Sibelius and Barber Violin Concertos
I didn’t have this on my bingo card for a potential disc of the year, but here we are. Here’s a promo video: And, for all Renud Capuçon’s star status, it is Daniel Harding whose […]
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Running for Beethoven
From Daria van den Bercken: 18 Apr 2025 A running event during a classical piano concert. Is it possible? Yes! On the final day of the Piano Biennale Festival in the Netherlands, we held Running […]
Bruckner for Easter Sunday
Thielemann and the Bavarians, newly uploaded. Doesn’t get much better. The post Bruckner for Easter Sunday appeared first on Slippedisc.
The principal guest dances
The Czech Phil with its principal guest conductor gets grooving with the firt set of Dvorak Slavonic Dances. We ran the second set a few weeks back. The post The principal guest dances appeared first […]
Wonderful harp concertos from Anaelle Tourret
I received a review copy of this CD in the mail and thought I’d just sample it real quick to see if it was something I would enjoy enough to write about. And I soon […]
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons – for voices
Message received: A Season To Sing is a choral re-imagining of Vivaldi’s enduringly popular set of violin concertos, The Four Seasons, first published 300 years ago in 1725. RSCM composer Joanna Forbes L’Estrange is rearranging […]
Searching for possibilities: composer Noah Max on his four string quartets recently recorded by the Tippett Quartet on Toccata Classics
Noah Max (Photo: Richard Ecclestone) Last month, Toccata Classics released a disc of the four string quartets by the young British composer Noah Max [see details] recorded by the Tippett Quartet (John Mills, Jeremy Isaac, […]
More Lyatoshynsky Symphonies 4 & 5
After our recent trip to Waterloo for Lyatoshynsky Symphony No, 3, with the London Philarmonic under Vladimir Jurowski, I thought it was time to dig little deeper into the music of this composer, and on […]
Martha plays the second Beethoven
These days, she confines herself to the first piano concerto. But then the second was written first (see Why Beethoven). The post Martha plays the second Beethoven appeared first on Slippedisc.
Ruth Leon recommends… Canaletto – National Gallery
The Stonemason’s Yard Think Venice, especially if you have never been there, and chances are that the view that springs to mind will have been painted by Giovanni Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto. He was […]
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