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Fri 16 Aug, 2019:
Suk: Asrael, Op 27; Pohádka (Fairy Tale), Op 16
Here is the third and final recording of Suk's masterly Asrael under the baton of the late-lamented Jiří Bĕlohlávek (his second with the Czech...
Thu 25 Jul, 2019:
Bartók: The Wooden Prince; The Miraculous Mandarin (Suite)
Finely honed orchestral playing and superbly realistic sonics grace this undeniably superior Bartók offering from Helsinki. Composed between 1914 and...
Mon 24 Jun, 2019:
Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op 30; Ein Heldenleben, Op 40
Music-making of beguiling sheen and giddy coordination can be found on this blockbuster of a Strauss coupling from Oslo. And if Vasily Petrenko's...
Tue 11 Jun, 2019:
Chausson: Poème de l'amour et de la mer, Op 19; Symphony in B flat major, Op 20
Composed between 1882 and 1892 and bearing a dedication to Henri Duparc, Ernest Chausson's glorious orchestral song-cycle, Poème de l'amour et de la...
Sun 21 Apr, 2019:
Berlioz: L'enfance du Christ
The sesquicentennial commemorations of Berlioz's death in 1869 get under way with his 'sacred trilogy' L'enfance du Christ in a recording that...
Thu 11 Apr, 2019:
Buxtehude: Membra Jesu nostri
Immediately striking here in Buxtehude's slow-moving Passion meditation is the quiet, articulate intensity and aching sense of intimacy on display....
Mon 25 Mar, 2019:
Elgar: The Wand of Youth – Suites Nos 1 & 2, Opp 1a & 1b; Nursery Suite; Salut d'amour, Op 12; Chanson de nuit, Op 15 No 1
This latest offering in Sir Mark Elder's Elgar series with the Hallé strikes me as an unbridled success. Subtitled 'Music to a child's play' and...
Thu 14 Mar, 2019:
Rachmaninov: Symphony No 2 in E minor, Op 27; The Isle of the Dead, Op 29
Andrew Gourlay secures refreshingly lithe and conspicuously articulate accounts of both these Rachmaninov masterworks on this first in-house release...
Sibelius: Symphony No 1 in E minor, Op 39; En Saga, Op 9
The start of a Sibelius series from the Gothenburg Symphony under its new 33-year-old chief conductor, Santtu-Matias Rouvali – and a most auspicious...
Mon 18 Feb, 2019:
Lutosławski: Symphonies – No 1 (1947); No 4 (1992); Jeux vénitiens (1961)
Written between 1941 and 1947, Witold Lutosławski's strongly communicative and impressively concise First Symphony makes quite a splash in this...
Thu 07 Feb, 2019:
Lyatoshynsky: Symphony No 3 (Peace Shall Defeat War); Grazhyna
With a fiercely committed Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in tow, Kirill Karabits makes a powerful claim for the Third Symphony (of five) by his fellow...
Schumann: Papillons, Op 2; Kinderszenen, Op 15; Brahms: 3 Intermezzi, Op 117; 6 Klavierstücke, Op 118
Mentored by the great Denis Matthews (the centenary of whose birth falls this year), Sarah Beth Briggs displays her customary composure, intelligence,...
Thu 31 Jan, 2019:
Sullivan: The Light of the World
While there is no disguising the Victorian archness of Sullivan's imposing oratorio The Light of the World, this first account on disc of Robin...
Clarke: Viola Sonata; Bridge: Cello Sonata; Scherzo; Serenade; Spring Song; Vaughan Williams: Six Studies in English Folk Song
Runner-up to Ernest Bloch's Suite for viola and piano in a prestigious competition organised by the American patron Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, the...
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