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16 days ago

Víkingur Ólafsson: Opus 109 album review – pianist’s concept album opens up transcendent vistas

(Deutsche Grammophon)
Olafsson’s account of Beethoven’s Op 109 is one of the most beautiful on record, the centrepiece of a recording that links the composer to Bach and Schubert

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19 days ago

Two long-lost organ pieces by JS Bach performed for first time in 300 years

Archive director in Germany says ‘missing piece of puzzle’ now in place to verify authorship after decades of research

Two long-lost organ pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach have been performed in German…

27 days ago

38 days ago

Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith review – essays for an age of anxiety

From cultural appropriation to gender, Smith nails the politics of creativity. But on actual politics, she is less assured

Accepting a literary prize in Ohio last year, the novelist Zadie Smith descri…

40 days ago

‘All roads lead to Grace Jones’: visual artists on the music that fires them up in the studio ⊕⊕

Chris Ofili loves steel pans. Lindsey Mendick adores Self Esteem. And Ragnar Kjartansson enjoys everything from Bach to the Cure. Artists reveal the bangers that get their creative juices fizzing

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3 months ago

Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 album review – Mahan Esfahani’s reading is lucid and illuminating

(Hyperion)
The harpsichordist describes Bach’s Preludes and Fugues as a ‘challenge and a homecoming’. His thoughtful new recording has a sense of the work’s drama but is never wilful nor perverse

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