Waxman, F
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I’m not sure there’s another musician working today who truly ‘gets’ what the ‘Hollywood Sound’ was, or indeed so successfully champions its place in music culture...Music from the likes of... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th September 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2022, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2022, Screen Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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Special offer. Fantasies, Rhapsodies and Daydreams
Arabella Steinbacher (violin)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Lawrence Foster
This recital is something of a triumph for violinist Arabella Steinbacher. [Waxman’s Carmen Fantasy] is finger-cripplingly difficult, and…Steinbacher makes it sound like a neat-masterpiece…saving... —
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Waxman, F: Joshua
RecommendedMaximilian Schell (narrator), Rod Gilfry, baritone (Moses, Joshua), Ann Hallenberg, mezzo-soprano (Rahab) & Patrick Poole (tenor)
Prague Philharmonic Choir & Prague Philharmonia, James Sedares
Waxman's command of his forces is impressive, his general musical language redolent of Mahler and Bloch. Rod Gilfry is a virile tenor soloist as both Moses and Joshua, but Ann Hallenberg is... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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The Genius of Film Music: Hollywood Blockbusters 1960s–1980s
London Philharmonic Orchestra, John Mauceri
this two-CD set of Hollywood classics, including Herrmann's Psycho and Mauceri's arrangements of Rota's Godfather, is a reminder of the LPO's commitment to film music —
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The playing is fresh yet refined and stylistically assured, with Moncado and Kajenjeri leaning into a responsive musical dialogue. The album's sound overall could be more open and expansive,... —
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Special offer. Adams: Violin Concerto, Corigliano: Red Violin 'Chaconne'
RecommendedChloë Hanslip (violin) & Charles Owen (piano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
It's excellent sense to couple John Adams's Violin Concerto with John Corigliano's Chaconne based on his film music for The Red Violin. Both require bravura of the highest order… This is the... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th August 2008
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An impressive debut disc previously only released in Japan. The young violinist delivers a beyond-her-years Shostakovich and dazzles in the Waxman. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Chamber Music
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The intrinsic qualities of the music featured here are self-evident. A wonderfully affectionate and strongly characterised performance of Korngold's Much Ado about Nothing suite sets the ball... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2024, June 2024
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