May 17, 2013
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May 17, 2013
DVDs and Blu-rays
Tom Hooper’s adaptation of the hit musical is most at home, strangely, in its comic subplot
The formula feels tired and familiar, the violence gratuitous and predictable
Sex, religion, disability and death – hardly the ingredients of your average Hollywood rom-com
May 17, 2013
Yasmine Hamdan: Ya Nass
The best parts in the Lebanese singer’s album are the most traditional
May 17, 2013
Oliver ‘Tuku’ Mtukudzi: Sarawoga
Black Sprits’ usual southern African palette holds sway
May 17, 2013
Patty Griffin: American Kid
Album is an unvarnished exercise in folk and country where sentimentality is applied judiciously
May 17, 2013
Glenn Jones: My Garden State
The instrumental album builds on John Fahey’s legacy with fluid fingerpicking, bluesy bent notes and raga-like repetition
May 17, 2013
The National: Trouble Will Find Me
Band’s sixth album brims with quietly desperate men and mourning women who have left them
May 17, 2013
Eyes of a Blue Dog: Rise
Vocals, backbeats and splashes maintain the acoustic warmth creating an atmospheric set of contrasting moods and textures
May 17, 2013
Basquiat Strings: Part Two
Each track in the string quintet’s second album is an enthralling musical narrative
May 17, 2013
James MacMillan: Magnificat, Nunc Dimittis etc
Album profiles the Scottish composer’s gift for mimicking and mulching English choral tradition
May 17, 2013
Britten: Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto
A rapturous disc that pairs the composer’s two prewar concertos
May 17, 2013
J.S. Bach: The Transcriptions of Concertos by Vivaldi and the Marcello Brothers
Disc brings together arrangements for harpsichord made by the composer from instrumental concertos by Italian contemporaries
May 10, 2013
Weber: Der Freischütz
The joys of the performance lie in the way the acoustical demands of the work have been met
May 10, 2013
Berlioz: Les nuits d’été, La mort de Cléopâtre
Robin Ticciati’s grasp of the music’s romantic bloom is one of this disc’s attractions
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