Oct 30, 2023 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
Having recorded Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Nine Symphonies for Onyx, Andrew Manze and the Liverpool Philharmonic turn to another VW masterpiece, Job: A Masque for Dancing. It’s a fine traversal: thoughtful, sympathetic, atmospheric, fiery, dramatic,...
Oct 30, 2023 | Guest Contributors, Videos
Edward Johnson writes… “Going back to Bernard Keeffe again, somewhat belatedly, how would you feel about adding him to the Column as a TV presenter? … He introduced a Stokowski broadcast in 1969 which featured the Beethoven 5th – described by Keeffe...
Oct 29, 2023 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
This musical Advent Calendar of a release avoids slushiness and sentimentalism, boasts many fine melodies dressed in sympathetic arrangements and brought to life by choirs and orchestra partnering the glorious voice of Lise Davidsen who sings without artifice, her...