Posts Tagged ‘Andrew Achenbach’
ELGAR Violin Concerto in B minor, Op.61 (with alternative cadenza). The Crown of India, Op.66 – Interlude. Polonia, Op.76 – Dec 03, 2010
How odd that we have had to wait such an age for a recording of Elgar’s masterwork from one of its most steadfast and [...]
SUK Ripening, Op.34*; Symphony No.1, Op.14 – Oct 29, 2010
Jiří Bělohlávek breathes new life into the ambitious symphony that the 25-year-old Josef Suk completed in 1899. Having been weaned on Václav Neumann’s finely [...]
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No.3, ‘Polish’; Music for the theatre – Jul 16, 2010
Neeme Järvi completes his cycle of the numbered Tchaikovsky symphonies for BIS with this consistently engaging and beautifully prepared reading of the Third. It’s [...]
RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé – Suite No.2; Valses nobles et sentimentales; La Valse; Ma Mère l’Oye – May 12, 2010
The all-Ravel programme from EMI was my first encounter with the much-touted 34-year-old French-Canadian conductor, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, chief of Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitan since 2000 [...]
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Piano Concerto; The Wasps; English Folk Song Suite (excerpts); The Running Set – May 04, 2010
Here’s yet another feather in the cap of Ashley Wass, as he turns his attention to one of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s most searching and [...]
HARRIS Symphonies – Nos. 5 & 6 ‘Gettysburg’; Acceleration – Apr 21, 2010
Marin Alsop’s previous Naxos coupling of Roy Harris’s Third and Fourth Symphonies with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra was such a perplexing let-down (the towering, [...]
SIBELIUS / PROKOFIEV Violin Concertos – Apr 21, 2010
Born in Oslo in August 1986, Vilde Frang made her orchestral debut aged just 10. Since graduating from her home city’s Barratt-Due Institute in [...]
