Also, happy 125th to the Wigmore Hall, and, the vivid soundworld of 16th-century Spain
A tale of two conductors on the west coast of America this week. Yesterday, the Los Angeles Philharmonic announce…
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The connoisseur of the crumhorn, the showman of the shawn: the brilliance of early music pioneer David Munrow ⊕⊕
Six decades ago, Munrow’s passionate and persuasive advocacy for early music opened audience’s eyes and ears – and took the rackett on to primetime TV. Fifty years after his early death, we look bac…
77 days ago
Can Bluey save classical music? Cartoon puppy’s all-encompassing soundtrack plays Bach and Beethoven to billions ⊕⊕
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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…
4 months ago
Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi review – big, generous, provocative music-making on a small stage ⊕⊕
Wigmore Hall, London
Grammy-winning Giddens fused folk, opera, jazz, pop and classical elements in a recital ‘honouring composers who don’t often get called composers’
‘Hopefully you didn’t come for ba…
The Goldberg Variations album review – Yunchan Lim untangles Bach’s complex web of threads ⊕
Yunchan Lim
(Decca)
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…
Leonkoro Quartet: Out of Vienna album review – a blazing exploration of Viennese modernism ⊕⊕
Leonkoro Quartet
(Alpha)
The young quartet give a fiercely alert account of Berg, Webern and Schulhoff – beautifully capturing Vienna’s prewar musical fault lines
Founded in Berlin in 2019, the Leonk…
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