Recordings

Sturm und Drang 1
Sturm Und Drang Volume 1 – The Mozartists|Ian Page [Signum Classics]
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The final scene from Gluck’s Don Juan is an orchestral portrayal of the Don being cast into Hell.  A threatening slow introduction leads to the often-performed Dance of the Furies. ...
Haydn Op 20 1
Dudok Quartet Amsterdam play Nos. 1, 4 & 6 of Haydn’s Opus 20 String Quartets [Resonus]
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Here is the conclusion of Dudok Quartet Amsterdam’s two-disc presentation of Haydn’s Opus 20 String Quartets, the CD containing Nos. 2, 3 and 5 having been issued in Autumn 2019. ...
Gragnani
Filippo Gragnani – Masterful Guitar Duos – Jørgen Skogmo & Jens Franke [Naxos]
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Filippo Gragnani (1767-1812) was born in Livorno, Italy. He came from a musical family and his father Antonio was a skilled and now famous violin maker. At an early age...
Nordic Songs and Romances
Nordic Songs and Romances – Grieg, Svendsen, Sibelius, Stenhammar, Sunleif Rasmussen, Bo Holten [Danacord]
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It is impossible to avoid the term ‘Salon Music’; but let it be said at once that these are high-class examples of that genre.  It may no longer be the...
Bengtsson Brahms Beethoven
An Aldeburgh Tribute to Erling Blöndahl Bengtsson – Brahms’s Double & Beethoven’s Triple Concertos [Danacord]
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These recordings represent a tribute to the distinguished cellist Erling Blöndahl Bengtsson (1932-2013).  His rich, powerful tone is best heard in his notable recordings of Bach’s Cello Suites and in his...
VW 4 6 LSO 1
Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Fourth & Sixth Symphonies conducted by Antonio Pappano [LSO Live]
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It is one of the many paradoxes of British musical life that ardent Vaughan Williams enthusiasts are likelier to delight in the tweediest aspects of his oeuvre than explore his...
David Jones 3 5
Daniel Jones’s Symphonies 3 & 5 [Lyrita]
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The Lyrita Recorded Edition Trust Archive here puts listeners further in its debt with the latest instalment of Symphonies by Daniel Jones (1921-1993), the Swansea-based composer who is arguably the...
LSO Rach Sym2
LSO Live – Simon Rattle and Sergei Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony
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Sir Simon Rattle launched his LSO tenure with some audacious repertoire choices but here he plays to the orchestra’s established strengths. Unabridged accounts of this Symphony were rarer than hen’s...
Bartok Vol 2
Bartók|BBCSSO|Dausgaard: Orchestral Works, Volume 2 – The Miraculous Mandarin; Hungarian Peasant Songs; Suite No.2 [Onyx]
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Thomas Dausgaard and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra renew their welcome survey of Bartók’s orchestral music with this astute juxtaposition of works, written around fifteen years apart, which finds the...
Bartok Vol 1 1
Bartók|BBCSSO|Dausgaard: Orchestral Works, Volume 1 – Concerto for Orchestra; Suite No.1 [Onyx]
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Thomas Dausgaard has hardly been short of ambition as chief conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony and here inaugurates a series devoted to the orchestral music of Bartók that, even...
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