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9 hours, 47 minutes ago   -  Guardian

John Eliot Gardiner: Monteverdi and me

As he gets ready to conduct the Vespers for the 19th time, John Eliot Gardiner explains how it was Monteverdi's masterpiece that made him choose a career in music / My relationship with Monteverdi goes back to when ...

9 hours, 48 minutes ago   -  Guardian

Ars Nova Copenhagen/Hillier | Edinburgh classical review

Queen's Hall, Edinburgh / This programme of American and antipodean choral works, from Ars Nova Copenhagen and director Paul Hillier, certainly tied in with the festival's New World theme – but it also showcased the ...

10 hours, 17 minutes ago   -  Guardian

Melani: Motets | CD review

Concerto Italiano/ Alessandrini (Naive) / Most of the sacred music by Alessandro Melani (1639-1703) appears to have remained unnoticed and unperformed – until this recording and the concerts that led up to it – ...

 

10 hours, 33 minutes ago   -  Guardian

Aho: Symphony No 13; Piano Concerto No 2 | CD review

Siirala/Lahti SO/Vänskä (BIS) / Though Osmo Vänskä is hardly known for his conducting of contemporary music, he regularly makes an exception for the works of Kalevi Aho. Vänskä has been working ...

 

10 hours, 47 minutes ago   -  Guardian

Kathryn Tickell: 'This is so much more to me than just a band'

Kathryn Tickell has played the pipes with shepherds, jazz trios – even Sting. But her favourite collaboration is with the Penguin Cafe Orchestra / 'I never really wanted to learn the pipes," says Kathryn Tickell over ...

10 hours, 48 minutes ago   -  Guardian

A Bach Book for Harriet Cohen, etc | CD review

Jonathan Plowright (Hyperion) / The latest in Hyperion's series devoted to piano transcriptions of Bach brings together pieces by British composers, the centrepiece of which is a collection assembled by the pianist Harriet ...

11 hours, 3 minutes ago   -  Guardian

Dvorák: String Quartets Opp 51, 61, 105 & 106; String Quintet Op 97; Cypresses | CD review

Neubauer/Emerson String Quartet (Deutsche Grammophon, three CDs) / With the exception of the well known F major work Op 96, often known as the American Quartet, these are the last four string quartets that Dvorák ...

 

11 hours, 18 minutes ago   -  Guardian

If Blair absorbs me, Mahler's chord ousts him every time | Martin Kettle

That opening A of the composer's stunning first symphony, to be played at the Proms tomorrow night, still touches more than words / The offer of an exclusive pre-publication interview with Tony Blair about his memoir wasn't ...

11 hours, 18 minutes ago   -  Guardian

Stockhausen: Mantra | CD Review

Pestova/Meyer Piano Duo (Naxos) / Mantra, for two pianos with ring modulation, was a watershed in Stockhausen's development. Composed in 1970, it was the work that not only signalled his return to composing fully notated ...

13 hours, 37 minutes ago   -  Telegraph

Prom 2010: Prom 62: Gustav Mahler, Jugendorchester/Blomstedt, review

A nimble orchestra and a baritone with a sense of complete emotional honesty. Rating: * * * *

 

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