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2024-01-16 13:00:41
The Hongkonger is in high demand worldwide but says China is off limits — and explains why ‘Tár’ made her skin crawl
2024-01-01 04:30:00
BH’s Favorite Recordings of 2023
[…] is by turns playful and serious, light and dark, swift and slow, somber and feverish, reflecting the music’s moods in a performance that rewards repeated hearings. Alpha’s outstanding sound compliments and completes the picture. By the way, technically this recording is a 2022 release, but I didn’t get around to publishing a review until January of this year, so it makes the list anyway. Arnold: Concerto No. 1 for Clarinet and Strings Op. 20; etc. Chandos Chan 20152. This disk of multiple works by Malcolm Arnold (I named only the Clarinet Concerto in the headline above) was reviewed by our colleague, Ryan Ross, but I’m including it here because it meets the criteria of interest and excellence. Frankly, I was only vaguely familiar with the music of Malcolm Arnold; this disk was an excellent introduction to a composer that I need to, and am getting to, know better. If you, […]
2023-12-21 04:30:00
Chamber Works by Robert Müller-Hartmann (CD Review)
by Ryan RossRobert Müller-Hartmann: String Quartet No. 2; Three Intermezzi and Scherzo; Two Pieces for Cello and Piano; Violin Sonata. ARC Ensemble. Chandos Chan 20294.Prior to this disc, almost my only awareness of Robert Müller-Hartmann was his friendship and collaboration with English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. I knew that the former was also a composer, and had interrupted his career to flee Hitler’s Reich along with other Jewish German refugees. But I never had the opportunity to hear any of his music until now. Vaughan Williams much respected his younger contemporary and even went to hear his music performed on multiple occasions. One wonders what he thought, because if the works offered on this splendid recording are any indication, Müller-Hartmann deserves to be remembered as more than the great Englishman’s trusted assistant. I am conscious of starting to sound like a broken record when it comes to Chandos’s tremendous advocacy for neglected composers, but we do […]
2023-12-08 05:00:00
A Mixed Bag of Orchestral Works (Andsnes, Handley, Janssons, Loughran, Panula, Westerberg, Wordsworth et al)
Classical Favourites:01 Ludwig van Beethoven: Overture to Egmont, op.84 [8'56]02 - 03 Franz Schubert: Symphony No.8 in B minor. D.759 'Unfinished' [26'14]04 - 07 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No.40 in G minor, K.550 [30'50]Ulster Orchestra conducted by Vernon HandleyChandos Chan 8746 [recorded January & February 1989; CD issued 1989][digital download; flacs, cover, inlay and booklet scans]Recording venue: Ulster Hall, Belfast, Northern IrelandRecording engineer: Ralph Couzens; Producer: Brian CouzensJean Sibelius in the Bar of M/S Finlandia:01 Musette - No.2 from King Christian II, op.27 [2'07]02 Finlandia-hymni, op.26 no.7 [2'00]03 Polonaise, op.40 [2'06]04 Valse Triste, op.44 no.1 [4'38]05 Oriental Procession - No.1 from Belshazzar's Feast Suite, op.51 [2'33]06 Khadra's Dance - No.4 from Belshazzar's Feast Suite, op.51 [3'55]07 Romanssi 'Romance', op.78 no.2 [3'22]08 Alla Marcia - No.3 from Karelia Suite, op.11 [5'23]09 Timantti hangella 'The Diamond on the March Snow', op.36 no.6 [2'35]10 Fool's song of the spider - No.4 from King Christian […]
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