Meeting artists – from pages to podcasts
There are two ways of writing about classical music, particularly music on record. One is to focus on repertoire, without which of course bows would lie idle, keys unpressed and voices silent. The other is to explore it via the musicians who perform it. Because however much artists might claim that they’re merely servants of the composer, when you put on a recording of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, you’re not just listening to Bach, you’re listening to, say, Hilary Hahn’s Bach – or Giuliano Carmignola’s, or the Bach of Rachel Podger, Alina Ibragimova, Itzhak Perlman, Yehudi Menuhin or whoever it might be. They each interpret the music in their own unique way. Otherwise, you’d never need a second recording of any piece of music, and our reviews…
