
If you’re new to the music of Anton Webern, this superb budget CD is just the introduction you need. Until now, there’s been nothing much
I disliked Naxos’ recording of Hamilton Harty’s Irish Symphony, finding the performance overly breathless and oddly balanced, but this version of the Piano Concerto is
This disc highlights the heroic side of Charles Villiers Stanford, an expressive perspective at which he was only partially successful. His Overture in the style
There’s a tendency to consider all of Victor Herbert’s concert works in the same category as his operettas: “light” music, amiable and diverting, but not
Paine’s Second Symphony, subtitled “In the Spring”, is a more ambitious work than his First, and it’s less successful. Despite a slightly more advanced harmonic
Every so often a Dussek disc comes out and we
E.J. Moeran really was a good composer. His style sounds a bit like a mixture of Vaughan Williams and Walton: the folk-influence of the former,
John Knowles Paine won’t win any awards for originality, but these three works from the period 1872-77 are pleasing, well-crafted, and worthy of repetition. The
Although his brief life prevented him from being particularly prolific (he died in 1950, aged 55), E.J. Moeran was a fine composer with a distinctive
This disc contains a wealth of relatively unfamiliar music, although all of it has been recorded before. Holst’s “The Cotswolds” Symphony deserves credit for its