Recordings

Haydn String Quartets Op 33 (Doric String Quartet)
Doric Quartet records Haydn’s Opus 33 [Chandos]
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The Doric Quartet takes an individual approach to shaping Haydn’s music.  The players’ ability to express a phrase meaningfully and then progress to the next musical idea without interrupting the...
Heinz Holliger conducts Schubert 4 & 6 [Sony Classical]
Heinz Holliger conducts Schubert 4 & 6 [Sony Classical]
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It is always a pleasure to encounter Heinz Holliger’s refreshing approach to Schubert’s Symphonies.  He performs these works in an unaffected way, respecting the tempo markings and within them shaping...
Martyn Brabbins conducts Vaughan Williams’s Fifth Symphony
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Much taken with this latest release in Martyn Brabbins’s Hyperion/BBCSO Vaughan Williams Symphony series I was conscious that it speaks with a quiet voice, unsensational to a fault. Need that...
Paavo Järvi records Franz Schmidt’s Four Symphonies for Deutsche Grammophon
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Paavo Järvi has emerged among the most assiduous recording artists of today, threatening to outdo his father in symphonic cycles (witness his Beethoven, Brahms, Nielsen, and Sibelius for RCA). Almost...
The Classical Piano Concerto – Howard Shelley records Johann Baptist Cramer for Hyperion
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This is a welcome continuation of Howard Shelley’s exploration of Cramer’s Piano Concertos. Shelley’s excellent recording of Nos.4 & 5 showed the composer at the height of his powers, Acclaimed...
The Launy Grøndahl Legacy, Volume 1 [Danacord]
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Several of these recordings by Launy Grøndahl – chief conductor of the Danish State Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1925 to 1956 – have appeared on the excellent 30-disc Danacord box...
Piano Quintets by d'Erlanger & Dunhill
Piers Lane & Goldner String Quartet – Piano Quintets by d’Erlanger & Dunhill
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Baron Frédéric Alfred d'Erlanger (1868-1943) – “Baron Fred” to family and friends – was one of the great altruistic characters of pre-war London life. Born in Paris, British naturalised, the...
Duarte Lobo: Masses – Cupertinos [Hyperion]
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This appears to be the first recording devoted exclusively to the Portuguese composer Duarte Lobo (c.1565-1646) since The Tallis Scholars issued his Requiem and Missa vox clamantis in 1992. Not to be...
Marc-André Hamelin: Liszt & Thalberg [Hyperion]
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September 1960. Kensington Odeon. A clandestine afternoon watching Dirk Bogarde’s Song Without End biopic, a travesty redeemed only by an unknown off-the-shelf tinkler playing the soundtrack. Jorge Bolet. (Hollywood music...
Harold Shapero: Orchestral Works
Orchestral Music by Harold Shapero [BMOP]
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First some background. Harold Shapero (1920-2013), one of the lost greats of American music, was part of a mainly East Coast Jewish set of composers complementing the literary talents of...
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