Jazzwise Editor's Choices from the October 2023 issue include new music from Balimaya Project, Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, Jaimie Branch, Matthew Halsall, Matana Roberts and Shear Brass, plus a series of reissues from Jean-Luc Ponty.
The Montenegrin guitarist explains why his upcoming album of music by Vivaldi, Marcello, Weiss, Rameau and others feels like 'standing on new ground' - and why JS Bach only came into the picture at the eleventh hour...
Jaw-dropping pyrotechnics from Isabelle Faust in Locatelli, a red-blooded *Dido & Aeneas* from La Nuova Musica, and an Offenbach operetta fizzing with all the fun of the fair from Paul Daniel and a sparky cast headed by Anne-Catherine Gillet and Virginie Verrez.
The pianist brings clear-eyed precision and *cantabile* beauty to a programme of works by JS Bach, Liszt, Berg and Busoni, released today on Sony Classical.
Puccini from Jonathan Tetelman, French song-cycles from Marie-Nicole Lemieux, George Walker's complete sinfonias from the National Symphony Orchestra & Gianandrea Noseda, and a nocturnal organ recital from Anna Lapwood.
Our round-up this week sees the release of Yussef Daye's long-awaited debut plus a first from Sean Mason, followed by a tribute to Mahalia Jackson from James Brandon Lewis and a welcome return from Joel Haynes, topped off with some experimental folk courtesy of Ellie Wilson.
The Austrian guitarist's sophomore outing with previous sidemen Scott Colley and Brian Blade proves to be a winning formula in this symmetrical slice of electric and acoustic enchantment.
The conductor discusses the world premiere recording of Parry's 1880 setting of scenes from Shelley's lyrical drama - the first performance of which was described by the musicologist Ernest Walker as 'a definite birthday for modern English music'...
This month's heavyweights include Vladimir Ashkenazy's complete chamber music & Lieder Recordings on Decca, a celebration of Dame Janet Baker's ninetieth birthday, two collections released in anticipation of next year's Bruckner bicentenary, and a tribute to the late Nicholas Angelich on Erato.
In the first instalment of our *Recollections* series, Hoi F. Cheu PhD (Director of the Centre for Humanities Research and Creativity at Laurentian University and Director of Doran Planetarium) recounts how a teenage encounter with Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony shaped his extraordinary dual career - and several close relationships...
Henle editions of Rachmaninoff and Liszt piano works; Christopher Tin's *The Lost Birds*; new Bärenreiter vocal scores; additions to the *Stringtastic* series; and Bartók guitar duets and string quartets.
A discussion of the OUP's recently-published collection of sacred and secular choral works by Black composers, with its editor Dr Marques Garrett - taking in Vicente Lusitano, Undine Smith Moore, R Nathaniel Dett (Dr Garrett's own particular labour of love) and more.
A discussion of the OUP's recently-published collection of sacred and secular choral works by Black composers, with its editor Dr Marques Garrett - taking in Vicente Lusitano, Undine Smith Moore, R Nathaniel Dett (Dr Garrett's own particular labour of love) and more.
Six years on from their award-winning recording of Dvořák's Piano Quintet No. 2, the first violinist and cellist of the Pavel Haas Quartet reunite with Giltburg for the complete piano trios in interpretations bursting with colour and vitality.
Offenbach's *La princesse de Trébizonde* from Opera Rara, Wagner's *Siegfried* from Sir Simon Rattle in Munich, a tribute to Agustín Barrios from guitarist Thibaut Garcia, and works inspired by the Amazon from Philharmonia Zurich & Simone Menezes.
Just back from the premiere in Aix in the midst of preparing scores for his summer tours, George kindly spoke with us about his latest opera *Picture a Day Like This*. Read the interview here.
For his latest album, the American saxman seeks to refine our understanding of our own place and surroundings in a compelling thematic journey across the United States.
The composer and librettist discuss their spine-tingling new opera fusing elements of Bram Stoker's *Dracula* and Euripides's *The Bacchae*, released on Pentatone earlier this month and starring countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo as Dionysus.