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With Adrian Boult’s recording of Job locked up in EMI’s big Vaughan Williams box (which contains highly variable accounts of the symphonies and other orchestral
This 15th volume in Chandos’ epic (the cynic in me adds “and less than urgently necessary”) Grainger Edition contains the third collection of orchestral music.
It’s a pity that Delius’ music is so seldom played; much of it is really fine and distinctive. I suppose the problem at least partly
Frank Bridge couldn’t write a tacky note to save his life. It’s instructive in this respect to compare this premiere recording of his early tone
Volume 2 of Chandos’ enterprising Bridge edition makes a better overall impression than did Volume 1, though on the whole it has similar virtues and
Here’s a convenient box that brings together Richard Hickox’s generally very fine set of Tippett symphonies, though I wonder why Chandos neglected to include the
After this team’s horrendous Elgar Second, it’s nice to report that Richard Hickox and crew do much better by Michael Tippett. Of course, this music
Too many orchestras, too few great conductors, making too many recordings of the same music, and quality is bound to suffer. It may be that
Britten’s last opera contains some astoundingly beautiful and arresting music: the arrival in Venice, the passage describing the writer Aschenbach’s view of the sea, and
Herbert Howells is a marvelous, still-too-little-known composer, neglected essentially because he didn’t write many large orchestral works in traditional forms. Imagine, then the excitement of
