Your guide to classical music online
Your guide to classical music online
This new release from Hyperion shows why the label is so revered by collectors: assuming the usual high quality of performers and engineering, you have
Although this recording is billed as “Orchestral Works Volume 1”, Chandos already has several Leighton orchestral pieces in its catalog, including the Third Symphony, the
This re-release moves the highly-honored 1989 recording of Kenneth Leighton’s Cello Concerto to Chandos’ mid-priced line “Chandos Classics” and restores it to its original pairing,
The sacred choral music of 20th-century British composer Kenneth Leighton (1929-88) has been fairly if not generously treated on disc, headed by excellent recordings from
Listening to this collection of miniatures by English composers is akin to passing a pleasant afternoon in a small gallery run by a fastidious, knowledgable,
Vernon Handley’s premiere recording of the Finzi Cello Concerto for Lyrita (with Yo-Yo Ma, no less) never has been released on CD, and this remake
If any composer deserves recognition it is Kenneth Leighton, writes Bryce Morrison in his liner notes to this CD. Though not completely uninteresting or devoid
