Chandos
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The Doric Quartet play with passion, but there is relaxation, even wit, in both these works, and the Doric seem to be eager to stress the prevailing darkness at the expense of warmth and lyricism,... —
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In a performance alternately as gutsy and subtle as this, [the Szymanowski is] completely riveting. The folk-inflected central movement brings some almost Rachmaninovian writing for the piano,... —
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Neeme Järvi and his Estonian players impart to these endlessly inventive scores an infectious sense of joie de vivre and conviviality that no doubt reflects the spirit in which they would have... —
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[Simon Standage's] essentially delicate sound is nourished by easy bowing and sweet but unobtrustive vibrato. Showiness is not for him and he seems happier when letting this music's clean lines... —
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Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra; Dance Suite; Rhapsodies Nos. 1 & 2
James Ehnes (violin)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
The Dance Suite is impeccably done, and James Ehnes’s intense, rhythmically taut playing does the Rhapsodies proud…the disc makes a worthy companion to The Miraculous Mandarin and Music for... —
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Royal Air Force 100th Anniversary
The Central Band of the RAF, The Band of the RAF College & The Band of the RAF Regiment, WG CDR Duncan Stubbs
It brings to an end a confident but also, at times, suitably sensitive salute to the service in courageous and highly accomplished performances. —
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Tchaikovsky Plus One Volume 1
Tchaikovsky: The Seasons, Op. 37 & Mussorgsky; Pictures at an Exhibition
Barry Douglas (piano)
Musorgsky’s magnum opus requires pianism of dazzling virtuoso panache, and here Douglas is really in his element. He may not quite evoke the wild irascibility and devil-may-care unorthodoxy... —
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Harmonische Freude
Works for Baroque Oboe, Trumpet and Chamber Organ
Jane Downer (baroque oboe), Simon Desbruslais (slide trumpet)
Austral Harmony
Some instruments work better together than others and the oboe occasionally overpowers the organ. Nevertheless, beautifully, joyously performed, this is a thought-provoking disc I look forward... —
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Little's style...[is] happily free of any hint of narcisstic self-regard, so that nothing stands in the way of her forthright and superb communication skills...Little's playing has ceaseless... —
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Hommages
Margaret Fingerhut (piano), William Bennett (flute), Margaret Cable (mezzo-soprano), Kenneth Sillito (violin), Clifford Benson (piano)
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