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Your guide to classical music online
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Your guide to classical music online
Little things first. Red Autumn is not a collection of Cold War spy stories from which The Hunt for Red October was taken. It’s a
Elizabeth Maconchy received her most significant musical training in Prague, and she cites Janácek and Bartók as her strongest influences. You can hear hints of
Edmund Rubbra’s first four symphonies tend to be hit or miss affairs, and the Second is arguably the best of them. Owing to a resolutely
Sonically this was not one of Lyrita’s best productions, with slightly dull piano sound and dense orchestral textures in works that are already quite thickly
Given Vernon Handley’s passionate, even eccentric (if amiably so) advocacy of the music of Arnold Bax, you might expect these performances to be excellent despite
This repackaging of Moeran’s shorter works offers predictably fine performances, well recorded. The outstanding work here is the Serenade, a sunny and smartly written work
Chandos’ reissued Grieg collection generates interest mainly for its generous program, offering a varied sampling of the composer’s orchestral works. However, while the music is
This generously-filled Schubert disc features Heinrich Schiff leading engaging accounts of Symphonies Nos. 3 & 5. No. 3 benefits from a disarming sense of innocence
Vernon Handley’s credentials in 20th century British music are second to none, and it goes without saying that this complete Bax cycle offers idiomatic and
It really doesn’t matter whether Granville Bantock is writing music about ancient Greece, the life of Christ, Celtic, Islamic, or Hindu legend, or setting the
