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Leya, the New York duo of violinist and vocalist Adam Markiewicz and harpist Marilu Donovan, strike a curious balance between medieval folk, classical music, and avant-garde pop.
An exceptional account of Bach’s Mass in B minor, traditional and unusual string quartets, and Thomas Adès suites are among the highlights.
Perfectionism - and a noisy mind - are conditions that seem to affect a lot of musicians, particularly violinists. So I'm not ...
But Johann Christian does have an essential lesson to impart to the young Mozart: that all of human life is a mystery. And ...
French violinist Esther Abrami puts female composers in focus on her new album "Women", paying tribute to their ...
The violin played as the Titanic ship sinks in the Hollywood film is expected to sell for £60,000 at auction. Amid the chaos of the sinking ship, a string quartet plays the hymn Nearer My God To Thee, ...
“We love their work and the artistry they put into their books. The art and music for the game had been in progress since the start of production, so we had been working on it for a while.
“The violin is no longer played,” he wrote. “It is pulled about, torn, beaten black and blue.” Kopatchinskaja doesn’t always beat music black and blue. She can reduce her sound to a ...
But the main inspiration has been a Swedish producer of Iranian descent, Ilya Salmanzadeh (Ariana Grande, Charlie XCX, Sam Smith), who Sheeran credits with suggesting “making music inspired by ...
Espionage fiction continues to captivate readers with the genre's thrilling blend of secrets, betrayals, and missions. In 2023, Publishers Weekly got literary journalist-turned-novelist Patrick ...
Jon Stock’s The Sleep Room is just what its subtitle suggests: a shocking account of a very British medical scandal.It’s also a damning portrait of a man who, in the name of psychiatric ...