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Some fascinating stuff in this week's action-packed Classical CD column: theartsdesk.com/classical-mu... @bernardhughes.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social @bostonsymphony.bsky.social @classicalcritic.bsky.social #shostakovich #meredithmonk #benfolds #vicentelusitano #classicalcds
August 23, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Some fascinating stuff in this week's action-packed Classical CD column: theartsdesk.com/classical-mu... @bernardhughes.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social @bostonsymphony.bsky.social @classicalcritic.bsky.social #shostakovich #meredithmonk #benfolds #vicentelusitano #classicalcds
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★★★★ #BBCProms #AnoushkaShankar @anoushkashankar.bsky.social - Shankar's starry presence brings focus to this orchestral version of #Chapters, the culmination of a process which somehow worked, says @seb-scotney.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/new-music/bb...
BBC Proms: Anoushka Shankar 'Chapters' review - somehow, it worked
You can't explain stage presence like Anoushka Shankar’s. It just "is". When she steps out in front of a completely packed Royal Albert Hall, and utters a welcoming, exploratory, London-ish “Hi... wel...
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August 13, 2025 at 9:26 AM
★★★★ #BBCProms #AnoushkaShankar @anoushkashankar.bsky.social - Shankar's starry presence brings focus to this orchestral version of #Chapters, the culmination of a process which somehow worked, says @seb-scotney.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/new-music/bb...
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It's Saturday. It's time for Classical CD reviews! All good, as usual: www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu... @bernardhughes.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social #bartok #ades #mozart #stravinsky
July 5, 2025 at 5:32 AM
It's Saturday. It's time for Classical CD reviews! All good, as usual: www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu... @bernardhughes.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social #bartok #ades #mozart #stravinsky
Chuffed, very, to have my first ever Downbeat magazine byline downbeat.com/news/detail/...
German Jazz Prize Reflects the Support of a Nation
Germany is a nation steeped in music. And the Deutscher Jazzpreis (German Jazz Prize), an important and well-attended annual gathering in the country’s jazz calendar, serves as a good reminder of that...
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July 2, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Chuffed, very, to have my first ever Downbeat magazine byline downbeat.com/news/detail/...
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Big heap of reviews here. All good, as usual: theartsdesk.com/classical-mu... @bernardhughes.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social #michelberoff #arthurbliss #haydn #mozart #debussy @detroitsymphony.bsky.social #classical @warnerclassics.bsky.social
June 21, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Big heap of reviews here. All good, as usual: theartsdesk.com/classical-mu... @bernardhughes.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social #michelberoff #arthurbliss #haydn #mozart #debussy @detroitsymphony.bsky.social #classical @warnerclassics.bsky.social
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Wir haben mit Hannes Möller (Projektleitung Deutscher Jazzpreis) und Johanna Schneider (Jazzmusikerin & Deutsche Jazzunion) auf der jazzahead! 2025 über die Bedeutung, Entwicklung und Zukunft des Deutschen Jazzpreises gesprochen.
www.jazz-fun.de/interview-mi...
www.jazz-fun.de/interview-mi...
June 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Wir haben mit Hannes Möller (Projektleitung Deutscher Jazzpreis) und Johanna Schneider (Jazzmusikerin & Deutsche Jazzunion) auf der jazzahead! 2025 über die Bedeutung, Entwicklung und Zukunft des Deutschen Jazzpreises gesprochen.
www.jazz-fun.de/interview-mi...
www.jazz-fun.de/interview-mi...
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What a beautiful album by bassist Anneleen Boehme. I had it on repeat today
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Eunoia by Anneleen Boehme on Apple Music
Album · 2025 · 9 Songs
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June 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
What a beautiful album by bassist Anneleen Boehme. I had it on repeat today
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Big box sets! Bassoons! Loads of fabulous stuff in this week's sizzling pile of CD reviews. Read on: theartsdesk.com/classical-mu... @seb-scotney.bsky.social @londonsymphony.bsky.social #bassoons #bruckner #purcell
June 7, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Big box sets! Bassoons! Loads of fabulous stuff in this week's sizzling pile of CD reviews. Read on: theartsdesk.com/classical-mu... @seb-scotney.bsky.social @londonsymphony.bsky.social #bassoons #bruckner #purcell
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The latest #ClassicalCDs from @grahamrickson.bsky.social @bernardhughes.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social Jelly Babies, porridge & kazoos, German art songs, French piano concertos and entertaining contemporary music www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...
