Lebrecht Weekly | Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
The Times of London has shrunk its weekly classical record review to an inch and a half. Other papers ignore recordings altogether, except in Christmas…
Browsing: Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz
Lebrecht Weekly | Miklos Rozsa: Orchestral works (Capriccio)
The works on Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz’s album “Miklos Rozsa: Orchestral Works” are unfailingly agreeable, if not uniformly top-drawer.
Shostakovich: The Bedbug (Naxos)
Whenever I hear music by the young Dmitri Shostakovich I am astonished all over again by his up-yours raw humour and ribaldry. This is a…
Goldschmidt: Comedy/Schulhoff: Ogelala (CPO)
I struggle to describe my joy at hearing two unknown works by Berthold Goldschmidt, a brilliant composer who fled to London in 1935 and lived…
