CPO
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On the plus side, dynamics are varied and alert, and sound is clear and vibrant. Ultimately though, what is missing in the music is memorable thematic ideas – Romberg would not pass the Old... —
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so that's it: feel-good music crafted for easy-access pleasure. —
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a potently epic symphony. The music occupies a country to which Richard Strauss and Anton Bruckner had already laid claim...Asszonyi is a singer to be reckoned with and so is this extended love... —
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Louis Glass: Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 43
Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie, Daniel Raiskin
Glass may not have had the inventive genius of his contemporary Nielsen but, in his own tuneful, late-Romantic way, was no mean symphonist. The Adagio third movement here is particularly exquisite. —
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This disc is from a somewhat specialist area but it’s wonderfully played and will give much pleasure especially to lovers of the early baroque. —
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This disc is confidently recommended, both for Korstick’s muscular virtuosity and for Kabalevsky’s imaginative handling of a mainstream style. At his best, this composer wrote highly polished... —
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On this evidence Van Gilse has a penchant for glowing radiance; drama comes to him more fitfully. This may be his weakness but for the listener in the right mood that is also his shining strength. —
