Latest stories
-
Boxed Set Selections - January 2023
25th Jan 2023
January heavyweights include the Emerson Quartet's complete recordings on Deutsche Grammophon, all of the Argo & L’Oiseau-Lyre recordings made by the The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral Oxford and Simon Preston, and Jörg Demus's Bach recordings on Westminster.
-
BBC Music Magazine Awards 2023: Shortlist
24th Jan 2023
The nominations are just in and voting is open...
-
Jazzwise Editor's Choices - February 2023
24th Jan 2023
Jazzwise Editor's Choices from the February 2023 issue include new music by Lakecia Benjamin, Xhosa Cole and Rebecca Nash, as well as reissues and archival releases from Monty Alexander, Benny Goodman and Masahiko Togashi.
-
New Music Book Publications - 23rd January 2023
23rd Jan 2023
An insight into the conducting profession, a discussion of the impact of Nietzsche on the composition of Mahler's first four symphonies, books on performers including Dame Nellie Melba, Edith Piaf, and Fred Astaire, and topics such as music and technology, Western music philosophy, Enlightenment thought in relation to the late works of Beethoven and Schubert, experimental music, and the concept of voice in late eighteenth-century Italy.
-
Christopher Tin on The Lost Birds
22nd Jan 2023
The composer talks about his new work, calling attention to declining bird biodiversity through settings of Romantic poetry.
-
Sebastian Rochford & Kit Downes, 'A Short Diary'
20th Jan 2023
Drummer Sebastian Rochford enlists pianist Kit Downes to realise a collection of intimate pieces in tribute to his father, poet Gerard Rochford.
Featured product
A Short Diary
Sebastian Rochford, Kit Downes
-
Elgar's 'Viola Concerto' from Timothy Ridout
20th Jan 2023
The young British viola-player's account of the Cello Concerto as transcribed by Lionel Tertis is a compelling addition to the piece's distinguished discography on its own terms, with sensitive support from the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins.
-
New Release Round-Up - 20th January 2023
20th Jan 2023
Joseph Jongen from Ivan Ilić, Mozart from Peter Donohoe, Mahler from Claudia Huckle and Nicky Spence, and veteran Estonian conductor Neeme Järvi in concert.
-
Ivan Ilić on Joseph Jongen
19th Jan 2023
Ahead of the release of his recording of two sets of Préludes on Chandos tomorrow, the Serbian-American pianist talks to Katherine about the Belgian composer and teacher's 'huge appetite for contrast'.
-
International Classical Music Awards 2023
19th Jan 2023
The ICMA results were revealed yesterday, with winners including Ermonela Jaho, Alessandro Marangoni, Mahan Esfahani, and Asmik Grigorian.
-
Jazz New Release Round-Up - 19th January 2023
19th Jan 2023
The latest jazz releases include new ECM albums from Sebastian Rochford and Mette Henriette, Enrico Pieranunzi playing the music of John Lewis, and Wayne Shorter at the Detroit Jazz Festival.
-
Ralph Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
19th Jan 2023
Stainer & Bell's newly engraved vocal score of Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony as part of a brand-new edition of the work is a major landmark celebrating the composer’s 150th anniversary year. Find out more.
-
Ian Venables on the first recordings of his Requiem
18th Jan 2023
The composer talks to David about his Requiem, recorded on Somm Records in 2020 by the choir of Gloucester Cathedral, and more recently in its full orchestral version by the choir of Merton College Oxford and the Oxford Contemporary Sinfonia.
-
Gramophone Editor's Choices - January 2023
17th Jan 2023
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by Signor Gaetano - Mexican tenor Javier Camarena's 'hugely enjoyable and unusually satisfying' recital of arias from Donizetti's Italian operas on Pentatone.
-
Dussek on Dussek
16th Jan 2023
Pianist Michael Dussek talks about his new album of innovative music by his ancestor Jan Ladislav, and of the influence it had on Chopin.
-
Jeff Beck (1944-2023)
13th Jan 2023
The influential "guitarist's guitarist", who came to prominence as a member of The Yardbirds and as a formidable solo artist, has died aged 78.
-
Véronique Gens in Poulenc's La Voix Humaine
13th Jan 2023
The great French tragedienne tackles a role that’s surely been beckoning for years, and the results are every bit as compelling as you'd expect - with the Orchestre National de Lille providing some telling insights into the other side of this fraught phone-conversation...
-
Michael Feinberg, 'Blues Variant'
13th Jan 2023
The Atlanta-hailing bassist proves himself a foundational and compositional force on his latest quartet album, with guest contributions from Dave Liebman.
-
New Release Round-Up - 13th January 2023
13th Jan 2023
Elgar's 'Viola Concerto' from Timothy Ridout, Beethoven from Midori and Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Lully's Psyché from Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset, and an album commemorating the 400th anniversary of the deaths of William Byrd and Thomas Weelkes from The King's Singers & Fretwork.
-
Jazz New Release Round-Up - 12th January 2023
12th Jan 2023
The latest jazz releases include rare live performances from Albert Ayler, unreleased solo piano recordings by Esbjörn Svensson, and Michael Feinberg on Criss Cross.
