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Stephen Moss writes: This year is the bicentenary of Richard Wagner’s birth, and to celebrate our new series takes an alphabetical tour of the composer, updated fortnightly. In our first stop, A stands for Alberich, antisemitism and Apocalypse Now. A is for Alberich, the vertically challenged, sex-crazed villain whose theft of the gold at the […]
Paul Tingen (Sound on Sound magazine) writes ….. Under the guidance of engineer and producer Maxime Le Guil, Vincent Delerm forsook grand orchestration for the humble piano — bowed, plucked and hammered… We had three principal constraints when making this record,” explains engineer, mixer, and co-producer Maxime Le Guil. “The first was that it was […]
“If one can only find the necessary harmony, life can be so wonderful.” Sviatoslav Richter MORE
Pianist Ivan Ilić embarks on a journey of discovery for his new album of Feldman, Scriabin and Cage Until a few years ago, I had no interest in reading composers’ biographies or anecdotes from their lives. I concentrated exclusively on the music. But then I had a couple of experiences that led to a change […]
From the archives The conductor is returning to the UK to become Music Director of the London Symphony Orchestra. What does he see as the responsibilities of such a role today, what’s happening with the new concert hall, and how do you restrain freedom-loving tortoises? Continues HERE
The June issue’s cover story explores the borders existing between genres, but in My Music, the feature in which we interview a leading figure from outside of the classical music world, landscape architect Kim Wilkie reflects on sound borders in an even wider sense. There’s usually a timely ‘peg’ as to who we interview in […]
= Back in April 1962, Arthur Jacobs met a young English conductor, Colin Davis, who’d recently been appointed music director of Sadler’s Wells. ‘The clamour for operatic records sung in English,’ wrote Philip Hope-Wallace in his February review of the Sadler’s Wells excerpts from Carmen, ‘is far greater than one might suppose by merely looking […]
Isn’t it obvious? Surely Bach’s music has that solid sense of incontrovertible “rightness”, with every note in its right and proper place, as if it had always been there and always will be. It seems not the work of a mere man, but something immutable and timeless reached down from the heavens, as if Bach […]
The Bargain that Never Was. Back in the early 1990s I bought the Philips Mozart Edition on subscription from Britannia at £6.99 per disc. At the time, I thought £6.99 per disc was a keen price. All told, the complete edition cost me well over £1,000. And now? Today, the Philips Mozart edition can be […]
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Anthony Horowitz on attending an awards ceremony in The Shard and a miserable night at the English National Opera http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10511091/Anthony-Horowitz-A-night-in-a-soaring-eyesore-and-a-flute-devoid-of-magic.html
Michael White (Gramophone magazine) writes: Like popes, conductors tend to carry on until they drop; and although Herbert Blomstedt insists that’s as far as comparisons go, he does happen to share with the current incumbent of the Holy See an 85th birthday this year – which (very like the pontiff) he’s facing in robust health, […]
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The thread starts as follows: “Just been listening to this wonderful playing. When I first went to school as a tiny boy in about 1962, I wasn’t very happy there to say the least. Being left-handed, if I dared to pick up a pencil in my left hand, I was rapped on the knuckles by […]
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Aaron Green / ThoughtCo writes: Great classical music for violin is always within arms reach, you just need to know where to look. These classical violin pieces were selected based on melody, popularity, and overall likability. Here’s a list for those of you looking to expand your classical music horizons or for anyone needing […]
Over his long and distinguished career, Philippe Entremont has frequently performed music of the great Viennese composers, though he has seldom recorded music by Franz Schubert, only offering rare recordings of the Trout Quintet and the Symphony No. 9 in C major, “The Great” in 2006. He admits that his interest in Schubert was limited […]
Generally I try to keep my emotions under control. Well, I’m a bloke – right, John? Some emotions emerge from time to time from the mental vault where I store them, usually the blind rage and physical fury variety. A pity, but true. 180 degrees away though, I do feel very strong emotions about music. […]
Three conductors, and a German thread Each chapter heading in My Century by Günter Grass is a year, from 1900-1999, and although Grass is somewhat disgraced by his belated admission that he joined the Waffen-SS, this fictionalised chronicle is nonetheless worth reading for the light it sheds on German thinking – not least on the […]
Renaud Capuçon’s playing of the Brahms: Violin Concerto, Berg: Violin Concerto makes this a remarkable disc, writes Geoffrey Norris. Please click HERE to continue
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