Slowhand at 70 – Live at The Royal Albert Hall[2 CD/Blu-Ray Combo]
2015 was a year of landmark events for Eric Clapton. He turned 70 in March and then in May he performed his 200th concert at London’s famous Royal Albert Hall fifty years after his first performance there with The Yardbirds. Clapton’s 7 night run at the venue was acclaimed by the critics and adored by the fans. The …
The Austrian pianist Rudolf Buchbinder was invited by the Salzburg Festival to perform a pinnacle of piano literature in its entirety, a first for the festival: Beethovens magnum opus of 32 piano sonatas, developed throughout his life gain depths for their reflection of his evolution as a man and musician through the years. With the sonatas Pathétique, Moonshine, …
Beginning in mid-1980s, Leonard Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic began re-recording the complete cycle of Sibelius symphonies. Bernsteins death in 1990 ended the planned project with Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 5 and 7 completed. Recorded live in the intimately sized Viennas Musikverein, and brilliantly filmed to allow maximum visibility of the orchestra and soloists. An inspired Bernstein conducts …
This Hammersmith Christmas concert was the culmination of the 26-date ‘Queen invite you to A Night At The Opera UK tour of 1975, and was the last show of a very eventful and exciting year for Queen. Queen performed ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ for the first time during this tour. Spirits were high within the band for this show; ‘Bohemian …
All roads have led to this. Forty-one years in the making, the R40 Live tour took a very real journey back through time. Beginning with the grand design: a state-of-the-art stage set that pivots, rolls and dives, and brings Clockwork Angels in to bombastic, colorful life before marching stridently back in time (through theatre stages, a panoply of …
Berliner Philharmoniker – New Year’s Eve Concert 2014 – Simon Rattle, Menahem Pressler [Blu-ray]
– The music world knows the outstanding artist Menahem Pressler for more than half a century – He was the heart of the famous Beaux Arts Trio; in 2008 when the trio decided to separate, this was the restart of a memorable solo carrier – In 2013, the 90-year-old grand seigneur of the piano gave his …
The Waldbühne in Berlin, one of the most appealing outdoor amphitheatres on the European continent, is the home of the Berliner Philharmoniker’s summer concerts – With over 20.000 in attendance, they are some of the most popular classical music concerts in the world – In 2015 the Berliner Philharmoniker surrounded themselves with plenty of celebrities, including not …
Years ahead of his time, composer, keyboard player, bandleader, poet, and philosopher Sun Ra coupled images of outer space with those of ancient Egypt, acoustic instruments with electronic ones, and modern American musical genres (jazz, soul, gospel, blues, swing) with the sounds of Africa and the Caribbean. He also combined his music with dance, poetry, colorful costumes and …
On the 19th of August, Placebo performed a unique one-off show for MTV Unplugged at the London Studios in the UK. Here we present the results of this incredible show.The band were encased in spectacular LED box during the performance, from where they belted out some of their most well-loved tracks such as ‘The Bitter End’ and ‘Every …
Rova Channeling Coltrane – Electric Ascension (BluRay, DVD, CD) – Bruce Ackley (s. sax), Steve Adams (a. sax), Chris Brown (electronics), Nels Cline (guitar), Hamid Drake (drums), Fred Frith (bass), Carle Kihlstedt (violin), Rob Mazurek (cornet), Ikue Mori (electronics), Larry Ochs (t. sax), Jon Raskins (b. sax), Jenny Schienman (violin) – Cleaning The Mirror (DVD) – documentary by …