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DJ Handi's Archive Picks: Listen To What The DJ Found

4798 days ago
WFMU's Beware of the BlogIt's seldom I see pre-avant gaurde classical music on a WFMU playlist, so I look twice on spotting it. Bob Brainen played "Jeux" by Claude Debussy next to "Shadows Breaking Over My Head" by the Left Banke., Maybe my surprise... more info

Paperback Q&A: Norman Lebrecht on Why Mahler?

4801 days ago
Guardian MusicThe author explains how he came to abandon a conventional biography of the composer in favour of a 'club DJ' approach 'with lots of fast-forward and rewind'How did you come to write Why Mahler?I had been struggling with the question for most of my ad... more info

RSNO/Denève – review

4801 days ago
Guardian MusicUsher Hall, Edinburgh"Ladies and gentleman, bonsoir!", Stéphane Denève called out as usual from the podium, and received a booming "Bonsoir!" right back at him from the auditorium. The Royal Scottish National Orchestra's music director is entering ... more info

Pierre Boulez: modern master | Editorial

4804 days ago
Guardian MusicIt's as a result of his efforts that so much 20th-century music is now established in the concert repertoryThis weekend the Southbank Centre in London pays tribute to one of the most influential musicians of our age. In the 1970s and 80s Pierre Boule... more info

Fauré: Complete Chamber Music for Strings and Piano – review

4812 days ago
Guardian MusicCapuçon/Caussé/Capuçon/Angelich Dalberto/Quatuor Ebène(Virgin Classics, five CDs)Fauré composed chamber music more or less throughout his life, but it is the extraordinary series of works that he produced in the first decades of the 20th century... more info

De Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain; Piano Works – review

4826 days ago
Guardian MusicPerianes/BBCSO/Pons (Harmonia Mundi)Ambivalent, it would seem, about the piano, Manuel de Falla once famously told a journalist: "Virtuosity, with its concert tours, has always repelled me." His output for the instrument, with or without orchestra, w... more info

Karita Mattila – review

4830 days ago
Guardian MusicUsher Hall, EdinburghMalcolm Martineau was as superlative a piano accompanist as ever, but there was no doubting who stood centre-stage for this recital. In persona as much as in voice, Finnish soprano Karita Mattila declares herself the grande dame ... more info

Nero: Welcome Reality - review

4862 days ago
Guardian MusicNero have high concepts and big ideas to spare, but it's pop music they do best, says Alexis PetridisThere's a longstanding tradition that an artist who starts their own record company will use it to sign artists in their own image: they don't call ... more info

Prom 26: BBCSSO/Runnicles – review

4862 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Albert Hall, LondonYou can, on occasion, have too much of a good thing. Donald Runnicles's first Prom with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra opened with Debussy's Prélude à L'Après-Midi d'un Faune and went on to explore its influence on th... more info

Prom 19: BBCSO/Knussen – review

4866 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Albert Hall, LondonOliver Knussen seems to have taken up the cause of the Italian composer Niccolò Castiglioni, who died in 1996. Knussen has included Castiglioni's music in a couple of programmes with the London Sinfonietta, and made the exqu... more info

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