Abbey Simon’s Reissued Chopin on Vox
Abbey Simon’s recording of Chopin’s complete works for piano and orchestra has been respected since its first release in 1973 (then as part of the first quadraphonic Vox Box 3LP release, SXVBX 5126). What we […]
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Tears are my daily food: Handel Chandos Anthems from Musica Gloria
Recorded in Antwerp, this new disc of two of Handel’s Chandos Anthems and an Oboe Concerto from Musica Gloria, Tears are my daily food, acts as a reminder of this ensemble’s importance. Here are intimate […]
2025 in Concert Reviews: women’s voices, Barenboim defying age, rare melodrama, Ukraine at war, Big Baroque, and much-delayed Bliss
Bach: Mass in B Minor – Peter Whelan, Irish Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin The unusual, the rare and the undeservedly neglected often feature strongly in my own personal interests. 2025 featured […]
Best and Worst of the Year 2025
After a rather ho-hum start to the year, there ended up being many, many wonderful new releases – many fully deserving a “Best of the Year” accolade. And even though there were lots of fair-to-middlin’ […]
Letter from Florida: Manfred Honeck conducts Mahler’s 4th with New World Symphony in Miami
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 – Manfred Honeck, New World Symphony – New World Center, Miami Johann Strauss: Overture to Die Fledermaus, Haydn: Symphony No. 93 in D major; Mahler: Symphony No. 4; Lauren Snouffer, New World […]
Arthur Catterall: Mozart, Brahms & Franck
Preston-born Arthur Catterall was leader of the Hallé Orchestra (under Hamilton Hate) and later the BBC Symphony Orchesra (user Boult). He is of the same generation as Marie Hall (who also appears in this series); […]
Rare Raff: Die Eifersüchtigen (The Jealous Ones)
Only his week, we had the World premiere recording of Humpedinck’s Das Mirakel; today, it is Raff’s late opera, Die Eifersüchigen (The Jealous Ones, WoO 54, 1881/2) that receives its premiere incarnation on disc. In […]
Is Hindoyan fizzling out already in Liverpool?
What was Onyx thinking, releasing this right on the heels of JoAnn Falletta’s electrifying Naxos recording of this same theme and repertoire? It would be difficult for any recording to measure up with that still […]
Wilson breezes through Walton’s 1st Symphony. (Plus a wonderful Cello Concerto)
If you think you know what Wilson is going to sound like in Walton’s 1st Symphony, you’re probably right. Though I was hoping against hope that he would surprise us and come up with something […]
Vilde Frang returns – in Elgar
We have met violinist Vilde Frang on evil occasions, most memorably in her coupling of Beethoven and Stravinsky, in Berg at the Barbican, and in Bartók in Berlin. We have also considered Albert Sammons’ recording […]
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