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Erica Jeal writes: The Capuçon brothers, violinist Renaud and cellist Gautier, plus others including cellist Clemens Hagen make this lineup for Brahms’ two glorious string sextets something of a dream team. These recordings were made at last year’s Aix-en-Provence Easter festival, but there’s little bar the odd swoopy slide to remind us that it’s not […]
“As Nicholas Roeg’s film The Man Who Fell To Earth is screened across Britain next week, David Gritten revisits the bold imaginative film – and David Bowie, its orange-haired, alabaster star.” MORE
Billy Bragg writes as follows: Artists such as Bruce Springsteen recognised Seeger embodied the great struggles for civil rights – and saw him as a touchstone. Continue HERE
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01psct4/shirley-bassey-at-the-bbc
“Unless you have ever had to lift one, the piano is just about the perfect instrument. A machine for hitting tuned strings with soft hammers, pedals for expression, and not much else. Since its invention in the 18th century, it has changed relatively little – until now.” MORE
Victor L. Schermer writes: Benny Golson’s timeless ballad, “I Remember Clifford” is but one measure of the reverence and love with which Clifford Brown was regarded by musicians, friends, family, and fans. The affection in which he was held during his lifetime was made all the more poignant by his untimely death at the […]
When Beethoven wrote his Symphony No 1, he was young and at the height of his powers as both a pianist and a composer of chamber music, but he had also lived more than half his life. This symphony couldn’t have been written by Mozart, that’s for sure, but what about Haydn? I guess you’d […]
Brett Anderson believes that Suede’s debut album, winner of the Mercury Music Prize in 1993, probably has more cultural resonance than any other of their albums, as a pre-cursor to Britpop and a supplanter of grunge. It is also home to four ground-breaking singles. This deluxe edition features the album; the b-sides; a CD of […]
Neil Young’s marvellously idiosyncratic autobiography, Waging Heavy Peace, rummages through his 50-year career – and offered its writer a relief from music MORE
Howard Popeck … It’s with considerable embarrassment that I recall both my musical ignorance and my inverse snobbery about musical styles. Styles that I neither understood nor wanted to understand, for no good reason at all in the early days of Subjective Audio. I call those days my irrational time. They’ve been a recurring event […]
Melissa Locker (The Guardian) writes: His films have already put music at their heart – and now the director, currently making a film about Iggy Pop, wants to make his own sounds with his band Sqürl Please click HERE to continue
A 3CD box set collection chronicling Miles’ musical evolution in the studio from 1966-1968 working with his “second great quintet,” the latest edition in Columbia/Legacy’s acclaimed Miles Davis Bootleg Series provides an unprecedented look into the artist’s creative process, drawing on full session reels including all rehearsals, partial and alternate takes, studio conversation and more. […]
Rupert Christiansen writes: What role opera should play in our educational system is a problem that has baffled and exercised me for my 25 years as a critic – and lover – of this great if beleaguered art form. My feelings are complicated by the fact that my own path to opera was entirely self-motivated. […]
She’s Atomic Here in the UK, almost everybody loved Debbie Harry when her group Blondie was at its critical and commercial zenith during the late 1970s and up to 1981. Men and boys looked on in lust, while women and girls either wanted to be her or were so jealous that they just had to […]
What got you started? I was a child prodigy at the piano: I started to play by ear at the age of seven, studied with a private teacher at eight, and at nine got a scholarship to the Juilliard school in New York. I then studied for 10 years to be a concert pianist, before I […]
The live recordings from 1949 to 1964 are being reissued to mark 40 years since Callas’s death Continues HERE