May 17, 2025 at 10:12 AM
The latest #ClassicalCDs from @grahamrickson.bsky.social @bernardhughes.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social Jelly Babies, porridge & kazoos, German art songs, French piano concertos and entertaining contemporary music www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...
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Lots to enjoy here: theartsdesk.com/classical-mu... @bernardhughes.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social #classicalmusic #brahms #ravel @bostonsymphony.bsky.social #shostakovich
Classical CDs: Jelly Babies, porridge and kazoos
Brahms: Lieder Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Gerold Huber (piano) (Sony)
theartsdesk.com
May 17, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Your fortnightly slab of carefully curated classical content. All good, as usual: theartsdesk.com/classical-mu... @bernardhughes.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social @shekukm.bsky.social @royalphilorchestra.bsky.social
May 3, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Your fortnightly slab of carefully curated classical content. All good, as usual: theartsdesk.com/classical-mu... @bernardhughes.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social @shekukm.bsky.social @royalphilorchestra.bsky.social
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★★★★ A deep, subtle and constantly engaging album: Newfoundland Tristesse by Ronny Graupe's Szelest 'is all about disturbance and disruption' writes Sebastian Scotney theartsdesk.com/new-music/al...
Album: Ronny Graupe's Szelest - Newfoundland Tristesse
In this new album, three top-flight musicians based in Berlin, guitarist Ronny Graupe, Lucia Cadotsch (voice) and Kit Downes (piano) work collaboratively, superbly, as a real team. The music, some wel...
theartsdesk.com
April 18, 2025 at 9:25 AM
★★★★ A deep, subtle and constantly engaging album: Newfoundland Tristesse by Ronny Graupe's Szelest 'is all about disturbance and disruption' writes Sebastian Scotney theartsdesk.com/new-music/al...
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Sound on for a short sampler of Hear My Heart Sing, in a new recording out later this week by the brilliant Epiphoni Consort.
Hear My Heart Sing is a choral showpiece celebrating the joy of singing together through the biology and imagery of the heart
Hear My Heart Sing is a choral showpiece celebrating the joy of singing together through the biology and imagery of the heart
Bernard Hughes - Hear My Heart Sing (extracts)
YouTube video by Bernard Hughes
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April 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Sound on for a short sampler of Hear My Heart Sing, in a new recording out later this week by the brilliant Epiphoni Consort.
Hear My Heart Sing is a choral showpiece celebrating the joy of singing together through the biology and imagery of the heart
Hear My Heart Sing is a choral showpiece celebrating the joy of singing together through the biology and imagery of the heart
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The only biweekly online classical CD column you need. All good stuff, as usual: theartsdesk.com/classical-mu... @lporchestra.bsky.social @bernardhughes.bsky.social @thechoircefc.bsky.social #vivianmaier #filmphotography #elgar #classicalmusic
April 19, 2025 at 5:51 AM
The only biweekly online classical CD column you need. All good stuff, as usual: theartsdesk.com/classical-mu... @lporchestra.bsky.social @bernardhughes.bsky.social @thechoircefc.bsky.social #vivianmaier #filmphotography #elgar #classicalmusic
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Loved interviewing Anne Sebba about her astonishing new book:
inews.co.uk/culture/book...
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The Holocaust survivor whose musical talent saved her life
Anne Sebba's new book tells the remarkable story of the women's orchestra of Auschwitz
inews.co.uk
March 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Loved interviewing Anne Sebba about her astonishing new book:
inews.co.uk/culture/book...
inews.co.uk/culture/book...
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Happy birthday, PB! #Boulez100
The only way this could be better is if they'd included an interview with Paul Simon.
March 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Happy birthday, PB! #Boulez100
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Fish and 'bones in this week's enticing classical selection. Read on: www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu... @nmcrecordings.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social
March 22, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Fish and 'bones in this week's enticing classical selection. Read on: www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu... @nmcrecordings.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social
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#CLASSICALCDs from @grahamrickson.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social - Shipping lines, sabre dances and sea lice in neglected piano concertos, Italian art songs and new music for trombones theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...
Classical CDs: Shipping lines, sabre dances and sea lice
Donizetti: Songs Vols. 3 & 4 Michael Spyres (tenor), Carlo Rizzi (piano) – Vol. 3, Marie-Nicole Lemieux (mezzo-soprano), Giulio Zappa (piano) – Vol. 4. (Opera Rara)
theartsdesk.com
March 22, 2025 at 10:11 AM
#CLASSICALCDs from @grahamrickson.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social - Shipping lines, sabre dances and sea lice in neglected piano concertos, Italian art songs and new music for trombones theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...
