RELEASED TODAY, May 5: Toccata Classics releases “Brahms by Arrangement”, Volume Two, orchestrations by Robin Holloway of Brahms and Schumann recorded by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paul Mann.

RELEASED TODAY, May 5: Toccata Classics releases “Brahms by Arrangement”, Volume Two, orchestrations by Robin Holloway of Brahms and Schumann recorded by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paul Mann.

May 5, 2023 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews

Originally published on April 15 The prize on this eighty-five-minute release of first recordings is Robin Holloway’s 2008 orchestration of Brahms’s Sonata for Two Pianos, Opus 34a, which became the magnificent F-minor Piano Quintet, and is now designated as a...
Column Post #6,300 – RELEASED TODAY, May 5: Martyn Brabbins, the CBSO & University of Birmingham Voices record Sir Charles Villiers Stanford’s Requiem for Hyperion.

Column Post #6,300 – RELEASED TODAY, May 5: Martyn Brabbins, the CBSO & University of Birmingham Voices record Sir Charles Villiers Stanford’s Requiem for Hyperion.

May 5, 2023 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews

If you are already familiar with Stanford’s Requiem (Opus 63; 1896) then you’ll know what to expect, and you won’t be surprised to learn that Martyn Brabbins leads a fastidiously prepared performance that reveals the music in the best possible way, superbly recorded...
Decca releases Ernest Ansermet: The Stereo Years.

Decca releases Ernest Ansermet: The Stereo Years.

May 1, 2023 | Recording Reviews

Pinned post* (please keep checking-in for additions, which you’ll find in the first Comments box) May 19, update for procuring replacement CDs: For UK residents ONLY with faulty Ansermet CDs, numbers 20 & 37, please email mk.customerservices@umusic.com for...