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US composer Keir GoGwilt’s collaborative album uses poetry and atonal music to trace the roots of Spain’s sarabande dance: a fascinating listen, though not easy
Classical music aficionados wi…
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Do you suffer from organ failure? Here’s why you should give this mightiest of instruments a hearing ○
A Sunday morning Prom showcases the magnificent RAH instrument, but the organ’s not just for Bach – check out pioneering musicians from Jonny Greenwood to Kali Malone. Plus, Igor Levit is cancelled –…
31 days ago
Making earwax melt and teeth rattle: the project returning music to our bodies ⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Listeners in the 17th and 18th centuries experienced music in a startlingly vivid – and physical – way. A fascinating academic project is wondering if we should let ourselves be much more moved, and …
37 days ago
Dazzling, delightful – and unfairly dismissed: Stephen Hough on the art of the transcription ⊕⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Bach, Beethoven and Brahms did it. Liszt took it to such virtuosic heights that the entire genre almost collapsed. Ahead of his own album of transcriptions, the pianist and composer looks at the hist…
81 days ago
Menopause is tough. But it’s fantastic being a woman in her 60s ⊕⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
My girlfriends and I have more fun, more adventures, more independence than ever before. And as for the sex …
I met my boyfriend when he was playing Bach in the park. I was taking my usual jog past L…
3 months ago
Why Bach’s music is indestructible, whether on the mandolin, modern piano – or soundtracking murder ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
The German composer, born 341 years ago, dominates the classical charts and concert platforms, especially at this time of year. Here’s to his life-giving zombie music!
The musical world’s present for …
4 months ago
Can Bluey save classical music? Cartoon puppy’s all-encompassing soundtrack plays Bach and Beethoven to billions ⊕⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
In the hugely popular pre-school animation, composer Joff Bush references and rearranges classical tunes in all the right places – and never plays it for cheap laughs. Plus, the Wigmore Hall sees the…
Dukes Of Hazzard star Catherine Bach, 72, glows as she appears slimmer after emergency hospital visit ⊖
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The sighting comes shortly after her Dukes of Hazzard co-stars publicly sent their support to Bach due to her health woes, with former co-star Ben Jones first revealing what had sent her to the hospi…
5 months ago
Tamás Vásáry obituary ⊕
Conductor and pianist highly regarded for his elegant interpretations of Chopin and Liszt
The Hungarian pianist Tamás Vásáry, who has died aged 92, was highly regarded for his elegance and clarity of …
The Goldberg Variations album review – Yunchan Lim untangles Bach’s complex web of threads ⊕
Yunchan Lim
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The 21-year-old pianist gives a fine, muscular account of the Goldbergs, with touches of playfulness, in this live recording from Carnegie Hall
Yunchan Lim recorded the Goldberg Vari…