Cellist and vocalist Selaocoe’s new album is easy to enjoy with its seamless mix of throat singing, Bach, a southern African hymn and elements of jazz Here’s another joyously unclassifiable recording ...
A triumphant album influenced by sex, drugs, cups of tea, and football. As a song, ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’ intrigues on many levels. The low ebbing violin sets a pensive mood at the outset. Then those ...
The music of Alfred Schnittke had a close relationship with the Orthodox traditions of Russia, and this sequence of 12 penitential psalms was composed for the millennium of the Christianisation of the ...