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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
Few if any of Peter Donohoe’s full-priced EMI releases have
As these eight CDs reveal, there’s more Britten orchestral music
The major work here is the superb Variations on a Theme by Hindemith, the masterpiece of William Walton’s later years. The definitive recorded statement of
John Gardner (b. 1917) is a composer who’s difficult to fathom. The light overture Midsummer Ale is delicious, full of good tunes, and well-orchestrated. The
Peter Donohoe and Martin Roscoe take to Rachmaninov like ducks to water. They luxuriate in his opulent keyboard idiom and even evoke the composer’s own
Ah, memories! I vividly recall when this boring Turangalila-symphonie was released on LP, how Gramophone’s critic compared it to Esa-Pekka Salonen’s then-recent Philharmonia recording for
This marvelous collection (a reissue of a set released in 1991, compiled from earlier recordings) reaffirms Benjamin Britten as one of the great composers of
Henry Litolff’s delightful works for piano and orchestra published under the label “Concerto Symphonique” have not deserved their current neglect, and Hyperion’s advocacy on their
This high-quality production begins with Tim Hugh’s lucid, thoughtful, penetrating account of Gerald Finzi’s reflective and often elusive Cello concerto. Hugh’s measured, noble expressivity gives
