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Ubiquitous pre-concert routines feature furtive programme reading and, for the truly organised, ordering interval refreshments. Activities do not usually include brushing one’s teeth and changing into

Michael Fjeldsøe, Katarina Smitt Engberg, Bjarke Moe Aarhus University Press 978-87-7597-332-3 794pp (hb) £39 Academic studies of composers notoriously combine convoluted, abstract thinking with an in

Le Concert des Nations; La Capella Nacional de Catalunya/Jordi Savall Alia Vox AVSA9965 66:27 mins Jordi Savall’s recording of Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor is not just another attempt to tidy up an

For many years the musician and ecologist Bernie Krause has lived in the Sonoma Valley in California, a base from which he travelled the globe to record natural soundscapes, creating the largest priva

Lidy Blijdorp; Tobias Borsboom Channel Classics CCS47726 65:29 mins Using the recording genre creatively is an art in itself. What can it offer that perhaps a live concert cannot? I think it allows mo

Music is a serious business. Whether it’s love, death, heartbreak, loneliness, power, conflict, destruction, sin, faith, hope, despair… you name it, every weighty subject and state of mind has been ta