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The two Vaughan Williams works for viola and orchestra, the Suite and Flos Campi, are two of the most characterful and imaginative of all 20th
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
Although Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937) is best known for his virtuosic organ works, his F minor piano concerto is thoroughly idiomatic and often evokes Schumann’s propensity
This is very good second-rate music. Frédéric d’Erlanger was a count, or baron, or something like that, and he wrote fastidiously aristocratic, sentimental, lovely music
There is absolutely nothing above the ordinary here. Thierry Fischer’s choice of the original version of Petrushka could have been interesting, but the crowd scenes
Edmund Rubbra’s symphonies do not yield up their secrets easily. The idiom is unadventurous, and Rubbra’s relentlessly contrapuntal musical syntax lacks the sort of drama
My colleague Victor Carr Jr already has commented favorably on most of the individual releases in this fine cycle of Glazunov symphonies (all except Nos.
Although this recording is billed as “Orchestral Works Volume 1”, Chandos already has several Leighton orchestral pieces in its catalog, including the Third Symphony, the
The competition in this repertoire can be summed up in one word: Martinon. Yes, there have been other good recordings of Le tragédie de Salomé,
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
