Compiled from four live performances in 2005 and 2007, this hybrid SACD almost gives the impression of a single concert, so high is the quality of the music and so consistent are the performances by Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra. The album features Sir Edward Elgar's perennial favorite, the Enigma Variations, Op. 36, and the ...
Karl Jenkins is Britain's crossover classical composer of the moment, with some of the syrupy old-England nostalgia that implies, but with a knack for novel textures that grab an audience's attention, and for carrying them through in a satisfying way. The concerto format seems to bring out the best in him, and the five pieces on this album are all ...
Danish composer Per Nørgård's music for piano is refreshingly free from dogmatic allegiance to a particular system or school of thought. It feels organically imagined and develops according to its own logic rather than any conventional expectations. Nørgård is not afraid of repetition and the use of extended ostinatos, but he is clearly not a ...
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