Stephen Plaistow recalls the illustrious recorded history of Chopin’s oeuvre and offers a personal view of great Chopin interpreters Please click HERE to access the whole article. Thanks. Neil
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An unmistakeable voice, thrilling for its purity and power – here are just a few of Luciano Pavarotti’s finest recordings This article includes links to reviews in the Gramophone Reviews Database, which contains more than 45,000 reviews. To find out more about subscribing to the database, please visit: gramophone.co.uk/subscribe Continues HERE
In addition to the interesting and sometimes surprising recommendations (Gramophone December 2012) of Peter Dickinson, who is assuredly an expert on American music , I wish to add a few. Randall Thompson’s Second Symphony (1931), quintessentially American in its rhythms, is best represented by Leonard Bernstein’s Sony recording 60594. On the same recording, with the New York Philharmonic, in the Bernstein […]
Geoffrey Norris is left wondering what motivated Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky to make this recording Please click HERE to continue
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Partnership to continue with an exploration of the meeting points between classical and jazz MORE
Professor Trevor Cox writes ….. Sir Simon Rattle is to join the London Symphony Orchestra in 2017, and has been doing some strong lobbying to get a new concert hall in London. What is wrong with the current venues? And is it worth £100-200 million to build a new one? Simon Rattle has been lucky to have been resident […]
Presto Classical, in collaboration with six leading labels, has launched an initiative to raise funds for those suffering as result of the invasion of Ukraine. The specialist retailer has put together a selection of music by Ukrainian composers and artists, and the entire proceeds from sales of those albums will go directly to helping humanitarian […]
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Gewandhausorchester Leipzig/Andris Nelsons(Deutsche Grammophon, two CDs) The conductor’s latest journey through Bruckner (and Wagner) is typically extrovert, allowing the music to flow naturally MORE
A Welsh orchestra has dropped music by Russian composer Tchaikovsky from a concert because of the Ukraine war. Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra said it would be “inappropriate at this time” to perform the composer’s music after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The orchestra said a member had family in Ukraine and it was also aware some of […]
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I’m building my big library of recorded music. It’s a continual process and I’ve have noticed something interesting. In classical music traditionally the library by the name of the composer – Bach, Beethoven, Delius and so on. In contrast, when it comes to non-classical we tend to file by the name of the performer – […]
Society of Women Organists says adjustable benches would help ensure equal access to instrument https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/mar/01/bench-campaign-aims-to-bring-organ-playing-within-reach-of-more-women
While working in my office right now I have the internet station beethoven-radio.playtheradio.com playing gently in the background. Why? Because I ‘know’ far less Beethoven than I do Mozart. I use the word ‘know’ in its loosest sense. I can’t play a note! Not even one. There’s a Mozart internet station too – in a […]
Fiona Maddocks writes ….. Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto remains puzzlingly underplayed, a neoclassical masterpiece dating from 1931. The composer worried that, as a non-violinist, he wasn’t equipped to write idiomatically. It’s certainly fiercely hard, opening with big, strident chords and exploiting the instrument’s staccato brilliance. The inner movements, Arias I and II, are more song-like, mysterious […]