As one viewer wrote: “Can anyone hear one wrong note? I can’t. Just beautiful.” Quite so. Solace during the darkest of dark days – for me. MORE
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Mozart’s Serenade No 10 for Winds, ‘Gran Partita’, third movement, Adagio For many, the third movement of Mozart’s ‘Gran Partita’ Serenade will be forever associated with the film Amadeus, in which the rival composer Salieri is confronted by the full force of the simple genius of Mozart’s music. The London Symphony Orchestra’s Wind Ensemble released […]
Kate Molleson writes ….. William Byrd was a Catholic in the service of an Anglican monarch; Benjamin Britten was a gay pacifist in second world war England. It never hurts to remember how many of the artists we end up deifying faced some kind of bigotry in their day. This album presents the two composers […]
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The conductor explores Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé and explains his novel approach to his new recording The new recording of Ravel’s complete Daphnis et Chloé by Les Siècles, Ensemble Aedes and François-Xavier Roth was an Editor’s Choice in the June issue, with Gramophone’s Mark Pullinger particularly beguiled by their novel use of ….. Continues HERE
They report: NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concert series hosts one of the brightest piano talents of his generation NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series on YouTube is an outstanding way to explore new music from all genres, and has hosted the likes of Iestyn Davies, Hilary Hahn and the Danish String Quartet in the past. The […]
Andrew Clements writes ….. Even Schumann’s greatest admirers – and I’d count myself among them – would never claim that his choral music is the most significant or rewarding part of his output. But Scenes from Goethe’s Faust, which he worked on for a decade and completed in 1853, a few months before his final […]
“Holiday shopping can be exhausting. And stressful. But a new video making the rounds on YouTube shows a smiling, if somewhat surprised crowd of shoppers after Yo-Yo Ma begins to perform at a downtown Chicago mall on Tuesday night. The setting is the Shops at North Bridge, a glossy mall on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. At […]
As a Stradivarius violin is sold in an online auction for a record £9.8m, what is it about the famous brand that brings musicians to their knees? MORE
He wrote this in his head in bed one night, slept on it, then wrote it the following day. Note for note. Absolute genius!
Callas sings Puccini’s Tosca with an unrivalled intensity Maria Callas’s 1953 recording of Tosca, opposite Giuseppe di Stefano’s Cavaradossi and Tito Gobbi’s Scarpia, remains one of the greatest of all opera recordings (go here for an insight into the tempestuous recording sessions). And here is Callas at Covent Garden in 1964, in Franco Zeffirelli’s production. […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMG6XCp8QOU A few comments from viewers … Oh my God! This beautifully! Divine sérénissime Tenía quince años la primera vez que escuche el concierto me sigue emocionando y asombrando la belleza de esta melodía tan sencilla y tan bien puesta
Three highly recommended recordings: a modern choice, a classic and a legendary account Continues HERE
No single production can handle all the facets of this fascinating opera, so imagination must come into play. Richard Lawrence selects the best recordings https://www.gramophone.co.uk/features/article/mozart-s-don-giovanni-a-guide-to-essential-recordings
BRUCKNER Symphony 8 MAHLER Symphony 6 Concertgebouw Orchestra/Eduard van Beinum Tahra TAH614-615 You sometimes wonder at the seeming profusion of immaculate copies of complete sets of 78s from which restoration engineers work. The source for 18 acetates of a Dutch Radio transmission of Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony, from April 1955? Eduard van Beinum’s Concertgebouw performance was […]
Barenboim and Waltz discuss the importance of the text in the respective creative disciplines Today’s video is a fascinating conversation between Daniel Barenboim and the actor Christoph Waltz in which they discuss the differences between the texts that they use in performance – for Barenboim the score, for Waltz the script. They also explore how […]
I was shocked! I mean, as anyone who heard the Perlman/Ashkenazy Decca LP when it was first released has to agree, this recording set new standards at the time. When I first encountered it, it quite literally blew my socks off. A new era in recorded sound had arrived. At least, that’s how it seemed. […]
Several recent recordings I would call notable have landed here on Holloway Hill in St. John’s. The first three have in common the presence of the Minnesota Orchestra and its conductor since 2003, Osmo Vanska. They are: Sibelius: Symphonies, #2 in D, Op. 43 and #5 in E flat Op. 82 BIS SACD 1986. These […]
50 of the finest Mozart recordings in history, plus extracts from the original Gramophone reviews, a playlist, and links to the albums on Apple Music https://www.gramophone.co.uk/features/article/the-50-best-wolfgang-amadeus-mozart-recordings
Johannes Brahms’s many masterpieces have a confidence and ebullience, an irresistible lyricism and melodic charm, and show no sign of losing their appeal more than 120 years after his death. There have been many outstanding recordings of Brahms’s music, far too many to include here, but the albums listed below will give you the best […]
