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#NowSpinning Per Nørgård Symphony No.3. This is new territory for me, though it’s absolutely in my wheelhouse! These Symphonies are clearly highly evocative and searching works. Sometimes magical; sometimes disturbing. Always personal.
December 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
#NowSpinning Per Nørgård Symphony No.3. This is new territory for me, though it’s absolutely in my wheelhouse! These Symphonies are clearly highly evocative and searching works. Sometimes magical; sometimes disturbing. Always personal.
#NowSpinning Neeme Järvi’s magnificent account of Tubin’s Third Symphony. This is a very heroic and uplifting work. The sense of discovery in this performance is inspiring. The orchestra sounds thrilled to be playing it.
December 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
#NowSpinning Neeme Järvi’s magnificent account of Tubin’s Third Symphony. This is a very heroic and uplifting work. The sense of discovery in this performance is inspiring. The orchestra sounds thrilled to be playing it.
#NowSpinning Grofé’s Grab Canyon Suite with Dorati in Detroit. I barely know this work and certainly don’t know this recording. The colours of the orchestra are glowing from the very start.
December 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
#NowSpinning Grofé’s Grab Canyon Suite with Dorati in Detroit. I barely know this work and certainly don’t know this recording. The colours of the orchestra are glowing from the very start.
#NowSpinning Bartók’s Two Portraits and the Miraculous Mandarin, with Erich Binder and the Vienna Philharmonic. First disc in this recently-released box. I already had these performances on a Decca Double from Australian Eloquence, but great to hear it all again.
December 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
#NowSpinning Bartók’s Two Portraits and the Miraculous Mandarin, with Erich Binder and the Vienna Philharmonic. First disc in this recently-released box. I already had these performances on a Decca Double from Australian Eloquence, but great to hear it all again.
#NowSpinning Leonard Slatkin with Rachmaninoff’s First Symphony in St Louis. I already know his Naxos set, but have never really tried this Vox box. First impressions are of a dark, glowering interpretation.
December 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
#NowSpinning Leonard Slatkin with Rachmaninoff’s First Symphony in St Louis. I already know his Naxos set, but have never really tried this Vox box. First impressions are of a dark, glowering interpretation.
#NowSpinning Karajan’s 1978 Mozart K.385 Symphony No.35, ‘Haffner’. Well this is….big. I will wait until I have actually heard it all before making any judgements.
December 19, 2025 at 9:47 AM
#NowSpinning Karajan’s 1978 Mozart K.385 Symphony No.35, ‘Haffner’. Well this is….big. I will wait until I have actually heard it all before making any judgements.
Honestly? Just listened to these Walton 1 recordings and fell very strongly on the side of Thomson for many reasons. Mainly the explosive energy of the older recording really felt different. There is amazing subtlety in the new version, but it feels quite muted in several places.
December 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Honestly? Just listened to these Walton 1 recordings and fell very strongly on the side of Thomson for many reasons. Mainly the explosive energy of the older recording really felt different. There is amazing subtlety in the new version, but it feels quite muted in several places.
#NowSpinning Messiah, with Paul McCreesh. Those who know me will probably suspect this is music that isn’t usually in my wheelhouse, and that would be partly right. But this is utterly stunning and I was totally in the mood for it.
December 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
#NowSpinning Messiah, with Paul McCreesh. Those who know me will probably suspect this is music that isn’t usually in my wheelhouse, and that would be partly right. But this is utterly stunning and I was totally in the mood for it.
#NowSpinning Mahler Symphony No.1, with Paavo Järvi in Zurich. Here is a conductor I usually really love, so I am curious as to how this Mahler cycle will turn out. The opening is certainly clear-sighted and evocative.
December 17, 2025 at 9:55 AM
#NowSpinning Mahler Symphony No.1, with Paavo Järvi in Zurich. Here is a conductor I usually really love, so I am curious as to how this Mahler cycle will turn out. The opening is certainly clear-sighted and evocative.
Bestest Birthday to the Bad Boy from Bonn.
December 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Bestest Birthday to the Bad Boy from Bonn.
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Happy Beethoven's birthday to all who celebrate.
December 16, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Happy Beethoven's birthday to all who celebrate.
#NowSpinning Martinů Violin Concerto No.2, with Lorenzo Gatti and Walter Weller. The opening is fabulously gritty and gripping, but soon gives way to something more searching and insinuating. Martinů’s trademark syncopation is there, along with those fantastical cadences.
December 15, 2025 at 5:52 AM
#NowSpinning Martinů Violin Concerto No.2, with Lorenzo Gatti and Walter Weller. The opening is fabulously gritty and gripping, but soon gives way to something more searching and insinuating. Martinů’s trademark syncopation is there, along with those fantastical cadences.
#NowSpinning from one f my favourite CD sets of all time. The Suite from Christmas Eve, Rimsky-Korsakov’s rather marvellous opera. Neeme Järvi delivers all the glittering starlight, glowing energy and sparkling magic anyone could possibly wish for.
December 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
#NowSpinning from one f my favourite CD sets of all time. The Suite from Christmas Eve, Rimsky-Korsakov’s rather marvellous opera. Neeme Järvi delivers all the glittering starlight, glowing energy and sparkling magic anyone could possibly wish for.
