
Before he lost interest in classical music, at the very […]
It’s all too easy to take Kathryn Stott for granted.
The last time we saw Conifer’s Malcolm Arnold Edition, it
The album title for this two CD set, “Sir William
Handley’s Vaughan Williams cycle vies with Slatkin’s on RCA for
At only 45 minutes of music, this set offers poor value, which is a pity because the performances are wonderful. Happily, the two Vaughan Williams
Richard Hickox’s performances of these two symphonies for Chandos are very good; indeed, his take on the first movement of the Sixth Symphony, so redolent
On balance, this remains the finest performance of Arthur Bliss’ rich and ripe A Colour Symphony, with its chivalric subtext and dynamic treatment of a
Hyperion’s Bantock recordings have been justly celebrated as burnishing (at least somewhat) the image of a very important turn-of-the-century English composer. There is some wonderful
Granville Bantock’s 1911 Overture to a Greek Tragedy: Odepius at Colonus owes much to its era, shot-through as it is with stylistic echoes of Wagner,