Toccata Classics
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Robin Milford: Chamber Music
Robert Plane (clarinet), Lucy Gould, Mia Cooper (violins), David Adams (viola), Alice Neary (cello), Benjamin Frith (piano)
Gould Piano Trio
All this music is very attractive, and often more than that, but most attractive of all…is the 1948 Trio…so consistently fine is the playing that there can be no reason to single out any one... —
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Special offer. Igor Raykhelson: Music for Viola and Strings
Igor Butman (saxophone) & Elena Revich (violin)
Moscow Soloists, Yuri Bashmet (viola/conductor)
Igor Raykhelson's seven-movement Jazz Suite featuring the distinctive talents of saxophonist Igor Butman and charismatic violinist Yuri Bashmet, must be regarded as one of the most exhilarating... —
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Words cannot convey how much I enjoyed these suites by Moszkowski. This is music I will listen to again and again, and I know you will too. Hobson and the Sinfonia Varsovia’s players are terrific... —
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Julius Röntgen: Chamber Music, Volume One
Music for Violin and Piano I
Atsuko Sahara (violin) & John Lenehan (piano)
Röntgen's melodic fecundity is heard in the Brahmsian E major Sonata and the Grieg-inspired Aus Jotunheim, whereas darker resonances infuse the later Sonata trilogica. —
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Weinberg: Symphony No. 21 & Polish Tunes
Veronika Bartenyeva (soprano)
Siberian Symphony Orchestra, Dmitry Vasilyev
It is a striking, viscerally anguished, emotionally powerful piece, as this fine performance by the Siberian Symphony Orchestra under Dmitry Vasilyev underlines...Weinberg's is a forceful voice... —
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Decent, Brahms-orientated music by this Anglo-German composer...Spooner's closely recorded cello sounds hectoring above mezzo-forte, lovely when quieter. —
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[Picker's] quartet writing eschews nearly all special effects in order to concentrate on the harmonic and polyphonic essence of his discourse. As in other recent releases, his powers of passionate... —
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Balakirev and Russian Folksong
Joseph Banowetz (piano), Alton Chung Ming (pianos), Olga Kalugina (soprano), Svetlana Nikolayeva (mezzo-soprano), Pavel Kolgatin (tenor)
Russian Philharmonic of Moscow, Konstantin Krimets
This interestingly-planned and generously-filled disc spans Balakirev's career, and his deep involvement with Russian folksong. Joseph Banowetz, taking the lion's share of the piano playing,... —
