Lebrecht Weekly | Ralph Vaughan Williams: Sixth Symphony (Hyperion/ICA Classics)
***/***** The English composer’s fifth symphony, like Dmitri Shostakovich’s seventh, was a musical turning point in the Second World War. Both exuded confidence in the…
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Lebrecht Weekly | British piano concertos (Lyrita); British music for strings #3 (CPO)
Lyrita: **** CPO: *** A Times obituary this week for Joseph Horovitz reckons that he could not decide if he was a composer of serious…
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 3 and 4 (Hyperion)
With Australia in flames, Italian cities choked by smog and parts of Canada enjoying an unseasonal thaw, I’m listening to Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Pastoral Symphony,…
Lebrecht Weekly – Walton: Violin concerto, Hindemith variations (Hyperion)
Any new recording of the Walton concerto will always be measured against Jascha Heifetz, who commissioned the work in 1935, edited the solo part and…
