Alban Berg Ensemble Wien records Transcriptions of Mahler, Schoenberg and Strauss for Deutsche Grammophon.
Alban Berg Ensemble Wien, led by Sebastian Gürtler, is a class act among its seven regular members and is open to friends, here the oboe of Nora Cismondi and the double bass of Alois Posch. Depending on when needed during this recital, each of the nine players is...
Cellist Ellen Baumring-Gledhill wins Junior Guildhall Lutine Prize 2020.
Guildhall School of Music & Drama is delighted to announce that cellist Ellen Baumring-Gledhill has been awarded First Prize at the final of Junior Guildhall’s most prestigious award: the Lutine Prize. Trumpeter Sasha Canter was awarded Second...
Eloquence collects Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt’s recordings of Brahms & Dvořák.
It’s good to have these well-preserved/-remastered recordings back in circulation. Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (1900-73) ensures that Dvořák’s magnificent Seventh Symphony is powerful, ardent, flexible, deeply-felt and spontaneous, recorded in Kingsway Hall when the...
Sad news: Maynard Solomon, co-founder of Vanguard Records and the author of books on Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert, has died at the age of 90.
This may be Column post #1,100 but it’s an infinitely sad one: soprano Erin Wall has died at the age of 44.
Erin features on Chandos's recent releases of Thais (title role; cond. Andrew Davis) and Peter Grimes (as Ellen Orford; cond. Ed Gardner). Condolences to Erin's family, friends and colleagues.
Eugene Ormandy conducts Vaughan Williams’s A Pastoral Symphony.
Eugene Ormandy (1899-1985) conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra (he was its music director for four decades) in Ralph Vaughan Williams's wonderful if poignant Third Symphony (1922), which has been described as a "requiem" for World War One - a very sympathetic...
The Cleveland Orchestra – Franz Welser-Möst conducts Schubert & Krenek.
Elsewhere on this site I review the first release from The Cleveland Orchestra (search “A New Century”). This second album (distinctively packaged as a ten-inch LP and with full annotation, although it's tricky to remove the disc from its compartment and return it),...
Queen’s Birthday Honours 2020: including John Mark Ainsley OBE | Sally Beamish OBE | Nicholas Daniel OBE | Jennifer Pike MBE | Donald Runnicles knighthood.
Composer & viola-player Sally Beamish [pictured] is to receive an OBE (Order of the British Empire) in the 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours, for services to music. The honour celebrates a career of distinction, and a musician of faultless craft,...
