While the list of great British concerted works for violin and orchestra is long and distinguished -- Elgar, Walton, and Britten's concertos along with Vaughan Williams' one-movement The Lark Ascending -- the list of great British concerted works for viola and orchestra is nearly as long and nearly as distinguished. In addition to the concertos by ...
The "English Rarities" heard on this disc by the Griller Quartet, one of the top English chamber ensembles in the years before World War II, were the three prizewinners in a string quartet composition contest sponsored by the Daily Telegraph newspaper in 1933. Would today's Telegraph, or any American newspaper, do the same today? The winners got ...
This is a sweet, but never insipid disc. While you might suspect the former of a recording entitled The Feminine Flute, you might also fear the latter, but flutist Christine Hankin and pianist Timothy Murray have chosen the repertoire too wisely and played it too well for those fears to be realized. On the one side, there are three perfectly ...
On this Lyrita disc at least, Elizabeth Maconchy comes off like a genuinely great composer. The supple strength of her Overture, Proud Thames from 1952, the rugged integrity of her Symphony for Double String Orchestra from 1953, the lyrical austerity of her Serenata Concertante for Violin and Orchestra from 1962, and especially the sublime ...
Anyone looking for a fine mix of traditional carols and less familiar but essential Christmas music will find that this 2007 release by Andrew Nethsingha and the Gloucester Cathedral Choir is well-balanced in its program, highly polished in its performances, and satisfying for its splendid sound. Spanning five centuries, I Saw Three Ships opens ...
With a theme like Twentieth Century Works for Cello & Strings, the possibilities of music to program are quite extensive. Cellist Raphael Wallfisch and the Sudwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim under William Boughton selected a broad swath of repertoire ranging from familiar composers like Hindemith and Lutoslawski while simultaneously ...
As bassist Leon Bosch mentions (repeatedly) in his liner notes, the double bass is most assuredly a "Cinderella instrument." Works for the bass are a hard sell, not because they are of inferior quality or because the bass cannot hold its own as a solo instrument, but because these qualities are perceived to be true. On his album The British Double ...
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