
It’s impossible to write about The Dream of Gerontius with […]
Simon Rattle’s years in Birmingham constituted a phenomenon, no doubt
Happily, the rest of this disc is great too. The
Charles Groves was a terrific conductor and it’s proof of
I have no doubt that if the sun were to die out and there was just enough energy left to launch an interstellar mission to
This CD takes us on the proverbial journey from “darkness to light”. Starting with Elgar’s gloomy Cello Concerto (the lugubrious first movement has me envisioning
If you’ve been waiting for DG to systematically reissue its
OK, so we don’t actually need another box of Elgar,
This is a very strange performance of Elgar’s Second Symphony. Barenboim’s first effort for Sony, made decades ago, was a somewhat flabby but basically traditional
As readers of CT.com will know, I am a big