The guitar’s ancestors include the gittern, the vihuela, the four-course Renaissance guitar, and of course the baroque guitar, all of which contributed to the development of...
Putumayo world Music is sad to inform its legion of followers that Dan Storper, the beloved founder of Putumayo, passed away on the morning of May...
In many respects these last two recordings by Beth Levin – Hammerklavier Live and Phantasmata – may share an allusion to the famous Heiligenstadt Testament, albeit...
The days when pianist and pedagogue Orli Shaham “played” the proverbial younger sibling to her more famous brother, the celebrated violinist Gil Shaham are over. With...
Simon Wynberg and the Chandos imprint have done it again. This time with Frederic Block: Chamber Works. But there is more: a masterpiece of a recording...
Barbara Hannigan is at Koerner Hall at the The Royal Conservatory. She enters, stage left, gliding her way to centre-stage like a Gaelic sprite, stops and...
By now, thanks in large part to the radio play a certain British musical family is getting, the Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 19 by...
The Barbican Quartet – violinists Amarins Wierdsma and Kate Malony, violist Christoph Slenczka and cellist Yoanna Prodanova – who met at the Guildhall School of Music,...
More and more these days, devotees of Brasilian music are spoilt for choice when it comes to a succession of fine recordings of older masters [Chico...
In common parlance, the word “sublime” is an adjective meaning awe-inspiringly grand, excellent or impressive, like the best chocolate fudge sundae you have ever had. Perhaps,...
There can be no doubt that Joe Brent – expectantly – threw down the immense gauntlet to the three co-conspirators that together [with him] make up...
How do you characterise a recording that is glorious in aspects both musical and non-musical? You could begin almost anywhere. However, how about with the extraordinary...
With every disc they release there always seems to be something new to admire about the Euclid Quartet – South Bend, Indiana’s celebrated string ensemble. There’s...
On the glorious repertoire of this celebração, Senzala e Favela, it isn’t the proverbial ghost of Banquo that graces an altogether festa para os ouvidos –...
With Beethoven – as with other composers – chamber music was, by definition, an intimate and personal means of musical expression. As a result, much of...
Even if Sheila Chandra never sings another note again [and she probably never will], she has certainly achieved artistic supremacy, the like of which lesser mortals...
Having already produced six other recordings in the series Music in Exile, Toronto’s celebrated ARC Ensemble [Artists of The Royal Conservatory] helmed by its intrepid Artistic...
One-of-a-kind Collections from Keith Richards, Jonathan Demme and Millions More Currently at Risk. Anonymous donor gives One Million dollars towards finding a permanent home In a...
There is something about listening to the music of Jarak Qaribak by Dudu Tassa and Jonny Greenwood against the backdrop of a monumentally destructive war in...
Not all the mythical tales of leprechauns and the ‘croc of gold at the end of the rainbow’ can disguise the often terrible, nearly 153-year guerilla...
