A Young Pianist Learns Liszt From Listening
For his new album, Benjamin Grosvenor delved into historical recordings of the daunting Sonata in B minor.
“This is music that’s probably not supposed to be played cleanly,” Benjamin Grosvenor said of Liszt’s Piano Sonata in B minor, the centerpiece of his new album.Credit.Kalpesh Lathigra for The New York Times
By David Allen
Published Feb. 15, 2021Updated Feb. 22, 2021
How do the great musicians prepare to play the great works? Each has his or her own methods, and tends to keep the strategy quiet, a secret key to success.
One thing that distinguishes the subtle Benjamin Grosvenor, 28, from the rest of the pack of young star pianists is his extensive knowledge of historical recordings. This listening has paid off in a spellbinding Liszt recording out on Decca on Friday, crowned with a typically thoughtful account of the treacherous Sonata in B minor.
Priyanka Chopra Jonasâs Week: Fireside Chats and âBridgertonâ Episodes
In London, the Indian actress and producer promotes her new movie, âThe White Tiger,â while working out to Hindi rap, screening Oscar contenders and wiping away tears on âHot Ones.â
While others were perfecting their sourdough starters last spring, Priyanka Chopra Jonas decided to write her first book.Credit.Kalpesh Lathigra for The New York Times
Feb. 2, 2021
Priyanka Chopra Jonas isnât the kind to let a minute of her life slip away, even when life is on lockdown.
While others were perfecting their sourdough starters last spring, Chopra Jonas decided to write her first book â and finished it. As quarantine fatigue curtailed our enthusiasm for crafting and Kondo-izing, she was in London shooting the romantic drama âText for Youâ alongside Sam Heughan and Celine Dion.
Adrian Spinelli January 28, 2021Updated: January 29, 2021, 7:41 am
British singer and songwriter Arlo Parks at the Japanese Garden at Hammersmith Park in London. Parks makes music that captures modern-day misery in a way that feels improbably heartening. Photo: Kalpesh Lathigra, New York Times
The Chronicle’s guide to notable new music.
NEW ALBUMS
Arlo Parks, “Collapsed in Sunbeams” (Transgressive)
The West London singer-songwriter is a one-of-a-kind emerging talent with a distinct ability to earnestly capture the prevalent emotions of a generation. Parks is a poet at heart, and her songs all begin as poems before unfurling into beautiful songs. She captures young people’s often awkward and increasingly depressive states with universally impactful lyrics like “It’s so cruel what the mind can do for no reason” (on “Black Dog”), and “Some of these folks wanna make you cry/ But you gotta trust how you feel inside” (on “Green Eyes”). Even with
Arlo Parks Wants Her Songs to âFeel Like Surround Sound Cinemaâ
The 20-year-old British singer and songwriter makes music that captures modern-day misery in a way that feels improbably heartening. Her debut album is due this month.
Arlo Parks makes music in blasts of inspiration. âIf itâs not like a lightning bolt striking then maybe itâs not meant to be,â she said.Credit.Kalpesh Lathigra for The New York Times
By David Peisner
Published Jan. 20, 2021Updated Jan. 28, 2021
The first day Arlo Parks showed up at a London flat to work on music with the producer Luca Buccellati in 2018, she was only 17 years old. She was barely even Arlo Parks yet: The singer-songwriter had only recently plucked that name from the ether, inspired by the pseudonyms of two artists she deeply admired, King Krule and Frank Ocean, and intent on finding something a bit shorter than her birth name, Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho (or âIsaâ to her friends).
New novel from Normal People author Sally Rooney to be published in September
Beautiful World, Where Are You follows two best friends as they navigate love, friendship and sex heading into their thirties. By Adam Daly Tuesday 12 Jan 2021, 5:18 PM Jan 12th 2021, 5:18 PM 16,942 Views 12 Comments
Image: Kalpesh Lathigra
Image: Kalpesh Lathigra
THE THIRD NOVEL by Sally Rooney, and her first since the widely acclaimed Normal People, will be published on 7 September.
Beautiful World, Where Are You follows best friends Alice and Eileen as they near their thirties, both in different places and on very different trajectories.
Similar to Normal People, the pair exchange emails about art, friendship, the world around them and “the complicated love affairs unfolding in their own lives”.