
Two great British cello concertos on one excellent mid-priced reissue! It’s an offer too good to miss, and these performances by Yo-Yo Ma with the
The coupling is a logical one: the cello concertos of Elgar and Walton, played by British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, an empathetic artist with a
Daniel Hope is a young violinist whose previous Nimbus discs–especially a surprisingly exciting pairing of Shostakovich and Schnittke–have attracted well-deserved attention. His keyboard colleague, Simon
This disc highlights the virtuoso talents of violinist Camilla Wicks. Though Wicks was born in America and took her major music lessons here, she spent
William Walton’s Piano Quartet is an early work, influenced by the likes of Elgar, Ravel, and Vaughan Williams. The music is wholly lovely and it’s
Great Britain’s famous Proms concerts usually end with a program that is British to the core, featuring many favorites that English audiences expect in the
Paul Daniel’s ongoing series of Walton’s major orchestral works has been extremely successful, and along the way has benefited from increasingly fine recorded sound. All
The late John Barbirolli was a wonderful conductor, particularly of Elgar, and this performance of In the South, recorded in 1970, has all of the