Philippe Jordan records Brahms’s Four Symphonies with Wiener Symphoniker for its own label.
The two Overtures and the Haydn Variations are not included leaving Brahms’s Four Symphonies to occupy a disc each, an extravagant arrangement given Nos.3 & 4, playing here for a total of just over seventy-five minutes, could easily be accommodated on a single...
Many Happy Returns to composer Alexander Goehr, 88 today.
Sad news: Erich Gruenberg, violinist, orchestra leader and teacher, has died at the age of 95.
Sergei Babayan records Rachmaninov for Deutsche Grammophon.
If there is a caveat for this release, it’s that the hour-long playing time is not enough – a measure of just how good this Rachmaninov recital is. Sergei Babayan has chosen fifteen pieces – mostly from the Preludes and Etudes-tableaux, adding, as a novelty, Volodos’s...
Michael Collins records Finzi & Vaughan Williams with the Philharmonia Orchestra for BIS.
Just a few days ago I wrote favourable words about Andrew Manze’s Onyx recording of Vaughan Williams’s Fifth Symphony, mentioning imminent ones of it from Michael Collins and Martyn Brabbins. Here’s the Collins, his recording debut as a podium-standing conductor, and...
From the Anderson Archive – No.9 – Ida Haendel records Elgar’s Violin Concerto with Sir Adrian Boult and the London Philharmonic for EMI/HMV.
I needed a corrective to two recent Elgar Violin Concertos that I experienced – the inconsistent (shall we say) approach from Nicola Benedetti for Decca, and the shambolic Proms account (given during the 2008 season) from Nigel Kennedy, often hectic and messy, that...
Dallas Symphony Announces a Full Fall Season.
"The DSO will perform a full slate of one-hour orchestral concerts September 4 through November 29 in Meyerson Center. Audiences will be limited to 75 and ensembles of up to 40 will perform symphonic repertoire; thus begins Fabio Luisi's first season as music...
Ed Yim Leaves ACO for Top Post at WQXR.
"The president and CEO of the American Composers Orchestra is to be the new chief content officer for New York Public Radio's WQXR as of September 28. In his new job he'll oversee everything from broadcasts to podcasts to budgeting and fund raising." [Musical America...
BBC Proms 2020 – Berliner Philharmoniker – Sir Simon Rattle conducts Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances & Stravinsky’s Firebird.
Friday 7 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 @ 7.30 p.m. Recorded at Royal Albert Hall on 5 September 2014 The following review was written by Chris Caspell, attending the concert for The Classical Source; it is republished here with a few small amendments... In their first Prom...