Nov 7, 2020 | Recording Reviews
With a dramatic flourish, Nicolas Hodges introduces Beethoven’s Fantasy (Opus 77) and goes on to parade the work’s multifaceted nature with relish as well as superb playing, recorded, as throughout this notable release, with exemplary presence and clarity in November...
Nov 1, 2020 | Recording Reviews
This eighty-seven-minute release completes Andrew Litton’s Bergen Philharmonic survey of Prokofiev’s Seven Symphonies (preferring the revised version of No.4) for BIS. The Haydn-tribute ‘Classical’ Symphony is nicely done, the first two movements especially,...
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Nov 1, 2020 | Recording Reviews
This generous eighty-three-minute selection of pieces from the three ballet scores by Léo Delibes (1836-91) – Coppélia, La Source, Sylvia; thirty-two tracks – makes for charming and uplifting listening: the music is wonderfully insouciant, spirited and colourful, for...
Oct 30, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Previously published on October 9 Although not released until October 30 I feel that an early share is in order. Martyn Brabbins has reached the halfway point in his Hyperion/BBCSO Vaughan Williams Symphony cycle and his account of the solace-giving and transcending...
Oct 29, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Although placed second, Debussy’s Faun makes for an ideal listening Prelude (and not just during the Afternoon) – sultry, fluid and ravishing from François-Xavier Roth, featuring numerous stellar LSO solos, not least a bewitching flute aperitif from Gareth Davies, and...
Oct 25, 2020 | Recording Reviews
This absorbing and illuminating eighty-one-minute account of the mighty Eighth (as revised and here using Robert Haas’s edition) heralds a Bruckner Symphony Cycle from Christian Thielemann and the Vienna Philharmonic. From the expectant (and unanimous) opening to a...
