For more than 20 years, Adam Gorb has led the composition course at the Royal Northern College of Music in...
Bach’s Musical Offering challenges creativity, even with deliberately unfinished inversion and riddle canons. Bach also relies on the musicians’ imagination...
Often misunderstood, often admired: Beethoven’s Opus 133 immediately gives us “the feeling of the extraordinary and the utmost seriousness, the...
There was nothing ordinary about Jutta Hipp, from the fact that she was the only white European woman signed to...
The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that social distancing rules are deadly for jazz. This music thrives on communication among...
Piano music offers an inexhaustible treasure trove of expressive possibilities that have developed over the centuries. Two recent recordings by...
As a child, Federico Albanese went to La Scala in Milan every Sunday, played bass in a punk band as...
This album has a special aura about it. It is one of the last studio recordings made in the USA...
Erik Satie (1866–1925) was something like the eccentric uncle of the French music scene—the one who, at family gatherings, doesn’t...
Jean-Benoît “JB” Dunckel is one half of the French pop duo Air. Now, the co-creator of the legendary turn-of-the-millennium album...