It’s cellos all the way on tracks 4-8, “Arrangements for Solo Cello and Cello Ensemble” of Dvořák favourites, including Songs My Mother Taught Me and the Largo of the ‘New World’ Symphony. As an aperitif these work well enough – Kian Soltani and six cellists from...

Between them, mezzo-soprano (with contralto leanings) Kathyrn Rudge and Vasily Petrenko work wonders with Sea Pictures (1899), settings of various poets – she investing the words with much emotion and inhabiting the music with distinction and ravishing tone – ‘Where...

Danish conductor Launy Grøndahl (1896-1960, he was also a violinist in his younger days, and later a composer) is most associated, between 1925 and 1956, with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra (as it was known then), the band featured on this Danacord release. I...

“Carl Nielsen’s incidental music for The Mother was written for a gala celebrating the reunification, in 1920, of Southern Jutland with Denmark – one of the most important events in Denmark in the 20th century. The Royal Theatre commissioned the...