"Auch Mono Abspielbar" - A Musical Diary

Over the past months I have worked through a full Beethoven symphony cycle at a leisurely pace. It started when at the end of October we spe...

The recording that has spooked around in my head a lot of the time the past few weeks is a 1977 recording of Brahms' Second . It is on...

I'm crawling back into the blogging routine after an unusually long break. It just happened. I 'fell out of music' and my spare ...

It's become almost a tradition now to go out and buy a pile of new pop cds to keep us company on the long drive to our holiday dest...

This is another major Adams work, dating from the late 1990s, that up to now escaped my attention. I guess that buying the 10 CD Nonesuch ...

Whilst googling around John Adams I came across this: Michael Gordon 's orchestral piece Rewriting Beethoven's Seventh (Adams, as c...

This is John Adams' 'other' violin concerto. I wasn't even aware that he had written one until I figured out that behind t...