The Long Count – review
This bizarre, semi-operatic production was greated with tentative, baffled but warm applause, which seems about right, writes John Lewis
Bill Frisell: Sign of Life: Music for the 858 Quartet – review
These pieces are warmer and rootsier than the studies on Gerhard Richter paintings this group specialised in previously, writes John Fordham
Daniel Barenboim – review
Barenboim's free concert at Tate Modern saw pure emotion ripple through the Turbine Hall's swimming-pool acoustic, writes Fiona Maddocks
Tim Whitehead: Colour Beginnings – review
Whitehead's tribute to Turner takes him and pianist Liam Noble through twisting, soft, speculative territory, writes John Fordham
Glenn Branca
Roundhouse, London
Play it again …
A life in music: Once confined to art galleries, Philip Glass's minimalism now attracts huge, mainstream audiences. Now 70, he celebrates a bright future for serious music.
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The Cribs, on tour | New Young Pony Club, on tour | Wilco, Minehead, London
Girls rule!
Pop: A festival curated by violin rockers Dirty Three was always in danger of becoming a macho Oz-rock fest, writes Katie Toms.
Razorlight
Arena, Newcastle
Bär/Oelze/Deutsch
Wigmore Hall, London
London Jazz Orchestra
three stars St James's, London
The life of Brian – and Mick, too
Bent Raj's photographic account of the Rolling Stones depicts a crucial turning point in their career, says Caroline Boucher
Mozart: Requiem (edited Levin); Adagio and Fugue K546: Gritton/ Wyn-Rogers/ Robinson/ Rose/ Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Chorus/ Mackerras
If the regular arrival of new recordings is any kind of accurate guide, Robert Levin’s version of Mozart’s Requiem, which remained unfinished at the composer’s death, is beginning to supplant the traditional Süssmayer completion. Charles Mackerras’s account makes the best … Continue reading
Tristan und Isolde
Glyndebourne festival
Berkeley centenary tribute
Wigmore Hall, London
Turbonegro
Garage, London
Tricky: Vulnerable
With Britpop’s memory kept alive by books and documentary films, it’s easy to forget that the mid-1990s were also a high-water mark for dance music. It saw the rise of a series of artists who seemed capable of transforming club … Continue reading
Mahler: Symphony No 3: Von Otter/ Vienna Phil/ Boulez
(Deutsche Grammophon, two CDs)
Mahler: Symphony No 3; Kindertotenlieder: DeYoung/ San Francisco Symphony/ Tilson Thomas
(San Francisco Symphony, 2 CDs)
San Francisco SO/Tilson Thomas
Barbican Hall, London
Terry Gibbs: A Tribute to Lionel Hampton
(Mack Records)
Keith Jarrett: Up For It
After two albums of sweepingly fresh and open improvisation in which Keith Jarrett despatched any lingering objections that his ceaseless work-rate over 30 years had burned out his spontaneity, here comes another standards album to celebrate the 20th anniversary of … Continue reading
BCMG/Malkki
CBSO Centre, Birmingham
LSO/Davis/ Benjamin
Barbican, London
Cheltenham jazz festival (II)
Cheltenham
Cheltenham jazz festival (I)
Cheltenham jazz festival
Quinteto Piazzolla
4 Stars Barbican, London
Craig David
Royal Albert Hall, London
JoAnne Brackeen
Ronnie Scott's, London
Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos 1-13: Borodin Quartet
(Chandos, four CDs)
Shostakovich: Violin Sonata Op 134; Viola Sonata Op 147: Kagan/ Bashmet/ Richter
The generation of Russian performers to which the pianists Tatiana Nikolayeva and Sviatoslav Richter as well as the original members of the Borodin Quartet belonged were Shostakovich’s contemporaries, and their recordings of his major works, together with those of Mstislav … Continue reading
Shostakovich: 24 Preludes & Fugues Op 87: Tatiana Nikolayeva
(Regis, three CDs)
Altbachisches Archiv: Cantus Cölln/ Concerto Palatino/ Junghanel
(Harmonia Mundi, two CDs)
Koechlin: Les Heures Persanes: Kathryn Stott
Literary inspirations lie behind the 16 pieces that make up Koechlin’s delectable cycle: fin-de-siècle travels to the Middle East, the exotically coloured novels of Pierre Loti and the Arabian Nights. The sequence, beautifully and unaffectedly played by Kathryn Stott, portrays … Continue reading