Category Results for: "Orchestral"
Mon 09 Sep, 2019:
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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...
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Thu 08 Aug, 2019:
Marsalis: Violin Concerto; Fiddle Dance Suite
Is there a more intelligent, musically open-minded violinist at work today than Nicola Benedetti? This latest offering – a concerto and solo suite...
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Mon 29 Jul, 2019:
Rota: The Fellini Album
Deliciously heady and intoxicating, this delectably played compendium of Nino Rota’s scores for Federico Fellini’s era-defining films should...
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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...
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Mon 08 Jul, 2019:
Mahler: Titan
A Mahler premiere on disc – the second, five-movement, version of what became the First Symphony – is something not to ignore, especially in such...
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Thu 27 Jun, 2019:
Dove: Run to the Edge; The Ringing Isle; Hojoki (An Account of my Hut); Airport Scenes; Gaia Theory
The meat on the bone in this collection of Jonathan Dove’s orchestral music is the dramatic cantata for countertenor, Hojoki (An Account of my Hut)....
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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...
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Fri 07 Jun, 2019:
Brian: Symphonies Nos 7 and 16; The Tinker's Wedding: Overture
Alexander Walker’s survey of Havergal Brian’s symphonies with the New Russia State Symphony Orchestra is shaping up to be an invaluable series....
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Tue 04 Jun, 2019:
Berlioz: Harold in Italy; Les Nuits d’Été
“All in all, Harold is a disappointing work in so far as the stern philosophy of its opening is not maintained” (J H Elliot in The Master...
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Mon 20 May, 2019:
Haydn: Die sieben letzten Worte (The Seven Last Words) – Orchestral Version
Daring to dig deep, daring to be emotional, daring to throw caution to the winds. They were the objectives of six string quartets formed from students...
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Wed 15 May, 2019:
Jess Gillam: Rise – Music by Pedro Iturralde, Kate Bush, Alessandro Marcello, Darius Milhaud, John Williams, Michael Nyman, John Harle, David Bowie, Kurt Weill, John Dowland, Rudy Wiedoeft, Dmitri Shostakovich, Francis Lai, Traditional.
With an appearance at the Last Night of the Proms closing her teens in 2018 and her own BBC Radio 3 show ushering in her twenties, Jess Gillam is a...
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Thu 04 Apr, 2019:
Celebrating John Williams
Harking back to Hollywood’s Golden Age, John Williams single-handedly returned the symphony orchestra to the cinema screen in the late 1970s. Since...
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Mon 01 Apr, 2019:
David Fennessy: Panopticon; Piano Trio (Music for the pauses in a conversation between John Cage and Morton Feldman); 13 Factories; Hirta Rounds
There’s so much to admire, be intrigued, excited, engaged and pleased by in this fascinating collection of pieces by the Irish composer David...
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