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In early 2011 The UK’s Daily Telegraph newspaper claimed, “The Classical Guitar has a new hero”. That man is the 29 year-old Miloš Karadaglić from Montenegro. “I want to wake this instrument from hibernation”, he says. With his second recording for Deutsche Grammophon, he is well on his way to doing just that.
Heartstrings tells the story of how Miloš got to this point in his ...
Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford, the men behind Squeeze, have been called everything from the new Lennon and McCartney to the godfathers of Britpop. Now, 35 years after their first record, this documentary reappraises the songwriting genius of Difford and Tilbrook and shows why Squeeze hold a special place in British pop music.
Difford and Tilbrook, two working class kids from south east London, formed Squeeze ...
With the release of So in 1986, Peter Gabriel achieved a level of success that had thus far eluded him. Gabriel famously started out leading Genesis, but his four albums of solo work had made him the definition of a cult artist, with flashes that broke through such as Solsbury Hill and Games Without Frontiers. His fifth album, the first not to be titled Peter ...
At the heart of the film is the back-story to David Garrett’s success – the hard work involved in the journey from being a child prodigy to a global selling artist who bridges the worlds of pop, rock and classical music. The film follows David as he embarks on his first classical recording at Abbey Road (with Beethoven’s Violin Concerto), and sees him perform classical ...
Moving back to his classical roots David Garrett’s 2011 album Legacy sees him performing Beethoven’s violin concerto as well as various Kreisler pieces including Kreisler’s variation on the sublime Theme of Paganini by the great Rachmaninov.
All tracks were recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the legendary Abbey Road, and led at the baton by Ion Marin. Marin believes Garrett is somehow fused with his ...