One of the major topics of the London Book Fair this year, as indeed in many previous years, concerns the digitisation of books and how tha...
Showing posts with label CDs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CDs. Show all posts
A Slew of Strauss
Richard Strauss's 150th birthday has spurred a great slew of recordings, some new, some re-released. The trend reaches a particularly pr...
Back to Liederland
The world of Lieder is, to quote A.E. Housman, a 'land of lost content', full of 'happy highways' and not quite so happy hig...
Boreal Magic
In 2011 Hyperion Records released a disc of music by the Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds. It was something of a revelation and alongside t...
Lobt den Herrn!
Municipal, maestoso Mendelssohn can be a little moribund in the wrong hands. That is often what happens in performances of the composer'...
Beyond the Mozartkugeln
At the beginning of January, I made a resolution to go beyond my usual musical diet and explore other genres, principally 'the music of...
In praise of Florian Boesch
Anyone interested in Lieder will not be surprised at this post. But anyone who has not yet bought Hyperion Records' new disc, Der Wander...
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