Sad news: Gerry Marsden – of Gerry and the Pacemakers & “You’ll Never Walk Alone” fame – has died at the age of 78.
Many Happy Returns to tenor Allan Clayton, 40 today.
Eloquence presents Ida Haendel: The Decca Legacy.
Dipping-in to this alluring collection celebrating the recently late Ida Haendel’s artistry is to find a previously unpublished recording of Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending, from 1997 with the London Philharmonic and Roger Norrington, something known about for...
Salzburg Festival 2021: Daniel Barenboim in Conversation with Festival President Helga Rabl-Stadler: “Music as an expression of humanity has suffered; that is what we must fight against.”
Daniel Barenboim and his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded in 1999, at the Salzburg Festival © Monika Rittershaus (SF, 03 January 2021) The turn of the year is always an occasion to look back and gaze into the future. The Festival’s President talks to Daniel...
Martha Argerich plays Domenico Scarlatti, D-minor Sonata Kk141, Verbier Festival 2009.
Thanks Eric: "to be downloaded, savored repeatedly and remain in awe." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh9WX7TKfkI
Many Happy Returns to David Atherton, 77 today.
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Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Day Concert 2021 conducted by Riccardo Muti [live relay]
From 10.15 this morning (UK time) I listened (on BBC Radio 3) and watched (BBC Two, sound muted) – not synchronised if only a few seconds apart, DAB arriving first – this latest of the Vienna Philharmonic’s NYD Concerts, which proved to be a tonic, many smiles and a...
SOME of my favourite recordings released last year, 2020 … and a few concert reviews.
I am not one for musical league tables or for pigeonholing musicians, so what follows, while far from arbitrary, is in no order whatsoever; it's simply as I recalled a particular release that I regard as special I included it below, so something has no doubt escaped...
