The Gloaming

When you put together three brilliant Tenor voices with natural Irish charm, singing spinetingling Classical, Folk, Irish, Gaelic and Pop favourites in stacked threepart harmonies, then mix them up with quick witted banter, you have The Celtic Tenors. The charismatic, globetrotting trio are the most successful classical crossover artists ever to have come out of Ireland. They just sing songs they love, and they most certainly don't take themselves too seriously. It's all about the music, the harmonies and the fun. Three unique solo voices, but when called upon one tenor sound The Celtic Tenors will also perform The Irish Songbook on their Australian tour with such classics as Finnegan's Wake, In The Gloaming, Song For Ireland, Danny Boy, The Dutchman, Caledonia, You Raise Me Up and many more favourites. With a polished international reputation and over a million album sales worldwide, The Celtic Tenors offer something truly unique. The skill, range and ability of worldclass tenors combined with the personality and fun of genuine Irish performers.

Leading on from recent years’ ‘Departed Glories’ and ‘Petrified Forest’, the 66 minute long and 17-track wide suite of ‘The Senja Recordings’ arguably amounts to the most significant Biosphere outing of this decade. Taking its title from Norway’s 2nd largest island, where it was conceived, the album features outdoor sounds and improvisations made during Jenssen’s stays between 2015-2018 and finds the artist more porous than ever to distorted, granular textures along with his trademark palette of elemental electronics. It’s essentially the artist getting closer than ever to his surroundings and cutting down the space between there and your ears…

The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review. This list represents books reviewed since Dec. 6, 2015, when we published our previous Notables list.