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BBC Symphony Orchestra

Classical Music Album Review: Martyn Brabbins conducts Vaughan Williams

This BBC Symphony Orchestra series, dedicated to Ralph Vaughan Williams’ nine symphonies, comes to a triumphant end with this disc.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: BBC Symphony Orchestra, Elizabeth Watts, Hyperion, Martyn Brabbins, Ralph Vaughan Wiliams, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Vaughan Williams

Classical CD Reviews: Beethoven Complete Piano Concerto Box Sets

It’s Beethoven’s 250th birthday year: reviews of four sets of the complete piano concertos from, respectively, Paul Lewis, Stewart Goodyear, Inon Barnatan, and Stephen Hough.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Alan Gilbert, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Harmonia Mundi, Hyperion, Inon Barnatan, Jiri Belohlavek, Orchid Classics, Paul Lewis, Pentatone, Stephen Hough, Stewart Goodyear

Classical CD Reviews: Gardner’s Elgar, Francois-Xavier Roth’s Ravel, and Orchestral Music by Ruggles, Stucky, and Harbison

Strong discs from Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Francois-Xavier Roth and his Paris-based period-instrument ensemble Les Siècles, and the National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic, an ad-hoc summer orchestra comprised of some of the U.S.’s finest conservatory musicians.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: BBC Symphony Orchestra, Chandos, Edward Gardner, Francois-Xavier Roth, Harmonia Mundi, National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic, Ravel

Classical CD Reviews: Hindemith Orchestral Works and Symphonic Psalms

Conductor Marek Janowski’s Hindemith is all vigor and athleticism; Tenebrae’s Symphonic Psalms & Prayers is captivating.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: BBC Symphony Orchestra, Marek Janowski, Nigel Short, Pentatone, Signum Classics, Symphonic Metamorphoses, Symphonic Psalms & Prayers, Tenebrae, WDR Symphony Orchestra

CD Reviews: Ebony Quartet’s “Unheard” and Martyn Brabbins conducts Vaughan Williams

Ebony Quartet serves up a “must-hear” album of music from between the world wars.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: BBC Symphony Orchestra, Channel Classics, Ebony Quartet, Erich Itor Kahn, Hyperion, Josef Matthias Hauer, Louis Gruenberg, Martyn Brabbin, Otto Jokl? Hans Walter Süsskind, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Unheard

Classical Music CD Reviews: Vadym Kholodenko plays Grieg and Saint-Saëns and Javier Perianes plays Grieg

Javier Perianes is a musician of sweeping, Romantic sensibilities, eager to take a stand, and the result is a triumphant recording

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: BBC Symphony Orchestra, Grieg, Harmonia Mundi, Javier Perianes, Sakari Oramo, Vadym Kholodenko

Classical CD Reviews: Harmonia Mundi Serves up First-Rate Performances of Schubert and Elgar

Harmonia Mundi has, of late, released a series of excellent Schubert albums.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: BBC Symphony Orchestra, Freiburger Barockorchester, Harmonia Mundi, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Jiri Belohlavek, Pablo Heras-Casado

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