First Hand
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Vividly recorded in St Barnabas Church, Walthamstow, "Cupid's Ground Bass' is perhaps not so much a temple, more an intimate theatre where all the colour and splendour of the Venetian opera... —
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Michael Stephen Brown: Twelve Blocks
Michael Stephen Brown, Susanna Phillips, Paul Neubauer (violin), Anne-Marie McDermott (piano), Erin Keefe, Jerome Lowenthal (narrator), Ursula Oppens (narrator), Osmo Vänskä
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BARTÓK: Viola Concerto (revised version) • Duos (arr. P. Bartók)
Paul Neubauer (violin), Cynthia Phelps, Ronald Thomas, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, David Atherton
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In summary, this is vital for our understanding of 20th-century Baltic music and just the sort of album I long for musicians to make. —
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Written at a time when most films were served by compiled scores of tunes by various composers, this really is one of the finest examples of early original film music. Wilson’s score is evocative... —
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It is fascinating hearing the famous Ravel quartet surrounded by the composers he knew and influenced in these performances from the quartet Brother Tree Sound. —
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Having commissioned the piece, Sandra Porter and Graeme McNaught have lived with Clara for a quarter of a century. It shows in their intuitively ‘settled’ rapprochement, abetted by Porter’s... —
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Ireland: Piano Concerto & Cello Sonata, Casella: Triple Concerto
Annarosa Taddei (piano), António Sala (cello), John Ireland (piano), Alberto Poltronieri (violin), Arturo Bonucci (cello), Alfredo Casella (piano)
Serge Koussevitzky
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BRITTEN: Les Illuminations, Op. 18 (en français and in English)
BARBER: Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24
Julia Kogan (soprano), Britten Sinfonia, Steven Lloyd-Gonzalez
Partnered by the Britten Sinfonia in fine form under Steven Lloyd Gonzalez, Kogan is radiantly commanding in the more driven parts of Les Illuminations, such as 'Fanfare' and 'Villes'. —
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