#NowSpinning Svetlanov’s Melodiya recording of Tchaikovsky’s Tempest. This is a raw and very alive performance, which is currently stripping all living cells from the inside of my head. The white heat has to be heard to be believed. A quite phenomenal happening going on.
December 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
#NowSpinning Svetlanov’s Melodiya recording of Tchaikovsky’s Tempest. This is a raw and very alive performance, which is currently stripping all living cells from the inside of my head. The white heat has to be heard to be believed. A quite phenomenal happening going on.
#NowSpinning Shostakovich Symphony 15 with Järvi in Gothenburg. This has been a thrilling cycle and this one has started extremely well. Järvi has a real knack for letting it all hang out.
December 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
#NowSpinning Shostakovich Symphony 15 with Järvi in Gothenburg. This has been a thrilling cycle and this one has started extremely well. Järvi has a real knack for letting it all hang out.
#NowSpinning Sir Colin Davis’s Sibelius En Saga from Boston. This is the fourth listening in the last day and I am still trying to work out how I feel about the performance. Pacing is just about perfect, but is there something missing in the actual sounds the orchestra makes?
December 12, 2025 at 6:16 AM
#NowSpinning Sir Colin Davis’s Sibelius En Saga from Boston. This is the fourth listening in the last day and I am still trying to work out how I feel about the performance. Pacing is just about perfect, but is there something missing in the actual sounds the orchestra makes?
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8 December is both the Birthday of my all-time favourite composer, Jean Sibelius, and Finnish Music Day. Over the coming ten days I will be posting my favourite recordings of Finnish music, including recommendations for every major Sibelius work. Please do join in! #NordicDiscoveries
November 28, 2024 at 6:07 PM
8 December is both the Birthday of my all-time favourite composer, Jean Sibelius, and Finnish Music Day. Over the coming ten days I will be posting my favourite recordings of Finnish music, including recommendations for every major Sibelius work. Please do join in! #NordicDiscoveries
#NowSpinning Neeme Järvi’s Shostakovich Symphony No.13, from Gothenburg. For some reason I stopped at 12 in the series, so we’re going to move on. I’ve loved the cycles so far, but more so the Chandos discs. Ears and mind open, then!
December 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
#NowSpinning Neeme Järvi’s Shostakovich Symphony No.13, from Gothenburg. For some reason I stopped at 12 in the series, so we’re going to move on. I’ve loved the cycles so far, but more so the Chandos discs. Ears and mind open, then!
#NowSpinning Sir Colin Davis in Boston for Sibelius Symphony No.7. A truly inspiring work played by inspiring Sibelians.
December 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM
#NowSpinning Sir Colin Davis in Boston for Sibelius Symphony No.7. A truly inspiring work played by inspiring Sibelians.
#NowSpinning Bartók’s Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta in a gigantic, imposing performance by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Rafael Kubelik. I know the critics didn’t like his Chicago work, but boy do I like this performance!
December 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
#NowSpinning Bartók’s Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta in a gigantic, imposing performance by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Rafael Kubelik. I know the critics didn’t like his Chicago work, but boy do I like this performance!
#NowSpinning Sibelius Symphony No.2 with Colin Davis and the wonderful Staaskapelle Dresden. This is not an orchestra we’d normally associate with Sibelius, but being the great band they are they make it sound marvellous. Of course.
December 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
#NowSpinning Sibelius Symphony No.2 with Colin Davis and the wonderful Staaskapelle Dresden. This is not an orchestra we’d normally associate with Sibelius, but being the great band they are they make it sound marvellous. Of course.
#NowSpinning Sibelius Symphony No.3 with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra under Arvo Volmer. The opening is amazingly spirited. The spirit of the dance most definitely visited Adelaide when this recording was made!
December 3, 2025 at 5:57 AM
#NowSpinning Sibelius Symphony No.3 with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra under Arvo Volmer. The opening is amazingly spirited. The spirit of the dance most definitely visited Adelaide when this recording was made!
#NowSpinning Pietari Inkinen’s recording of the Suite from Sibelius’s incidental music for Belshazzar’s Feast. This is a stunning little work, though anyone interested in it should also hear the full score.
December 2, 2025 at 6:19 AM
#NowSpinning Pietari Inkinen’s recording of the Suite from Sibelius’s incidental music for Belshazzar’s Feast. This is a stunning little work, though anyone interested in it should also hear the full score.
#NowSpinning Vaughan Williams’s Christmas Cantata, Hodie. If you don’t know this work and love the soundworld of, say, Job then you would be in for a treat. There are excellent versions out there and this is definitely one of them.
December 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
#NowSpinning Vaughan Williams’s Christmas Cantata, Hodie. If you don’t know this work and love the soundworld of, say, Job then you would be in for a treat. There are excellent versions out there and this is definitely one of them.
#NowSpinning two beautiful works to kick off December. The Sibelius impromptu is next up in the Sibelius Edition Orchestral works box and is one of the most beautiful miniatures I can think of by anyone! The RVW Fantasia on Christmas Carols always kicks of December 1st for me.
December 1, 2025 at 5:59 AM
#NowSpinning two beautiful works to kick off December. The Sibelius impromptu is next up in the Sibelius Edition Orchestral works box and is one of the most beautiful miniatures I can think of by anyone! The RVW Fantasia on Christmas Carols always kicks of December 1st for me.