BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Rumon Gamba/Elizabeth Watts
(Chandos)
The French composer – a contemporary of Debussy’s – wrote slender but perfectly-formed pieces of beguiling beauty
The welcome redis…
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The experience that coloured everything Britten went on to write ⊕
Three months after Bergen-Belsen was liberated, Britten and Yehudi Menuhin performed there. Survivor and cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was ‘transfixed’ – as she told the composer when they played to…
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 …
6 months ago
Boulanger: La Ville Morte album review – The celebrated teacher’s early opera is brought back to life ⊖
Harvey/Rubin/Dennis/Williams/Talea Ensemble/Goren
(Pentatone)
This early work by Nadia Boulanger - better known as the influential teacher – was never performed and survived only in vocal score. Despi…
8 months ago
Poem of the week: Simile by Éireann Lorsung ⊕
An elegant reflection on experience and imagination complicates a very familiar figure of speech
Simile
How does a simile work?
— Place something next to something
and say, here. (The here is where
…
11 months ago
The Ambassador Auditorium Recitals album review – a joyful reminder of the richness of Claudio Arrau ○
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Claudio Arrau
(First Hand Records)
Three recitals given by the Chilean pianist in the 70s and 80s are a feast of lucid and emphatic playing that hasn’t dated in the slightest
Those of us who were lucky …
13 months ago
La Mer: French Piano Trios album review – expansive, beguiling and unexpected ○
Neave Trio
(Chandos)
Works by Saint-Saëns, Mel Bonis and Sally Beamish’s imaginative reinterpretation of Debussy’s La Mer make for a disparate but rounded programme
Three French works make a disparate b…
1 years ago
‘She couldn’t walk, she couldn’t talk’: music therapy helped Joni Mitchell recover from a stroke – could it ward off depression and dementia too? ○
When his friend, the legendary songwriter, had a catastrophic stroke, neuroscientist Daniel Levitin put together a programme of music therapy. Now he’s recommending it for a whole range of conditions
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