![]() Read Riley’s review of John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band - The Ultimate Collectionand Johannes Brahms: Piano Concertos. “This recording begs new questions: how much of the heavy, molten Brahms we’re accustomed to came from the industrial scale of instruments he never wrote for? When we encounter this new Brahms, this more original and detail-oriented line writing provides new appreciation for the originality of his voice and a more relaxed conversation with history. “ In “Born-Again Brahms,” Riley takes on Hungarian-British pianist Andras Schiff’s recording of Brahms concertos on period-appropriate instruments. ![]() This makes it the most unconventional of rock classics: not swift, digestible and expedient pop, but burdened, dense, difficult, and hard to fathom even fifty years on…” “The songs’ irreducible simplicity masked oceans of complicated feelings expressed with utmost economy, impossible to grasp in a single hearing. In “White-Knuckling It: John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band - The Ultimate Collection,” Riley reviews the 50th anniversary reissue of Lennon’s debut solo album. In his commanding new book, the eminent NPR critic Tim Riley takes us on the remarkable journey that brought a Liverpool art student from a disastrous childhood. ![]() ![]() ![]() Journalism Associate Professor Tim Riley has two reviews out in Copper Magazine. ![]()
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