CD Review | ARC Ensemble: The Chamber Works of Ernest Kanitz
ARC Ensemble: The Chamber Works of Ernest Kanitz ARC Ensemble: Erika Raum & Marie Bérard, violins; Steven Dann, viola; Thomas Wiebe, cello; Joaquin Valdepeñas clarinet;…
Browsing: Chandos
Lebrecht Weekly | The Best Record to Venture Into Nielsen if You Haven’t Before
At the risk of being sent as a Nielsen missionary to Patagonia, I will try to explain why the music of this island-hopping Dane can…
CD Review | Strauss: Salome; Malin Byström; Chandos
Strauss: Salome Malin Byström, soprano; Katarina Dalayman, mezzo-soprano; Gerhard Siegel and Bror Magnus Tødenes, tenors; Johan Reuter, baritone; Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra; Edward Gardner, conductor Chandos,…
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…
Concert Review | ARC Ensemble Celebrates at the Royal Conservatory of Music
The Royal Conservatory of Music’s full house who braved the frosty November weather was rewarded with three Canadian premieres of hidden classical gems by Friedrich Block, performed by ARC Ensemble.
Lebrecht Weekly | Vaughan Williams, Howells, &c. (Chandos)
Take a walk any time of year in England’s green and pleasant and, unless you’re very lucky, you will soon sink up to the shinbone…
CD Review: Chamber Works by Dmitri Klebanov
Dmitri Klebanov: String Quartets Nos. 4 and 5; Piano Trio No. 2 ARC Ensemble (Erika Raum and Marie Bérard, violins; Steven Dann, viola; Thomas Wiebe,…
The Polish Violin, vol. 2 (Chandos)
I should have been on my way to Warsaw for the Chopin Competition but circumstances intervened and I find myself listening to unknown Poles of…
CD Review: Dutilleux: Le Loup
Dutilleux: Le Loup; Sonatine for flute and orchestra (orch. Kenneth Hesketh). Sonate for oboe and orchestra (orch. Hesketh). Sarabande et Cortège for bassoon and orchestra…
CD Review: Dame Ethel Smyth: The Prison
Dame Ethel Smyth: The Prison (symphony for soprano, bass-baritone, chorus and orchestra) Words by H.B. Brewster. Dashon Burton, bass-baritone (The Prisoner). Sarah Brailey, soprano (His…
