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cADULT., TUSSLE Perhaps the truest line in the verbose manifesto that accompanies Adult.s fourth album, Why Bother? (Thrill Jockey), is the relatively concise We lack a casualness. With the urgent restlessness and monomaniacal focus of speed freaks, husband-and-wife duo Adam Lee Miller and Nicola Kuperus cut away the bullshit of new-wave revivalism to produce graceful, darkwavey interludes and ferocious Suicide-esque eruptions that feel downright vital. Even their most singsongy moments have a sort of surreal quality, disorienting and reorienting, as though they came about through some sort of automatic-writing session. Monica Kendrick
Theres never been any doubt that Tussle were following the lead of minimalist funk bands like Liquid Liquid and ESG. But even by their own previous standards they sound surprisingly stripped-down on last years superb Telescope Mind (Smalltown Supersound): nothing but lean percussion, heavy bass, and taut keyboards. The
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JEREMY NICHOLAS
Towards the end of the 19th century, the eminent Austrian pianist and pedagogue Ernst Pauer () made a list of the twelve pianists who, in his opinion, represented the technical execution of the highest perfection between the years and Of the twelve, nine were men: Liszt, Henselt, Hallé, Tausig, Thalberg, Dreyschock, Willmers (a now completely forgotten Danish pianist and composer), Anton Rubinstein and Bendel. Just three were women: Arabella Goddard, Wilhelmine Clauss-Szavardy and Clara Schumann.
dock have always outnumbered women on the concert platform – except, paradoxically, when the concept of a ‘professional pianist’ was in its infancy. Until the middle of the 18th century, there were very few professional pianists of either sex but of those who embarked on such a career, a surprising number were women. Playing the piano for domestic pleasure was a valued accomplishment for a woman, especiall
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Bragg Women Music Opportunities Fund
Roderick Williams is one of the most sought after baritones of his generation. He performs a wide repertoire from baroque to contemporary music, in the opera house, on the concert platform and is in demand as a recitalist worldwide.
He enjoys relationships with all the major UK opera houses and has sung opera world premieres by David Sawer, Sally Beamish, Michael van der Aa, Robert Saxton and Alexander Knaifel. Recent and future engagements include The Traveller / Death in Venice for Welsh National Opera, the title role in Eugene Onegin and Yeletsky / Pique Dame for Garsington, Papageno for Covent Garden, Sharpless / Madame Butterfly for ENO and van de Aa’s Upload with Cologne Opera, Bregenz Festival and the Dutch National Opera.
Roderick sings regularly with all the BBC orchestras and all the major UK orchestras, as well as the Berlin, London and New York Philharmonic Orchestras, Deutsches Symphonie-Orches