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Sergei Babayan records Rachmaninov for Deutsche Grammophon.

Sergei Babayan records Rachmaninov for Deutsche Grammophon.

Aug 9, 2020 | Recording Reviews

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.

Michael Collins records Finzi & Vaughan Williams with the Philharmonia Orchestra for BIS.

Aug 8, 2020 | Recording Reviews

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...
Andrew Manze conducts Royal Liverpool Philharmonic in Vaughan Williams’s Fifth & Sixth Symphonies [Onyx]

Andrew Manze conducts Royal Liverpool Philharmonic in Vaughan Williams’s Fifth & Sixth Symphonies [Onyx]

Aug 7, 2020 | Recording Reviews

To be honest I have become adrift from Andrew Manze’s Vaughan Williams cycle, and this coupling of Symphonies 5 and 6 is far from new, but it is a good time to assess his view of both works given the imminent arrival of two more accounts of the Fifth – from Michael...
Nicola Benedetti records Elgar’s Violin Concerto with the London Philharmonic & Vladimir Jurowski [Decca]

Nicola Benedetti records Elgar’s Violin Concerto with the London Philharmonic & Vladimir Jurowski [Decca]

Aug 6, 2020 | Recording Reviews

This account of Elgar’s Violin Concerto gets off to a plodding start for a few seconds, then Vladimir Jurowski jerks the music into life – a mannerism that fails to convince, yet he has obvious sympathy with Elgar’s passions and the need for phrasal flexibility....
Post #700 – Dai Miyata records Elgar’s Cello Concerto with BBC Scottish SO & Thomas Dausgaard, plus Dark Pastoral [Dabringhaus und Grimm]

Post #700 – Dai Miyata records Elgar’s Cello Concerto with BBC Scottish SO & Thomas Dausgaard, plus Dark Pastoral [Dabringhaus und Grimm]

Aug 5, 2020 | Recording Reviews

This D & G co-production with Denon and the BBC may only play for forty minutes, but quality before quantity – this is an impressive account of Elgar’s (ubiquitous) Cello Concerto, portraying Dai Miyata as a rich-toned, thoughtful and passionate cellist. Recorded...
Sonatas for Violin & Piano by Elgar & Vaughan Williams, plus The Lark Ascending – Jennifer Pike & Martin Roscoe [Chandos]

Sonatas for Violin & Piano by Elgar & Vaughan Williams, plus The Lark Ascending – Jennifer Pike & Martin Roscoe [Chandos]

Aug 3, 2020 | Recording Reviews

On this well-recorded occasion The Lark Ascending (1914) comes with piano accompaniment – Vaughan Williams’s original version before orchestrating it. Jennifer Pike is sensitive on violin, rapturous, sometimes expressively free (as a bird), flowing upwards and...
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