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ELGAR: String Quartet and Piano Quintet with Brodsky Quartet

Posted on 22 April, 2019

ELGAR: String Quartet in E minor, Piano Quintet in A minor Martin Roscoe, Brodsky Quartet Chandos 10980 @ £11 plus P&P About this recording …. The three great chamber works, the String Quartet, Piano Quintet, and Violin Sonata, were among the very last works that Elgar wrote, composed during an intensive and productive period in 1918 […]

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SCHUMANN and WOLF Lieder with Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten

Posted on 22 April, 2019

Schumann and Wolf Lieder BBC Recordings – previously unreleased  Testament SBT 1520 @ £13.25 plus P&P About this recording …. Benjamin Britten performed relatively few works by Schumann, although recordings indicate a rare sympathy with the composer. His main contributions were connected with close friends – Dichterliebe with Peter Pears, the Cello Concerto with Mstislav […]

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SAINT-SAENS: Symphony No 3 and Tableaux Symphoniques

Posted on 22 April, 2019

Saint-Saens: Symphony No 3, Tableaux Symphoniques Paul Jacobs, Utah Symphony, Thierry Fischer Hyperion CDA 68201 @ £14.25 plus P&P Gramophone “Fischer leads a superb, thoroughly enjoyable reading of Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony…And although the three tableaux drawn from incidental music to Eugène Brieux’s play La foi are a roughly sewn stylistic hotchpotch full of dull as […]

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Aaron COPLAND: Billy the Kid and Grohg

Posted on 22 April, 2019

Aaron Copland: Billy the Kid, Grohg Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin Naxos 8559862 @ £7.50 plus P&P BBC Music Magazine “played with terrific swagger by Slatkin’s Detroit forces…..” Music Web International “an already promising cycle just got a whole lot better; super sonics from Soundmirror, too.” About this recording …… Aaron Copland did as much as […]

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Songs by Eric COATES

Posted on 22 April, 2019

Songs by Eric Coates including Nursery Rhymes, By the Sleepy Lagoon, Rhapsodies, The Scent of Lilac, Dreams of London, Song of the Little Folk, Old English Songs, I heard you singing Kathryn Rudge, Christopher Glynn Somm CD 0192 @ £13.25 plus P&P BBC Music Magazine “This interesting new anthology is welcome …. a valuable issue.” Music […]

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