Articles
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Naim to the rescue!
|I recently received a frantic message from a friend with whom I sing in Salisbury Cathedral. Susie Lamb is the Director of Music of the Salisbury Cathedral School. The message contained images of an amplifier ...read more -
Stylus Show 2017
|From the Chester Group press release: The UK’s first show devoted to all things Vinyl, Stylus returns for a second year and moves to a new venue: the MacDonald Hotel & Spa in Manchester. Taking ...read more -
Meet Your Maker – Bob Stuart of MQA and Morten Lindberg of 2L
|Way back in May this year, the blossoming MQA format took a step closer to mainstream acceptance as Warner Music Group and MQA entered a long-term licensing agreement. As the ink on this deal was ...read more -
The shock of the old
|If you love music and the sound it makes, you need to play that music on good equipment. This becomes all the more important as you explore the wider repertoire of classical and jazz, with ...read more -
Classical is more than a hold button!
|Back in the day (whenever that was), lots of people were regularly exposed to some form of orchestral music. The first recording artist ‘stars’ were often operatic singers like Caruso, and the first few decades ...read more -
True Classics by the Colorado Symphony recorded by Neumann and Sennheiser - The Digital Synergy
|This pair of discs covering some of the best known works from the classical (or more strictly the Romantic) repertoire represents a new threshold in digital recording. Other digital multi-microphone recordings have been made successfully, ...read more -
Portrait of a musician: Enrique Mazzola, conductor
|Editor’s Note: Branko Bozic of Audiofreaks has rarely been so animated and inspired as he is by conductor Enrique Mazzola. Bozic first contacted us about writing a feature on Mazzola about a year ago. On ...read more -
New Year's Resolutions
|New Year is the time of making resolutions that you are destined to break by mid January. The longest I managed to stick to my resolutions was back in my college years, when I vowed ...read more -
Exposing the ‘Good for Classical’ myth
|We all do it. We tend to pigeonhole systems (especially transducers like headphones and loudspeakers) as having specific characteristics that ally themselves to a particular genre. We often hear of loudspeakers being ‘good for rock’ ...read more -
In praise of challenging music
|As a gaijin living in England, my experience of sushi has traditionally been very ‘western’: recognisable bits of fish (tuna, salmon) or seafood (crab, prawn, maybe octopus) with rice, seaweed, and wasabi. OK, so there ...read more -
Rebooting classical music
|You probably missed it, but Western Civilisation came to an abrupt end last week. Its end was not due to instability in the worldwide financial market, the wanton destruction of archeologically important antiquities in Palmyra, ...read more -
Tidal - the future of audiophile streaming?
|In one of the most public displays of the music business setting itself straight, Tidal’s recent announcement was part showbiz glitz, part hard-nosed business. Last month, Aspiro, parent company of high-resolution streaming service Tidal (and ...read more -
Classic Albums: Beethoven's 5th and 7th Symphony, Vienna Philharmonia, Carlos Kleiber, cond
|Although this Classic Albums series has its gaze primarily fixed on rock, jazz, and folk music, there are some extraordinarily powerful classic albums from the Classical canon that deserve greater attention. However, Carlos Kleiber’s legendary ...read more -
Bowers & Wilkins big week (part 1)
|Bowers & Wilkins had a busy week. First there was the launch of the in-car audio, navigation, and comms system of the new Volvo XC90. This was swiftly followed by the announcement of the complete ...read more -
Vangelis Interview
|Although most now associate the name with the Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner soundtracks and the score for Carl Sagan’s epic Cosmos TV series, Vangelis’ career as a composer, musician and producer spans more ...read more