Soft Machine Tales Of Taliesin Anthology of the EMI years
Music News
The music had moved away from the complex Blues/Classical/folk or the band's origins in the Canterbury scene – all part of the Wilde Flowers – and was now full on jazz fusion. But, and it is a big but for fans of the original band, if you leave aside …

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Katherine Jenkins At The Glastonbury Extravaganza
Glastonbury People
By stonesthrow | Monday, August 08, 2011, 20:43 Although the weather had taken a rather alarming turn for the worse on Sunday, it failed to dampen the spirits of those who had turned out to see Katherine Jenkins perform the classical finale of the 2011 …

Jazz breaking news: Necks Confirm New Studio Album Release
Jazzwise magazine
The Australian piano trio – which has a sizeable underground following among jazz, improv and classical music fans drawn to their original sounding improvising ethic – will tour again in the UK in November to support the release with dates at the …

Busker Daniel, 12, sets up in Southend High Street
Essex Echo
“I love all the classical composers, particularly Tchaikovsky, Bach and Mozart.” Daniel's family have been using a van to bring him and his piano to Southend. His family in the UK even found a trolley to help them get the piano in the High Street to …

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Keith Jarrett Trio, Royal Festival Hall, London
Financial Times
Textural detail can get lost – Jarrett's piano was slightly muffled at this gig and his dynamic range blurred at the edges – but the trio maintain the intensity of performance by enforcing codes of conduct that are the norm for classical audiences and …

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Jazz award for Hertford-born musician Chris
Hertfordshire Mercury
He has previously appeared in the Hertford Music Festival, was involved with various classical and jazz music ensembles while at school and studied classical and jazz piano with Harold Chaplin, who is the chairman of the Hertford Music Club. …

Festival's pop twist
Ripley Today
They ranged from rock and roll to classical and from musicals to oratorios,” said church steward, David Hopkinson. “Also featured were nursery rhymes, opera, barbershop singing, hymns, country and western, big bands and movie music. …

Greyfriars Kirk: Serenely stealing the EIF's thunder
Edinburgh Festivals
In a delicious twist of irony, though, former festival boss Sir Brian McMaster and his old EIF sidekick James Waters have stepped in with an opportunistic Fringe coup that will keep Greyfriars in the classical vanguard this year, and may even outclass, …

Blind Crowborough piano-tuner named among best musical brains
This Is Sussex
Contestants are tested on their knowledge of classical music, pop and film soundtrack trivia. He added: "It's not like The Weakest Link – they're not into making people look stupid – but if they ask 'who wrote the 1812 Overture? …

Christian Blackshaw, Wigmore Hall, London
Financial Times
Classical propriety tussled with romantic excess in this carefully considered programme that combined Schubert's Piano Sonata in C minor, D958 and Schumann's Fantasy in C, Op 17 with Mozart's composite Piano Sonata in F K533/494. …