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A FORM OF EXILE #EdwardSaid and Late Style #CityofLondonSinfonia @southbankcentre.bsky.social - Superlative actors and musicians in an over-ambitious event running to three hours - @davidnice.bsky.social on a baggy ferment of ideas and sounds theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...
A Form of Exile: Edward Said and Late Style, CLS, Wood, QEH review - baggy ferment of ideas and sounds
You could plan an entire concert season around the theme of “late style”, its paradoxes and variations. For this one-off, many of us expected a concentrated mesh of Edward Said’s only-connect observat...
theartsdesk.com
March 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
A FORM OF EXILE #EdwardSaid and Late Style #CityofLondonSinfonia @southbankcentre.bsky.social - Superlative actors and musicians in an over-ambitious event running to three hours - @davidnice.bsky.social on a baggy ferment of ideas and sounds theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...
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It's Saturday! Time for CLASSICAL CD REVIEWS. Loads of great stuff this week, especially the Rozsa: theartsdesk.com/classical-mu... @bernardhughes.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social @kirstymatheson.bsky.social @firsthandrecords.bsky.social @londonsymphony.bsky.social
March 8, 2025 at 7:03 AM
It's Saturday! Time for CLASSICAL CD REVIEWS. Loads of great stuff this week, especially the Rozsa: theartsdesk.com/classical-mu... @bernardhughes.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social @kirstymatheson.bsky.social @firsthandrecords.bsky.social @londonsymphony.bsky.social
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#BONHOEFFER - This film about the pastor accused of conspiring in the Hitler assassination plot raises more questions than it answers - @seb-scotney.bsky.social on a flawed biopic of a saintly man of courage theartsdesk.com/film/bonhoef...
Bonhoeffer review - flawed biopic of a saintly man of courage
The German theologian, pastor and anti-Nazi dissident Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was a saintly, courageous figure, of major historical significance. Those are good reasons to ensure that his stor...
theartsdesk.com
March 8, 2025 at 10:10 AM
#BONHOEFFER - This film about the pastor accused of conspiring in the Hitler assassination plot raises more questions than it answers - @seb-scotney.bsky.social on a flawed biopic of a saintly man of courage theartsdesk.com/film/bonhoef...
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#CLASSICALCDs from @grahamrickson.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social @bernardhughes.bsky.social - Funeral marches, festivals & film noir, as well as choral music, solo piano recitals & the best violin concerto you've never heard theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...
Classical CDs: Funeral marches, festivals and film noir
Quartets Through a Time of Change: music by Ravel, Durey, Tailleferre and Milhaud Brother Tree Sound (First Hand Records)
theartsdesk.com
March 8, 2025 at 10:44 AM
#CLASSICALCDs from @grahamrickson.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social @bernardhughes.bsky.social - Funeral marches, festivals & film noir, as well as choral music, solo piano recitals & the best violin concerto you've never heard theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...
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★★★★ #HelenCharlston #SholtoKynoch #TempleChurch - Coups de théâtre in a well-constructed programme, with fine singing, and powerful stage presence - review @seb-scotney.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...
Helen Charlston, Sholto Kynoch, Temple Church review - fine singing, powerful stage presence
Mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston just gets better and better, both as singer and as actor. Last night’s recital at Temple Church had an unusual and wide-ranging programme – consisting of a first half hop...
theartsdesk.com
February 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
★★★★ #HelenCharlston #SholtoKynoch #TempleChurch - Coups de théâtre in a well-constructed programme, with fine singing, and powerful stage presence - review @seb-scotney.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...
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#Artemis - #ARBORESQUE - A safe album from a band with a necessary message - but is there something, a spark maybe, missing here? asks @seb-scotney.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/new-music/al...
Album: Artemis - Arboresque
Spare a thought – please – for Leipzig-born pianist Jutta Hipp (1925-2003). In 1956, she became the very first woman to record albums in her own name for the Blue Note label. Earlier this month was th...
theartsdesk.com
February 23, 2025 at 10:53 PM
#Artemis - #ARBORESQUE - A safe album from a band with a necessary message - but is there something, a spark maybe, missing here? asks @seb-scotney.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/new-music/al...