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Janette Mason on ReWired
23rd Apr 2025
Pianist, composer and arranger Janette Mason has had an illustrious career. We discuss her latest project ReWired, take a closer look at her musical influences and achievements, and delve into her innate ability to arrange even the most familiar of tunes and turn them into something refreshing and new.
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Janette Mason
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - May 2025
22nd Apr 2025
Chris introduces next month's selection, headed by an 'alert, cohesive and significant' live recording of Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer from Edward Gardner and the Norwegian National Opera, with Gerald Finley in the title-role and Lise Davidsen as Senta.
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Lise Davidsen (Senta), Gerald Finley (The Dutchman), Brindley Sherratt (Daland), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Erik), Anna Kissjudit (Mary), Eirik Grøtvedt (Steersman) Orchestra and Chorus of Norwegian National Opera, Edward Gardner
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New Sheet Music Titles - 29th April
22nd Apr 2025
Alexis FFrench's album Classical Soul, a new addition to the Piano Player series, Angeline Bell's My Forest Notebook, Ben Crosland's Jazz Beans series, a collection of Portuguese Organ Music from Bärenreiter, and The Clariphant and the Kazoos.
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Author Focus: Paul Harris - Teaching Beginners
21st Apr 2025
In part three of our Author Focus series, Paul discusses setting the foundations for teaching beginners and the '4 Ps': posture, phonology, pulse, and personality.
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Breedlove Solo Pro: A Guitar Spotlight
19th Apr 2025
The Breedlove Solo Pro Edgeburst CE stands as a testament to exceptional guitar design, seamlessly marrying superior craftsmanship with a passionate commitment to sustainability.
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Hakan Başar - Maiden Voyage
18th Apr 2025
Recording his debut album at only fifteen years old, Hakan Başar is a jazz pianist that should be on everyone’s radar (if he isn’t already). Now at twenty, he presents his new album Maiden Voyage with Red Records, a fantastic collection of familiar tunes that have been adapted and reshaped for his piano trio.
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Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer from Edward Gardner in Oslo
18th Apr 2025
With Gerald Finley as an eloquent Dutchman and Lise Davidsen firing on all cylinders as the sea-captain's daughter whose love redeems him, this new live recording of Wagner's early opera emerges as a serious contender in a crowded field.
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New Release Round-Up - 18th April 2025
18th Apr 2025
Bruckner and Gesualdo from the Monteverdi Choir, a celebration of tango from French cellist Ophélie Gaillard, the complete songs of Ravel from Malcolm Martineau and friends, and Maurice Greene's 1737 oratorio Jephtha from the Early Opera Company and Christian Curnyn.
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New Release Round-Up - 18th April 2025
18th Apr 2025
Grammy winner Rhiannon Giddens explores fiddle and banjo traditions, guitarist Charlie Ballantine blends Americana roots with jazz, and vocalist Angela Verbrugge delivers soft yet stylistic nuance when undertaking familiar melodies.
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Holy Week with The Bevan Family Consort
17th Apr 2025
Four members of the British choir of cousins and siblings discuss their new album of music for Lent and Passiontide Attende Domine, released on Signum Classics earlier this month and featuring works by composers including Alfonso Ferrabosco, Girolamo Giacobbi, Mel Bonis and family friend Neil Wright.
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Rosa Feola on Niccolò Piccinni
16th Apr 2025
The Italian soprano discusses her new album of opera arias by the Bari-born composer (1728-1800), who enjoyed enormous early success in Rome before relocating to Paris at the invitation of Marie Antoinette.
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Peter Seiffert (1954-2025)
15th Apr 2025
The German tenor, an acclaimed Wagnerian who was a regular fixture at Bayreuth in the late 1990s and early 2000s, has died aged 71 following a long illness.
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New Music Book Publications - April 2025
15th Apr 2025
Biographies of composer Gustav Mahler and choreographer Martha Graham, a book telling the story of the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz, a new paperback edition of Robert Philip's A Little History of Music, a guide to JS Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, an analysis of Beethoven's violin sonatas, two books on medieval music, a new edition of Kofi Agawu's classic text on musical semiotics, and an exploration of the music of Duke Ellington.
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Sean Hickey on Sapiens
14th Apr 2025
The American composer (and Managing Director of Netherlands-based label PENTATONE) discusses his dual career and the genesis of his new solo piano work Sapiens, released on Dorian Sono Luminus earlier this month.
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Liszt from Leif Ove Andsnes
11th Apr 2025
The Norwegian pianist explores the reflective and portentous sides of Liszt, combining a little-known and overtly religious work for piano, choir and soloists with transfixing interpretations of some of his best-known and most beloved solo pieces.
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Paolo Fresu - Kind of MILES
11th Apr 2025
Paolo Fresu crafts a theatrical concert surrounding the legacy of Miles Davis, featuring classic material and brand new originals composed by Fresu himself. Separated into acoustic and electric sets, the Italian trumpeter and his ensemble celebrate the spirit and musical genius of the Prince of Darkness, all whilst keeping it personal and innovative.
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New Release Round-Up -11th April 2025
11th Apr 2025
This week the Kwashibu Area Band blend Ghanaian Highlife with jazz, reggae and dub influences, Melbourne trumpeter Niran Dasika looks to science fiction for inspiration, and Blue Note’s Gerald Clayton experiments with turntablism. The ensemble Enemy explore material new and old, and singer Savina Yannatou dedicates her new ECM album to the element of water.
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New Release Round-Up - 11th April 2025
11th Apr 2025
Ruth Gipps from Rumon Gamba and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Daughtery from Anne Akiko Meyers, the Albany Symphony Orchestra and David Alan Miller, Beethoven from Nicola Benedetti, the Aurora Orchestra and Nicholas Collon, and a recital of Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi from Eleonora Buratto, the Orchestra e Coro dell'Opera Carlo Felice Genova and Sesto Quatrini.
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Jeannette Sorrell on Le Tre Soprano
10th Apr 2025
The founder and music director of Apollo's Fire talks about the group's new album, placing the spotlight on the all-female 'concerto delle donne' that arose in Ferrara towards the end of the 16th century.
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Samantha Ege on Maestra
9th Apr 2025
The pianist and musicologist discusses her new recording of piano concertos by Julia Perry (the eponymous 'maestra') and Doreen Carwithen, released on Lorelt at the end of last month with Lontano and Odaline de la Martinez.
