Some fascinating stuff in this week's action-packed Classical CD column: theartsdesk.com/classical-mu... @bernardhughes.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social @bostonsymphony.bsky.social @classicalcritic.bsky.social #shostakovich #meredithmonk #benfolds #vicentelusitano #classicalcds

★★★★ #BBCProms #AnoushkaShankar @anoushkashankar.bsky.social - Shankar's starry presence brings focus to this orchestral version of #Chapters, the culmination of a process which somehow worked, says @seb-scotney.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/new-music/bb...

It's Saturday. It's time for Classical CD reviews! All good, as usual: www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu... @bernardhughes.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social‬ #bartok #ades #mozart #stravinsky

Chuffed, very, to have my first ever Downbeat magazine byline downbeat.com/news/detail/...

Big heap of reviews here. All good, as usual: theartsdesk.com/classical-mu... @bernardhughes.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social #michelberoff #arthurbliss #haydn #mozart #debussy @detroitsymphony.bsky.social #classical @warnerclassics.bsky.social

Wir haben mit Hannes Möller (Projektleitung Deutscher Jazzpreis) und Johanna Schneider (Jazzmusikerin & Deutsche Jazzunion) auf der jazzahead! 2025 über die Bedeutung, Entwicklung und Zukunft des Deutschen Jazzpreises gesprochen. www.jazz-fun.de/interview-mi...

What a beautiful album by bassist Anneleen Boehme. I had it on repeat today music.apple.com/us/album/eun...

Big box sets! Bassoons! Loads of fabulous stuff in this week's sizzling pile of CD reviews. Read on: theartsdesk.com/classical-mu... @seb-scotney.bsky.social @londonsymphony.bsky.social #bassoons #bruckner #purcell

The latest #ClassicalCDs from @grahamrickson.bsky.social @bernardhughes.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social Jelly Babies, porridge & kazoos, German art songs, French piano concertos and entertaining contemporary music www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

Lots to enjoy here: theartsdesk.com/classical-mu... @bernardhughes.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social #classicalmusic #brahms #ravel @bostonsymphony.bsky.social #shostakovich

Your fortnightly slab of carefully curated classical content. All good, as usual: theartsdesk.com/classical-mu... @bernardhughes.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social @shekukm.bsky.social @royalphilorchestra.bsky.social

★★★★ A deep, subtle and constantly engaging album: Newfoundland Tristesse by Ronny Graupe's Szelest 'is all about disturbance and disruption' writes Sebastian Scotney theartsdesk.com/new-music/al...

Sound on for a short sampler of Hear My Heart Sing, in a new recording out later this week by the brilliant Epiphoni Consort. Hear My Heart Sing is a choral showpiece celebrating the joy of singing together through the biology and imagery of the heart

The only biweekly online classical CD column you need. All good stuff, as usual: theartsdesk.com/classical-mu... @lporchestra.bsky.social @bernardhughes.bsky.social @thechoircefc.bsky.social #vivianmaier #filmphotography #elgar #classicalmusic

Loved interviewing Anne Sebba about her astonishing new book: inews.co.uk/culture/book...

Happy birthday, PB! #Boulez100

Fish and 'bones in this week's enticing classical selection. Read on: www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu... @nmcrecordings.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social

#CLASSICALCDs from @grahamrickson.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social - Shipping lines, sabre dances and sea lice in neglected piano concertos, Italian art songs and new music for trombones theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

A FORM OF EXILE #EdwardSaid and Late Style #CityofLondonSinfonia @southbankcentre.bsky.social - Superlative actors and musicians in an over-ambitious event running to three hours - @davidnice.bsky.social on a baggy ferment of ideas and sounds theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

It's Saturday! Time for CLASSICAL CD REVIEWS. Loads of great stuff this week, especially the Rozsa: theartsdesk.com/classical-mu... @bernardhughes.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social @kirstymatheson.bsky.social @firsthandrecords.bsky.social @londonsymphony.bsky.social

#BONHOEFFER - This film about the pastor accused of conspiring in the Hitler assassination plot raises more questions than it answers - @seb-scotney.bsky.social on a flawed biopic of a saintly man of courage theartsdesk.com/film/bonhoef...

#CLASSICALCDs from @grahamrickson.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social @bernardhughes.bsky.social - Funeral marches, festivals & film noir, as well as choral music, solo piano recitals & the best violin concerto you've never heard theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

★★★★ #HelenCharlston #SholtoKynoch #TempleChurch - Coups de théâtre in a well-constructed programme, with fine singing, and powerful stage presence - review @seb-scotney.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

#Artemis - #ARBORESQUE - A safe album from a band with a necessary message - but is there something, a spark maybe, missing here? asks @seb-scotney.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/new-music/al...

