Concert Report: Guido Schiefen & Berlin Symphonics Live at the Berliner Philharmonie, March 16th 2008
CD Feature/ Anssi Karttunen & Kari Kriikku: "A Due" Clarinet and Cello: An ensemble-type which never hides the fact that it is “difficult”.
Labour of Love Torn between dedication and rejection: A case for and against the cello/clarinet constellation.
Julia Fischer & Sol Gabetta: Gramophone & Echo Award A double strike by two young performers has heralded a turn of the tides on the classical scene. At the ...
15 Questions to Velitchka Yotcheva Things are hardly ever the way the seem. Take Velitchka Yotcheva, for example. She was firmly raised in the Russian ...
CD Feature/ Sol Gabetta: "Il Progetto Vivaldi" The range of emotions is immense: Sol Gabetta is experienced enough not to believe in fairy tales.
15 Questions to Danjulo Ishizaka If he hadn't chosen for music, Danjulo Ishizaka might well be a pilot now according to his answer in this ...
CD Feature/ Jan Vogler: "Concerti Brillanti" World premiere recordings in all their timeless glory: Vogler lends a furious and unadjusted note to the music.
Maja Bogdanovic: Wins at Aldo Parisot Maja Bogdanovic has secured the first prize at the Aldo Parisot International Cello Competition.She is only the third winner of ...
CD Feature/ Zuill Bailey & Simone Dinnerstein: "Beethoven - Cello & Piano Sonatas Volume One" Conservative and revolutionary: Bailey and Dinnerstein revel in the unfiltered directness these pieces require.
CD Feature/ The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation: "Doomjazz Future Corpses!" Just like those good old Blue Note records: Cool eloquence and intellectual rawness.
Cd Feature/ Richard Harwood: "Debut - Beethoven, Chopin et al." A great chance to display expressiveness: Never too sweet nor too lyrical.
CD Feature/ Jan Vogler: "My Tunes" Applies a different set of colours, tastes and sonorities to a scene sometimes saturated by the violin.
15 Questions to Richard Boothby/Fretwork Richard Boothby is a man with an opinion. In our interview, he freely admits there is a crisis in Classical ...
15 Questions to Maja Bogdanovic Most artists hate algebra, but Maja is happy to put her entire career into two simple equations: "me + cello ...