Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021] Archives - Page 3 of 62

Chandos releases Volume One of Grażyna Bacewicz’s Orchestral Works with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo.

Oct 21, 2023 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews

Born 1909 in Łódź, she died sixty years later in Warsaw, Grażyna Bacewicz’s music has become of current interest and will go beyond it. This excellent release, not least in terms of production values (Brian Pidgeon) and audiophile sound (Ralph Couzens) –...

Pentatone releases Lawrence Foster conducting Bartók & Kodály choral works with the Transylvania State Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra.

Oct 19, 2023 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews

Music by two Hungarian composers, and folk-music-collecting friends, performed in Romania conducted by Los Angeles-born (to Romanian parents) Lawrence Foster, makes for an excellent collection, very well recorded at Radio Cluj in May 2022. Kodály’s Budavári Te...

Francesco Piemontesi records Transcendental and B-minor Liszt for Pentatone.

Oct 13, 2023 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews

Captured in excellent sound, April & May 2021, in the twelve Études d’exécution transcendante Francesco Piemontesi offers amazing playing – embracing vivid characterisation and the sensitive etching of music that takes a pianist to Olympian virtuoso...

London Symphony Orchestra – Antonio Pappano conducts Ravel’s La valse & Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances, with Patricia Kopatchinskaja playing Fazil Say’s First Violin Concerto (1001 Nights in the Harem).

Oct 10, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Sunday, October 8, 2023 Barbican Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga With Antonio Pappano captaining the journey, recorded for future broadcast on Mezzo (catch it when it comes), this was one of those concerts when virtuosity and art, imagination and electricity,...

BBC Symphony Orchestra: opening concert of 2023-24 season. Sakari Oramo conducts Ligeti & Mahler, with Alexandra Dariescu playing Dora Pejačević’s Phantasie concertante. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Oct 7, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Dora Pejačević (1885-1923) Friday, October 6, 2023 Barbican Hall, London During this year’s Proms season Sakari Oramo conducted outstanding performances of Mahler’s Seventh Symphony,...

London Philharmonic Orchestra @ Royal Festival Hall. Edward Gardner conducts Beethoven’s Egmont Overture & Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony, with Christian Tetzlaff playing Bartók’s Violin Concerto No.2. BBC Radio 3 recording (broadcast October 4).

Oct 5, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Tetzlaff & Gardner (Chicago Symphony Orchestra) Saturday, September 30, 2023 Southbank Centre, London – Royal Festival Hall Once again Radio 3 failed to advise the date for a concert it had recorded (was it too much for the continuity announcer to share some...