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…
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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…
Tasmin Little (Chandos)
A letter from the English violinist Tasmin Little telling me she is giving up the circuit in a couple of years when she hits 55…
Vaughan Williams: Concertos (Chandos)
If I had to choose Elgar or VW for a desert island, I know which it would be. Elgar these days seems over-familiar, where Vaughan…
Chandos’s Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel Notable
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel (Chandos) James Gilchrist, tenor; Anna Tilbrook, piano; Philip Dukes, viola At the turn of the 20th century, the world was…
