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#A-Schubert-A-Day Day 111 ‘Adelwold und Emma’, D211, from 5 - 11 June 1815. Half an hour of music from Schubert is always going to bring drama and contrast. This is a seriously impressive piece. www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dw.asp?dc=W2...
November 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
#A-Schubert-A-Day Day 111 ‘Adelwold und Emma’, D211, from 5 - 11 June 1815. Half an hour of music from Schubert is always going to bring drama and contrast. This is a seriously impressive piece. www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dw.asp?dc=W2...
#A-Schubert-A-Day Day 110 ‘Die Liebe. Clärchens Lied’, D210 from 3 June 1815. Inward sadness? Resignation? Kind of despairing in a soft kind of way. www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dw.asp?dc=W2...
November 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
#A-Schubert-A-Day Day 110 ‘Die Liebe. Clärchens Lied’, D210 from 3 June 1815. Inward sadness? Resignation? Kind of despairing in a soft kind of way. www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dw.asp?dc=W2...
#NowSpinning the next disc in Paavo Jarvi’s rather marvellous Erato box. I know not everyone finds something to love in Arvo Pärt’s music, but I do. I love the searching, meditative nature of his writing.
November 23, 2025 at 11:19 AM
#NowSpinning the next disc in Paavo Jarvi’s rather marvellous Erato box. I know not everyone finds something to love in Arvo Pärt’s music, but I do. I love the searching, meditative nature of his writing.
…actually becoming derivative. It certainly doesn’t sound like the mature versions of either composer, but has some of their early elegance and vivid orchestral colouring. It’s not a work I am going to rush back to often, but I enjoyed the conviction of Järvi’s performance.
November 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
…actually becoming derivative. It certainly doesn’t sound like the mature versions of either composer, but has some of their early elegance and vivid orchestral colouring. It’s not a work I am going to rush back to often, but I enjoyed the conviction of Järvi’s performance.
Järvi recorded an impressive series of American works while in Detroit, one of which was George Chadwick’s lyrical, somewhat heroic and warmly-conceived Symphony No.2. To my ears this fits somewhere in between Dvořák and Rimsky-Korsakov’s First and Third Symphonies without…
November 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Järvi recorded an impressive series of American works while in Detroit, one of which was George Chadwick’s lyrical, somewhat heroic and warmly-conceived Symphony No.2. To my ears this fits somewhere in between Dvořák and Rimsky-Korsakov’s First and Third Symphonies without…
#NowSpinning George Chadwick’s Symphony No.2. This work is new to me. Warm, confident and lyrical as the first words coming to mind here. I like the bright orchestral colouring.
November 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
#NowSpinning George Chadwick’s Symphony No.2. This work is new to me. Warm, confident and lyrical as the first words coming to mind here. I like the bright orchestral colouring.
#NowSpinning Lívia Rév’s Suite Bergamasque. I am immediately struck by the warmth of tone and songful character of the playing.
November 23, 2025 at 10:13 AM
#NowSpinning Lívia Rév’s Suite Bergamasque. I am immediately struck by the warmth of tone and songful character of the playing.
#NowSpinning Salonen and the LA Philharmonic play Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphoses. I think I prefer this work to sound even more unruly than it does here, but it’s nice! A really impressive showcase for a super-sumptuous orchestra.
November 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
#NowSpinning Salonen and the LA Philharmonic play Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphoses. I think I prefer this work to sound even more unruly than it does here, but it’s nice! A really impressive showcase for a super-sumptuous orchestra.
#NowSpinning something I have never heard before. Eva Dahlgren Jag Vill Se Min Älskade Komma Från Det Vilda, as part of the big Salonen box. It’s immediately fascinating music. I know little about it.
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
#NowSpinning something I have never heard before. Eva Dahlgren Jag Vill Se Min Älskade Komma Från Det Vilda, as part of the big Salonen box. It’s immediately fascinating music. I know little about it.
#NowSpinning Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto with Perlman and Mehta. This is an exciting work, but is it a little garish? So much the better if it is! Who ever said everything in music had to be super-refined?
November 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
#NowSpinning Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto with Perlman and Mehta. This is an exciting work, but is it a little garish? So much the better if it is! Who ever said everything in music had to be super-refined?
#A-Schubert-A-Day Day 109 ‘Der Liebende’, D207, from 29 May 1815. The happy lover beholding the beloved, full of joy and spring-like imagery. www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dw.asp?dc=W2...
November 22, 2025 at 8:01 AM
#A-Schubert-A-Day Day 109 ‘Der Liebende’, D207, from 29 May 1815. The happy lover beholding the beloved, full of joy and spring-like imagery. www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dw.asp?dc=W2...
#A-Schubert-A-Day Day 108 ‘Liebeständelai’, D206 from 26 May 1815. Graceful; flirtatious; comedic. www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dw.asp?dc=W2...
November 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
#A-Schubert-A-Day Day 108 ‘Liebeständelai’, D206 from 26 May 1815. Graceful; flirtatious; comedic. www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dw.asp?dc=W2...
#NowSpinning on this dark, cold morning. Leif Segerstam’s Helsinki account of Sibelius’s Tapiola. This is a tremendous performance. It’s deeply insightful and chilling to the core.
