UNDERSTANDING: Streaming

PS AUDIO / Paul McGowan There are tons of misconceptions and even a few audio myths growing around the subject, so I think he’s right. Today we will start with a simple overview, then dig in a bit deeper in the days to follow. Creating a seamless streaming music experience requires a well-designed system comprising […]

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SPOTIFY: An ITIL® Case Study

Spotify is the largest global music streaming subscription service. It is building a two-sided music marketplace for users and artists, which is powered by data, analytics, and software. In this case study, Ola Källgården reveals how Olingo, a Swedish management consulting company, helped Spotify to embrace the principles of ITIL. https://www.axelos.com/case-studies-and-white-papers/spotify-itil-case-study

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RECOMMENDED PODCAST: Beethoven / Fifth Symphony from Munich

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 […]

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CHOPIN: Inspired by the intimate salon aesthetic prevalent in Chopin’s time, Haley recorded and produced the album on her …..

Classical pianist and Young Steinway Artist Haley Myles is releasing her second album, dedicated to Chopin’s Nocturnes. Inspired by the intimate salon aesthetic that was prevalent in Chopin’s time, Haley recorded and produced the album on her Steinway and Sons M at her home in Lyon, France.  ‘The Complete Nocturnes’ is a natural extension of […]

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Angela Hewitt on her new album, Love Songs

This week’s Podcast guest is pianist Angela Hewitt, who tells Editor Martin Cullingford about her beautiful new album ‘Love Songs’, transcriptions of songs by composers including Schumann, Schubert, Richard Strauss, Gluck, Grieg and De Falla – with arrangements by pianists and composers including Liszt, Godowsky, Grainger and Hewitt herself. The album is out today on […]

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Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto

Ian Skelly introduces music making from Andrew Manze in Germany alongside performances of works by Weber, Ligeti, Debussy, Haydn and Tchaikovsky. Arcangelo Corelli: Sonata No 1 in D Op5 – ii. Allegro (fuga)Andrew Manze (violin)Richard Egarr (harpsichord) Carl Maria von Weber: Overture – The Ruler of the Spirits Op27BBC PhilharmonicVassily Sinaisky (conductor) György Ligeti: Concert […]

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BLUE NOTE FOCUS

The new generation of talent meets a jazz institution as we play out tracks from the Blue Note re:imagined session. The session was recorded at the BBC’s Radio Theatre and features Ezra Collective as the house band, with guest performances from the likes of Yasmin Lacey, Jordan Rakei and Poppy Ajudha. We speak to Ezra […]

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