Frédéric Chopin: Disc One: Nocturnes 1 to 11 (Op 9 No 1 – 3, Op 15 No 1 – 3, Op 27 No 1 and 2,...
This viscerally exciting recording with the young Brasilian drummer, Igor Willcox at the helm of affairs bodes well for the new generation of musicians emerging from...
To the extent that the feast of Christmas is universally celebrated it would make eminent sense to create a soundtrack for the season – and the...
This recording by the Anat Cohen Tentet shows the clarinetist and her ensemble traversing the widest musical topography she has in a very long time, visiting...
It is impossible to over-estimate the importance of the great Peruvian musician and vocalist, Corina Bartra. But many aficionados of South American culture would likely agree...
Clearly there is at least a guiding spirit on throughout this performance Live at Club Helsinki by Club D’Elf. It seems almost hackneyed today to identify...
Cesar Cui: Prelude in G Minor; Prelude in A-flat Major; Sergei Ljapunov: Prelude Pastoral Op.54; Alexander Glazunov: Prelude and Fugue in D-minor Op. 98; Sergei Slonimsky:...
The beautiful mischief of Afro-Brasilian polyrhythms comes alive in this music by Kátia Moraes together with her entourage. The visceral energy that literally explodes from the...
Every hundred years or so the world receives a rare (a musician, poet, sculptor, painter or dancer) an artist the like of whom the world has...
Bianca Rossini has an extensive acting repertoire on both television and on large screen. She is also a fine singer and celebrates that part of her...
The core of this heavyweight, bluesy band comes from Joe Caro, who is surely at the height of his wild and wailing guitar and high and...
The untranslatable saudades is at the heart of the ineffably beautiful and beckoning heart of this music by the pianist and vocalist Abelita Mateus. Miss Mateus...
However you may choose to regard this disc – as an extended extended-play or as a very short CD – the effect of listening to Luck...
Putumayo World Music is a New York-based label that has few peers anywhere in the world of music. It single-handedly introduces listeners to music from every...
Jane Antonia Cornish: Into Silence; Anna Elashvili: vn; Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir vc; Caitlin Sullivan vc; Claire Bryant vc; Hamilton Berry vc; Vicky Chow pf In his life...
Of all the vocal-driven ensembles in the world of contemporary music there is none as compelling or beckoning as Banda Magda. In the music of this...
Maurice Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61: I. Modéré – Très franc – II. Assez lent – III. Assez animé – IV. Presque lent –...
No matter how much a man strives to experience joy in its purest form, he can only do so vicariously because he will never know what...
When we last heard of the violinist Alejandra Torres, she was heard supporting the Colombian contrabass guitarist bassist extraordinaire Juan Garcia-Herreros, better known as the ‘Snow...
The album Notes Over Poetry seems to indicate that the pianist Philippe Baden Powell is ready for his jump off the cliff and that too, without...