NEW LINK for this week's Classical CDs review theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

HUGE box sets in this week's mammoth selection. Read on, folks: theartsdesk.com/classical-cd... @bernardhughes.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social

Back after a week's sabbatical@ @theartsdesk.bsky.social Classical CDs column, as eclectic as ever: theartsdesk.com/classical-mu... @bernardhughes.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social @delphianrecords.com

Congrats corto.alto - fabulous aet and incredible audience response at the Sparks and Visions Fest in Regensburg!

I confess. I find writing about @ludovicoeinaudioff.bsky.social incredibly hard. Here goes … www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/al...

★★★★ Long summer holidays remembered in #LudovicoEinaudi’s THE SUMMER PORTRAITS - #Einaudi has another hit on his hands, says @seb-scotney.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/new-music/al...

Xhosa Cole’s Young Lions live from rhe Münster jazz fest on WDR www1.wdr.de/mediathek/au...

‘This concert was an effusion of pure joy’ German National Orchestra #WayneMarshall #CadoganHall - Teenagers on tour bring effusive music-making and sheer youthful exuberance, says @seb-scotney.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

★★★★ THE SECOND ACT - French A-listers puncture their profession in a hall of mirrors in #QuentinDupieux’s absurdist meta comedy about stardom - review @seb-scotney.bsky.social #Mubi theartsdesk.com/film/second-...

It's been a bumper week, including three box sets. All your classical CD needs in a handy column: www.theartsdesk.com/classical-cd... @bernardhughes.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social

NEW LINK theartsdesk.com/classical-mu... - for Classical CDs from @grahamrickson.bsky.social @bernardhughes.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social

At last, before the iron tongue of midnight proclaims a dubious 2025, my and my colleagues' classical music round-up for @theartsdesk.bsky.social completes the list. It's a big one. Among the featured, @philharmonialondon.bsky.social, @lporchestra.bsky.social, @royalphilorchestra.bsky.social...

2024's best classical recordings, in a handy list: theartsdesk.com/classical-mu... @bernardhughes.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social

Here’s the classical CDs pick of the year from @theartsdesk.bsky.social team. Bravo for a brilliant year of reviewing by @seb-scotney.bsky.social and especially @grahamrickson.bsky.social, whose writing is always a joy to read

Fascinating choices by @grahamrickson.bsky.social, @bernardhughes.bsky.social and @seb-scotney.bsky.social for @theartsdesk.bsky.social. Unfamiliar with most of them, though I did love the Nielsen 'Espansiva' transcription. Best of Classical music 'live' 2024 follows in a few days.

I have listened to this *so much* this last month: Kyrklåt from Songs of Christmas II by the Norwegian Soloists' Choir. It's a stunning piece of work: apart from anything the musical pacing is absolutely faultless

As usual, there were less outstanding opera productions than concerts (going to be a bigger one), but plenty of standout performances and two rich comedies in Wexford and Dublin. A survey from self and colleagues for @theartsdesk.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/opera/best-2...

A one month streaming subscription for Xmas video bingeing? I’ve gone for SFJAZZCenter. Very pleased with their on demand selection :) www.sfjazz.org/joingive/sfj... #jazzsky

Final classical roundup of the year, full of good stuff as usual: www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu... thanks to @bernardhughes.bsky.social and @seb-scotney.bsky.social as usual

This was Guy Barker’s 9th Big Band Christmas at @royalalberthall.bsky.social / with @palomafaith.music-social.com.ap.brid.gy . Review here : ukjazznews.com/guy-barkers-... Contains full band and set lists and some trumpet geekery

Albums of the Year 2024: Kenny Barron - Beyond This Place Sebastian Scotney champions the bittersweet culmination of a great pianist / producer relationship, bemoans the loss of some greats, and salutes Zara MacFarlane, Norma Winstone and Marius Neset.

Here's a favourite, off-the-beaten-track Christmas thing I'd like to share. I discovered this album by the Norwegian Soloists' Choir when it came out last year. Lots to love throughout, but this is one of the most beautiful and understated tracks. Makes me well up every time

Our selection of TOP CHRISTMAS MUSIC includes some crackers! Read more: theartsdesk.com/classical-mu... @bernardhughes.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social @dariusbat.bsky.social

Actually the highest rate is paid by Qobuz: 2.2 cents per stream They are also one the best in streaming audio quality. Earlier this year when _Compassion_ was released I created this Qobuz playlist of ECM deep cuts — open.qobuz.com/playlist/202...

Deep in thought… somethings brewing!