recorded for the label in monaural sound from 1956 to 1961 (and released from 1957 to 1964), will be […]
We are told: Limited edition 4LP/4CD case-bound 24 page book-back box set. A Man I’d Rather Be’ (Part II) comprises Jansch’s late ’60s and early ’70s output, an under-rated era, no doubt influenced by the now well-established Pentangle sound. Bandmates Danny Thompson (bass) and Terry Cox (drums) regularly feature among the musicians as well as […]
If you’ve ever travelled abroad, you’ll know what it is to be an ‘alien’ I’ve never really labelled myself as one during my life on the road as a performing artist, but believe me, I’ve felt like an alien more times than I can count. Scratching my head about the food, the transport, the […]
AP writes: I’m not sure you can say it’s much better mixed than their other albums, but it certainly sounds better than most contemporary albums and that’s largely down to Geoff Emerick. The Beatles changed engineer after Rubber Soul – Norman Smith left EMI and became the manager of Pink Floyd. Geoff Emerick replaced him […]
Ten Years After are an English blues rock band, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Between 1968 and 1973, Ten Years After scored eight Top 40 albums on the UK Albums Chart. In addition they had twelve albums enter the US Billboard 200, and are best known for tracks such as “I’m […]
RS writes: Apparently he was, after the recording off the Live Evil album. Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler accused Ronnie James Dio and Vinnie Appice of going into the studio and turning up the volume level of their parts on the recording tape. That was their grounds for letting them both go. I suspect they […]
Brett & Kate McKay write: Jazz. It’s the music that many men say they like, but don’t actually know anything about. Which is a shame for a whole host of reasons. For starters, jazz has had a major influence on most popular music genres in the 20th century — rock, hip-hop, Latin…the list goes on […]
NA writes: Strangely, one of Bowie’s most (in)famous alter-egos, had a very short shelf-life. He moved from the blue eyed soul of Young Americans – what he called “plastic soul” – in the tail end of 1974 through 1975, into the Duke in 1976 for Station to Station and his Isolar tour of the same […]
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The solo debut of Kevin Ayers, originally released in 1969 on the Harvest label after his departure from The Soft Machine, was the start of a brilliant and unique career. “Joy Of A Toy” is one of the greatest examples of late 60s music opening up to new influences and experiences. The result is an […]
This new 4-CD box set includes 56 tracks spanning Winter’s entire major-label career from 1968 to the present day (his most recent album having been released in 2011). Though the two-time Grammy Award nominee is looking back with this comprehensive retrospective, he’s still very much an active artist, and will mark his birthday with a […]
Originally published 2014 Music lessons will be dominated by “dead white Germans” as a result of the Government’s planned exam reforms, musicians have claimed. Plans for the future of both GCSE and A-level music exams have singled out Western classical music between 1700 and 1900 as the only compulsory area of study – prompting complaints […]
In 2012, Omnivore Recordings issued a series of unreleased music from jazz legend Art Pepper on colored vinyl. Now Omnivore, in conjunction with Laurie Pepper and Widow’s Taste Music, proudly offer these landmark recordings on CD and digital. Neon Art: Volume Two includes three tunes drawn from the unissued performances of his 1981 tour of Japan. […]
In 1986 The Residents went on their second tour. Entitled “The 13th Anniversary Show” and featuring exceptional guitar wizard Philip Charles Lithman aka Snakefinger, the tour was a huge success in both America and Europe. The band played a mix of their then catalogue, presenting songs from “Meet the Residents”, “Not available”, “The Big Bubble”, […]
TR writes: For me it is George Harrison’s Somewhere In England. The studio album prior to that, George Harrison featured 5 tunes that even today are a joy to listen to, including “Blow Away”, “Not Guilty”, and the terrific “Love Comes To Everyone”. Somewhere in England was bland. Felt like Harrison was on automatic. No […]
On June 23, 1977, Sam ‘Lightnin’ Hopkins walked onto a small stage in a smoke & whisky filled club in Montreal and proceeded to lay down arguably his last great performance before his death 5 years later. “Lightnin’s Boogie – Live at The Rising Sun Celebrity Jazz Club” – remastered and available on vinyl for […]
Everything we choose is based on a reference—a model in our heads of what we should expect. Each of our internal references have been honed over the years. We know exactly how a human voice sounds; a violin; a piano. When we playback recordings of these familiar instruments and voices we evaluate their closeness to […]
CF writes: On balance, I’d say yes. But it’s not an easy question to answer because it depends on so many factors. Which speakers are we comparing? Are we taking the used price of old speakers against what can be bought new for the same amount, or are we inflation adjusting the old price for […]
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