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Classical CDs: Postcards, sighs and tap dancing (opens the original)
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We’re rebuilding theartsdesk to secure it as a bastion of real culture writing in the face of algorithmic recommendations and AI slop. Your participation is absolutely vital to this - subscribe today and be part of this movement. Elgar: Violin Concerto, Salut d’amour, Chanson de nuit, Sospiri etc Thomas Bowes (violin), Sinfonia Arcadiana/Nic Fallowfield (Rubicon) It’s taken me decades to get to grips with Elgar’s Violin Concerto, my Damascene conversion taking place during an accomplished amateu
Classical CDs: Bluejays, cornetts and crapshooters (opens the original)
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We’re rebuilding theartsdesk to secure it as a bastion of real culture writing in the face of algorithmic recommendations and AI slop. Your participation is absolutely vital to this - subscribe today and be part of this movement. Frank Loesser: Guys and Dolls Sierra Boggess, Nathaniel Hackmann, Louise Dearman, David Seadon-Young et al, Sinfonia of London/John Wilson (Chandos) Frank Loesser’s Guys and Dolls is one of the truly great Broadway musicals. Conductor John Wilson suggests that this 1950
Classical CDs: Pigeons, pennies and Piaf (opens the original)
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We’re rebuilding theartsdesk to secure it as a bastion of real culture writing in the face of algorithmic recommendations and AI slop. Your participation is absolutely vital to this - subscribe today and be part of this movement. CPE Bach: Cello Concertos Elinor Frey (cello), Accademia de’ Dissonanti (Channel Classics/Outhere Music) Canadian/American cellist/gambist and scholar Elinor Frey has made several important albums, shining a light on fascinating and little-known repertoire. Her Early It
Classical CDs: Games, gap years and galliards (opens the original)
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We’re rebuilding theartsdesk to secure it as a bastion of real culture writing in the face of algorithmic recommendations and AI slop. Your participation is absolutely vital to this - subscribe today and be part of this movement. The Art of David Munrow (Warner Classics) An online search tells me that the most popular gap year activity (for those who can afford it) is backpacking, the most popular destinations being Australia, New Zealand and Thailand. Not for the 18-year-old David Munrow, who d
Classical CDs: Dogs, snare drums and long crescendos (opens the original)
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We’re rebuilding theartsdesk to secure it as a bastion of real culture writing in the face of algorithmic recommendations and AI slop. Your participation is absolutely vital to this - subscribe today and be part of this movement. Saxophobia: Celebrating the Sax Craze of the 1920s Chad Smith (alto and C-melody saxophones), Sinfonia of London/John Wilson (Chandos) Saxophobia is a tribute to Rudy Wiedoeft (1893-1940). In the mid-1920s, the saxophonist was a massively successful in the US. He had fi
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