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We can only applaud the internationalization of this music, as conductors start playing and recording it outside of the UK. It’s tiresome to have to
Listeners familiar with Schnittke’s brilliant Concerto Grosso No. 1 will be quite surprised by this recording, as it features a revised version of the work
In the late 1950s and early ’60s, Vagn Holmboe wrote four sinfonias for strings, the first three having a single movement in several contrasting tempos,
If there ever is to be a twinge of international interest in Knudage Riisager, then recordings like this will be essential in spreading the word.
These very early works, dating from the mid to late 1950s, reveal Schnittke’s talent from the outset of his career. This is by no means
This collection of English chestnuts for chamber orchestra is designed to show off the talents of the newly formed Camerata Wales, and it succeeds admirably.
Vagn Holmboe’s superb series of chamber concertos has been excellently documented on disc by Denmark’s Dacapo label, but this disc is unusually interesting nonetheless, not
Owain Arwel Hughes’ Rachmaninov First is a marked improvement over his recording of Symphony No. 3 (type Q5500 in Search Reviews). What was tepid and
Owain Arwel Hughes seems content to let Rachmaninov’s multi-faceted Third Symphony play itself, not a wise choice in this music, which needs a definite interpretive
Before making a new recording of a warhorse symphony such as this one, the conductor should be chained to a chair and forced to listen
