
They’re at it again. Just as Elgar may have stopped […]
Like its predecessor, Volume Two of Toccata Classics’ survey of
In a catalog filled to the brim with world-class Mozart concerto recordings, any new contender must offer comparable excellence to win over discerning music lovers.
This performance of Hubert Parry’s First Symphony is a touch more expansive than Matthias Bamert’s on Chandos, but otherwise there’s little to choose between them.
Why? With so many fine-to-great Messiah’s already available, who stands to benefit from this lackluster, hardly serviceable offering? William Boughton’s conducting is pedestrian at best–the