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…
Browsing: Edward Gardner
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,…
CD Review | Gerald Finley & Lise Davidsen, The Flying Dutchman
Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer Lise Davidsen, soprano; Gerald Finley, bass-baritone; Brindley Sherratt, bass; Stanislas de Barbeyrac and Eirik Grøtvedt, tenors; Anna Kissjudit, mezzo-soprano; Orchestra and…
Lebrecht Weekly | Franz Schubert: Orchestral Songs, 9th Symphony (Chandos)
Many composers have tried to improve on Schubert. Mahler made a string-orchestra version of the Death and the Maiden string quartet, Joseph Joachim orchestrated a…
CD Review | Freddie De Tommaso, Puccini, Decca
Puccini Freddie De Tommaso, tenor; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Edward Gardner, conductor Decca, 2024 At the improbably young age of 31, British-Italian tenor Freddie De Tommaso…
CD Review | Sibelius: Violin Concerto, Serenades, Humoresques, Earnest Melodies, Suite — James Ehnes
Sibelius: Violin Concerto, Serenades, Humoresques, Earnest Melodies, Suite James Ehnes, violin; Bergen Philharmonic; Edward Gardner, conductor Chandos, 2024 James Ehnes has quickly become the most-recorded…
Lebrecht Weekly | Jean Sibelius/Arne Nordheim; The Tempest (Naxos/LAWO)
Jean Sibelius: *** Arne Nordheim: **** By no means one of Shakespeare’s more popular plays, the Tempest has been adapted into no fewer than 45…
Fall Highlights: Orchestras
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Kent Nagano opens his last season as music director of the OSM on Sept. 17 and 18 with tough stuff: Shostakovich’s…
Mendelssohn in Birmingham, vol. 5 (Chandos)
This really useful series has reached a clutch of shorter pieces, all of them offering fresh insights into the life and mind of the travelling…
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…
