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surely only a dedicated ideologue would deny that Donohoe has here found a playing style that feels exactly right for the idiom of the music itself. —
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The opening Bagatelle demonstrates a fine touch and a well-judged tempo, creating an appropriately eldritch effect. Williams can layer textures subtly, for example in Prokofiev ’s Lentamente... —
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Total Eclipse - Handel At Home, Vol. 2
Silas Wollston (soloist, organ), Rachel Brown (flute), Adrian Butterfield (violin), Oliver Webber, Rachel Byrt, Gavin Kibble, Naomi Burrell, Carina Cosgrave
An incandescent presence, Brown deploys her invention, and the particular qualities of the traverse flute – its sensitivity to touch and breath, its audible woodiness, its luminous colours –... —
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Falla: Orchestral Works
Sarah Richmond (mezzo soprano), Clélia Iruzun (piano), Ulster Orchestra, Jac van Steen
the orchestra sounds stellar, presenting myriad colours, each instrument emerging balanced and characterful from the kaleidoscopic textures...More sensuality and roughness would not go amiss,... —
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She paces [the Chopin Polonaises] judiciously – with swagger but never too much speed – and in a way that bears out Rubinstein’s summary of this Op. 40 pair: the A major work representing Poland’s... —
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Orchestral Music by Howard Blake
Philharmonia Orchestra, English Northern Philharmonia, Howard Blake, Paul Daniel
Pride of place definitely goes to the eloquent string orchestra suite derived from music written for the 1997 film A Month in the Country...The score’s vintage English stamp (early twentieth... —
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Franz Schmidt: the Book With Seven Seals; Symphony No. 4
Julius Patzak (soloist), Otto Wiener (soloist), Hanny Steffek, Hertha Töpper (contralto), Erich Majkut, Frederick Guthrie, Franz Illengerber (soloist), Wiener Symphoniker, Münchner Philharmoniker, Graz Cathedral Choir, Rudolph Moralt, Anton Lippe
