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The only serious competition for this new recording of Havergal Brian’s visionary, sometimes magnificent, sometimes loony “Gothic” Symphony comes from the Naxos/Marco Polo recording featuring
There seems to be a glut of new Walton recordings in the offing. And as you may predict, the performance of Symphony No. 2 is
Any new recording of the Fourth and Fifth concertos risks comparison with the benchmark Grumiaux/Rosenthal versions on Philips. Viviane Hagner hasn’t quite Grumiaux’s silkiness of
This music is nasty. I mean, let’s face it: what can you expect from a violin concerto inspired by the emotions of “abject terror, grief,
This latest disc in Chandos’ continuing survey of the works of Arnold Bax contains world premiere recordings. It opens with the London Pageant, which Bax
York Bowen was a splendid composer for the piano (and an excellent concert artist as well). His Third Piano Concerto is a single-movement piece about
You really want to love this project. From the first tantalizing glimpses of his richly scored sound-world on labels such as Lyrita, Cyril Scott has
Stunning, simply stunning! Michael Tippett’s greatness as a composer reveals itself perhaps most eloquently in his piano music. Freed of the awkward texts of his
This third volume in Chandos’ ongoing Cyril Scott edition is just as good as the previous ones, and if you enjoyed them you’ll need no
Raphael Wallfisch recorded the First Cello Concerto for Chandos, one of the very first CD releases on that label, coupled with the Barber Concerto. It
