Review: Music for Shakespeare (Daniella Svonavec, The Baltimore Consort)
In Baltimore, if music be the food of love, play on indeed!
In Baltimore, if music be the food of love, play on indeed!
Lesser-known works get sparkling treatment.
Revelations in store as voices are silenced no more.
Revived sonatas thrill, but what a pity there’s no more.
Flawlessly performed novelties from patriotic bravado to fantastical.
Vänskä’s Mahler One is not quite the sum of its parts.
Zhang tames a beast and pours new wine into old bottles.
Forgotten English concertos get a Latvian makeover.
Hollywood’s lost symphony – more gold than corn in John Wilson’s Korngold.
Sir Mark Elder’s first-thoughts Puccini may well give you the willis.
Overthought at times, but Barber’s forgotten gem shows much promise.
One of the young Sutherland’s early hits rises from the vaults.
Hyperactive, if nostalgic Flute comes with a shock ending.