Film review – Title: Parasite / Director: Bong Joon-Ho / Released: 2019There seems to be something fundamentally odd with the decisions of major...

Mariss Jansons, a sculptor of soundsI can't, and I don’t wish to write a standard obituary for Mariss Jansons. His music has affected me...

Review - Beethoven, Symphony 5 & 6, Marek Janowski/WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne / PentatoneThe High Arts Review Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆This new coupling...

Review - Beethoven Symphony 1 & 5, Fischer, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Channel ClassicsThe High Arts Review Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆This is an excellent...

Music review - Beethoven, Symphony 9, Bernard Haitink / Chor & Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Sally Matthews, soprano / Gerhild Romberger, alto /...

Film review - Title: Joker / Director: Todd Phillips / Released: 2019“When Dalí and Buñuel made “L’Âge d’Or” (1930), they wanted to start a riot, and...

Music Review Destination Rachmaninov - Arrival (Piano Concerto 1 & 3) - Daniil Trifonov / The Philadelphia Orchestra / Yanick Nézet-Séguin / Deutsche GrammophonThe...

Music review - Beethoven, Complete Symphonies, Andris Nelsons, Wiener Philharmoniker, Deutsche GrammophonThe High Arts Review Rating: ★  ★  ★  ☆...

There were times that I found the changes of tempo distracting, as in the Second Concerto which needed more energy and less thinking...

Don't get me wrong, Tetzlaff is magnificent here, but the whole release is let down at places by Ticciati's understated orchestral contribution.

Believe the hype and the accolades this release has received so far: this performance of the last three Beethoven sonatas is one for the ages.

Music Review: Alchemy / Jupiter String Quartet / Bernadette Harvey (piano) / MarquisThis new release by Marquis features chamber works by three distinguished contemporary composers...

Review – Bruckner Symphony 9 with completed finale (Schaller completion 2018) / Philharmonie Festiva, Gerd Schaller (conductor) / Hänssler ClassicGerd Schaller has recorded completions of...

Review: Khatia Buniatishvili, Schubert Sonata D960 & Impromptus D899 / Sony ClassicalIf you like the art of piano interpretation this album is for you. As...

As a dramatic comedy the film achieves its goal. This surely is Lanthimos’s most mature work to date.

Film Review. Title: Green Book / Director: Peter Farrelly / Released: 2018looking at the nominations for the Best Picture Oscar one cannot ignore...

Film Review Title: BlacKkKlansman / Director: Spike Lee / Released: 2018There are plenty of false beginning as there are plenty of false...

Furtwangler, Jochum and Knappertsbusch knew how to mould these phrases and how to adjust tempo relations, making their performances unique. Jansons follows suit.

Felix Mendelssohn, Piano Concertos Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano) Die Kölner Akademie Michael Alexander Willens (conductor)BIS RecordsThese are fleet performances of Mendelssohn’s super-exciting, exuberant piano concertos....

Mahler, Symphony 2 "Resurrection" Minnesota Orchestra Osmo Vänskä (conductor)Sasha CookeRuby HughesMinnesota ChoraleBIS RecordsWhen you hear the lower strings opening the symphony so fiercely and...