This CD was a challenge to get my hands on. It is currently available only as a download (or streaming), and though the CD has been listed on Presto for a few weeks, it has […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: 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’ […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
