Streaming and Classical music: Reconciliation at Last
Already prophesied at the end of the last century, the decline of physical media and the concomitant rise of digital broadcasting platforms have brought about…
Browsing: Naxos
Grace Williams: Chamber music (Naxos)
If you haven’t heard of Grace Williams, it’s not entirely down to vicious male suppression. The Welsh composer (1906-1977) studied in London with Ralph Vaughan…
Liszt: Etudes d’execution transcendente (Naxos)
If you live in the age of Heifetz, a great violinist once told me, you need to find a different angle. Knowing that there is…
Gorecki: String quartets (Naxos)
Ever wonder what Henryk Mikolaj Górecki did before he hit the jackpot with that million-selling third symphony? The sage of Katowice never stuck to any…
Tafelmusik to Release Complete Beethoven Symphonies on September 22, 2017
“Weil and his [Tafelmusik] players convince us that Beethoven can sound as radical in the 21st century as he must have done in the 19th”…
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, String Quartet No. 3 in B flat major
James Campbell, clarinet; New Zealand String Quartet Naxos 8.573454, 76 min 36 s. For many Canadian music-lovers clarinetist James Campbell will be the main attraction…
Lebrecht Weekly – Leonard Bernstein: Symphonies 1 and 2 (Naxos)
Bernstein’s three symphonies have not enjoyed much exposure on record. Aside from the Sony and DG releases conducted by the composer, my database calls up…
Lebrecht Weekly – Boris Giltburg Plays Shostakovich
What is remarkable about both piano concertos is that neither was intended for virtuoso performers. Shostakovich wrote the first in 1933 for himself to play…
Lebrecht Weekly – Michael Nyman: The Man who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Naxos)
In the spring of 1985 I saw three opera world premieres in London in as many weeks. There was Busoni’s Doctor Faust in the restored…
Lebrecht Weekly – Bruno Walter: Violin Sonata / Piano Quintet (Naxos)
The most successful and elusive of Gustav Mahler’s inner circle, Bruno Walter was ranked among the foremost conductors of his time, esteemed equally by the…