November 20, 2025 at 5:58 AM
#NowSpinning on this dark, cold morning. Leif Segerstam’s Helsinki account of Sibelius’s Tapiola. This is a tremendous performance. It’s deeply insightful and chilling to the core.
#A-Schubert-A-Day Day 107 ‘Auf den Tod einer Nichtigall’, D201 from 25 May 1815. The key of F♯ minor gives it an elegiac, somewhat mournful character. The mood is of remembrance rather than dramatic grief. www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dw.asp?dc=W2...
November 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
#A-Schubert-A-Day Day 107 ‘Auf den Tod einer Nichtigall’, D201 from 25 May 1815. The key of F♯ minor gives it an elegiac, somewhat mournful character. The mood is of remembrance rather than dramatic grief. www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dw.asp?dc=W2...
#NowSpinning Pappano’s recently released Vaughan Williams Symphony No.9. This conductor seems to be highly tuned into RVW’s turbulent side! I love it!
November 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
#NowSpinning Pappano’s recently released Vaughan Williams Symphony No.9. This conductor seems to be highly tuned into RVW’s turbulent side! I love it!
Nope you are correct.
November 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Nope you are correct.
#NowSpinning an exceptional, moving little beauty. F.S.Kelly’s Elegy for Strings, In Memoriam Rupert Brooke. This is a heart-rending work. It’s only brief, but in its short span it brings enormous emotional weight and touching sincerity.
November 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
#NowSpinning an exceptional, moving little beauty. F.S.Kelly’s Elegy for Strings, In Memoriam Rupert Brooke. This is a heart-rending work. It’s only brief, but in its short span it brings enormous emotional weight and touching sincerity.
#NowSpinnng Britten’s sparkling Piano Concerto with Leif Ove Andsnes on keys. One of my absolute favourite concertos, clearly inspiring the great LOA to a spectacular performance.
November 18, 2025 at 5:50 AM
#NowSpinnng Britten’s sparkling Piano Concerto with Leif Ove Andsnes on keys. One of my absolute favourite concertos, clearly inspiring the great LOA to a spectacular performance.
#A-Schubert-A-Day Day 106 ‘Seifzer’, D198 from 22 May 1815. In this song the brook trickles past with a hint of loneliness. Or is it just Solitude? www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dw.asp?dc=W2...
November 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
#A-Schubert-A-Day Day 106 ‘Seifzer’, D198 from 22 May 1815. In this song the brook trickles past with a hint of loneliness. Or is it just Solitude? www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dw.asp?dc=W2...
#NowSpinning Although not the first recording, this is the first time I’ve heard Gregson’s Tuba Concerto since playing clarinet parts in the wind orchestra version back in the 90s! What a joy to come back to it!
Great fun. Loads of wonderful moments, gloriously done here.
Great fun. Loads of wonderful moments, gloriously done here.
November 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM
#NowSpinning Although not the first recording, this is the first time I’ve heard Gregson’s Tuba Concerto since playing clarinet parts in the wind orchestra version back in the 90s! What a joy to come back to it!
Great fun. Loads of wonderful moments, gloriously done here.
Great fun. Loads of wonderful moments, gloriously done here.
#NowSpinning Bernstein’s Divertimento for Orchestra. I found the West Side Story performance disappointing on this disc. Let’s hope this is better.
November 17, 2025 at 7:06 AM
#NowSpinning Bernstein’s Divertimento for Orchestra. I found the West Side Story performance disappointing on this disc. Let’s hope this is better.
#NowSpinning Bernard Herrmann Film Scores, with Salonen in LA. This is a brilliant disc, including a very special account of the Psycho music. Those tearing, shredding strings…..! To die for.
November 17, 2025 at 5:56 AM
#NowSpinning Bernard Herrmann Film Scores, with Salonen in LA. This is a brilliant disc, including a very special account of the Psycho music. Those tearing, shredding strings…..! To die for.
…Ireland and this work celebrates that idea. Bax didn’t really like to quote specific folk songs, so he essentially created his homage to Irish mythology through atmosphere and texture. It’s pure Bax and fabulously gorgeous as played here.
November 16, 2025 at 11:18 PM
…Ireland and this work celebrates that idea. Bax didn’t really like to quote specific folk songs, so he essentially created his homage to Irish mythology through atmosphere and texture. It’s pure Bax and fabulously gorgeous as played here.
On the same disc as the Tamara Suite is the tone poem Cathaleen-ni-Hoolihan. The work was originally written as the slow movement of Bax’s 1902 String Quartet in E, but Graham Parlett orchestrated it into the version on this disc. Cathleen Ní Houlihan is sort of a mythical personification of…
November 16, 2025 at 11:18 PM
On the same disc as the Tamara Suite is the tone poem Cathaleen-ni-Hoolihan. The work was originally written as the slow movement of Bax’s 1902 String Quartet in E, but Graham Parlett orchestrated it into the version on this disc. Cathleen Ní Houlihan is sort of a mythical personification of…
…Brabbins delivers the colour with great energy and panache. The Suite feels nicely ‘complete’ even though it is not. There is a satisfying balance of atmosphere and drive, which is beautifully handled by the orchestra.
November 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
…Brabbins delivers the colour with great energy and panache. The Suite feels nicely ‘complete’ even though it is not. There is a satisfying balance of atmosphere and drive, which is beautifully handled by the orchestra.