Lebrecht Weekly | Roberto Gerhard’s Sheer Eclecticism with Don Quixote &c. (Chandos)
Don’t try to pin an adjective to Gerhard: he transcends them all. The son of a Swiss-German father and an Alsatian mother, born in Spanish…
Browsing: BBC Philharmonic
Lebrecht Weekly | Mieczyslaw Weinberg: 12th symphony/Dawn (Chandos)
In Dmitri Shostakovich’s last years, Mieczyslaw Weinberg stopped writing symphonies. After his 51th in 1970, nothing more stirred in him until, in December 1975, four…
Lebrecht Weekly | Malcolm Arnold: Orchestral works (Chandos)
If Aaron Copland were English, he’d have been Malcolm Arnold. And vice-versa. Sometimes, on this cornucopia collection of Arnold’s music, the Englishman veers just as…
Two world-renowned violinists rise to the challenge, replacing soloist Veronika Eberle on upcoming OSM tour
Montreal, September 27, 2019 — The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal announces that German violinist Veronika Eberle, who was scheduled to perform all concerts as a…
Saint-Saens: Piano concertos (Chandos/Erato)
Camille Saint-Saens was the first Frenchman to compose piano concertos. Of the five that he wrote between 1858 and 1886, only the second gets much…
