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A bit more than half of this recording is excellent. The rest, not so much. We’ll start there. Martyn Brabbins simply lacks the fire that
Have today’s conductors and orchestras forgotten how to play loudly? I sometimes wonder. Perhaps Manze’s baroque bona fides hamper him in more opulently scored music;
Andrew Manze’s lite-touch manner works better in Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Symphony No. 5, where he successfully conveys the music’s pastoral and elegiac modes, especially in
This is a clever and attractive coupling: music for solo(s) and orchestra, including voices, nicely diverse and organized so as to make an intriguing complete
No, no, no. This won’t do at all. A London Symphony is a big, beefy, swaggering piece punctuated with intimate, poetic moments. Brabbins clearly understands
As we near the end of the “Luther” year, during which there have been many recordings released to commemorate the beginning of the Reformation in
The “Sinfonia Antartica” was a weak link in Andrew Davis’ last Vaughan Williams cycle, for Teldec. This newcomer is even worse. Of course, Davis knows
The Fourth and the Sixth are the most dramatic and violent of Vaughan Williams’ nine symphonies, yet somehow Mark Elder manages to render them both
This second release in Manze’s ongoing Vaughan Williams cycle, containing A Pastoral Symphony and Symphony No. 4, isn’t quite as good as its predecessor. It
Let’s be honest: Chandos couldn’t just come out and call
