Classic Stereo recordings by the great British conductor Sir Adrian Boult are released in a wonderful new 79CD edition by Warner Classics this month, assembling in fine style his Columbia, EMI/HMV, Pye…
Category: CLASSICAL MUSIC
CHRISTOPH VON DOHNÁNYI (1929 – 2025): Obituary by Neil Fulwood
Christoph von Dohnányi died on 6 September 2025, two days shy of his 96th birthday. To say he’d led a full life would be an understatement. It’d be no exaggeration, in fact,…
CARRY ON SARGENT
Edwardian Dandy, savvy Savoyard and Imperial Father of the Proms, Sir Malcolm Sargent (1895 -1967) has, like many great musicians of the past, been all too easily typecast. Even before his death,…
KLAUS MÄKELÄ: A massive hope for the future – Robert Kenchington
Emerging from the ruins of a Classical music industry broken by recession, COVID and post millennial gimmickry, is a phenomenal new artist who within the space of only five years has become…
Carlos Kleiber: The idol with feet of clay – Robert Kenchington
The slow death of Carlos Kleiber
ALFRED BRENDEL (1931-2025) – Neil Fulwood
An Appreciation by Neil Fulwood How to describe Alfred Brendel? As a pianist, obviously – one of the greatest concert pianists who ever lived. A musician of immense talent and versatility.But also:…
The Symphonies of Hans Werner Henze – Jonathan Taylor
Gesamtkunstwerk in the Head: The Symphonies of Hans Werner Henze For all its claims to absolute music, the symphony has always been a hybrid – maybe even omnivorous – musical genre, constantly renewing…
Classical: Beethoven Outliers -VOX and Rudy Van Gelder!
On my weekly pilgrimages around the charity shops of Nottingham I have noticed an increasingly prevelant trend. There are NO rock or jazz records any more….NONE…unless already priced way beyond their feasible…
Rare Car Boot Violinists – Kogan and Oistrakh
One of the joys of car-booting is you never know what you might turn up. The charity shops have long since armed themselves with discogs and ebay, so much so that some…