Schubert 4 Hands: music from 1828
Some soul-searching lat Schubert today by two latter-day piano mastees. Leif One Andsnes and Bertrnd Chamayou are both poets of the piano (think long the likes of Murray Perahia). All the works date from the […]
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The Wooden Prince and more from the LPO and Edward Gardner
A short homily from the conductor, required to explain that the interval had moved from that advertised in the printed programme, served also to introduce the music of Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915‑40). A Martinů student (and […]
Hyperion Records celebrates The Romantic Piano Concerto with two 50 CD boxed sets
In 1990, a meeting between Hyperion Records and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra discussed recording plans. The results were three discs with Jerzy Maksymiuk conducting, Piers Lane in piano concertos by Moskowski and Paderewski, Nikolai […]
The vision of a healthier, higher-achieving future: In Harmony Liverpool Philharmonic recognised by Association of British Orchestras with their Impact Award
In Harmony Liverpool 13 Birthday Concert, 2022 (Photo: Mark McNulty) Launched in February 2009, In Harmony Liverpool Philharmonic uses orchestral music making to improve the life chances of children by increasing confidence, wellbeing, skills and resilience, enhanced […]
Ethel Smyth’s String Trio on Solaire records: Trio d’Iroise draw our focus onto this neglected piece
Ethel Smyth: String Trio in D Major, Op. 6; Trio d’Iroise; Solaire RecordsReviewed 2 February 2026 Smyth’s early and relatively unknown string trio is the focus for the engaging yet sophisticated EP where the players’ […]
Pairings: Sacred Works by Michael Praetorius and Schütz
This is Michael Praetoius (157101621), by the way, not Heironymous. Settings of the same text are juxtaposed against each other throughout, one by Praetorius, one by Schütz. Praetoius and Schütz’s parallel setings of the penitential […]
Out of Vienna: the Leonkoro Quartet on Alpha
A beautiful mix of Berg, Schulhoff and Webern here. This is the Leonkoro Quartet’s debut recoding fo Alpha Classics, offering performances of polish and superb resonance with the music of the Second Viennese School. Berg’s […]
Bohemian Rhapsodies from the LPO and Edward Gardner
A clever if geographically suspect marketing conceit unites two concerts in the LPO’s ongoing season. This was the first: four 20th-century pieces from central and eastern Europe which, to continue the pop analogy, have made […]
A Child’s Dream: pianist Alexandra Dariescu’s 10th album, on Signum Classics, launched at the Romanian Cultural Institute
A nine-year-old girl goes on stage to make her concerto debut in Mozart’s Rondo for piano and orchestra in D Major, K. 382 but as she steps onto the stage she trips and sends things […]
Anonymous no more: Seven uncredited 16th century works from a choirbook created in Arundel & now residing in Lambeth, here given voice for the first time
The Lambeth Anonymous: Recordings from the Arundel Choirbook; Iken Scholars, Matthew Dunn; RUBICONReviewed 3 February 2026 Seven anonymous, hitherto unrecorded works from the Arundel Choirbook now in Lambeth Palace Library now given voice by this […]
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