Review: Dora Pejačević: Piano Concerto & Symphony (Peter Donohoe, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo)
Aristocratic by birth, noble by nature and cruelly cut off in her prime.
May 31, 2022
Review: Lennox Berkeley: Nelson (The BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, Elgar Howarth)
Avast behind! Lyrita rescues a 20th-century nautical gem from the archives.
August 5, 2021
Review: Alwyn: Miss Julie (BBC Symphony Orchestra)
Alwyn’s powerful reworking of Strindberg is superbly championed.
October 11, 2020
Review: Schoenberg • Brahms: Violin Concertos (Jack Liebeck)
Liebeck brings plenty of heart to Schoenberg, in a magical pairing with Brahms.
August 28, 2020
Review: Bliss: Mary of Magdala, The Enchantress (BBC Symphony Orchestra, Davis)
A mixed bag of loot from the Sir Arthur Bliss archive.
May 18, 2020
Review: Dame Ethel Smyth: Mass in D (BBCSO/Oramo)
There’s nothing like this Dame! And there’s nothing like this Mass.
March 2, 2020
Review: Sibelius: Lemminkäinen Suite, Spring Song (BBC Symphony Orchestra/Oramo)
Fine Finnish fare: Oramo’s Sibelius is laced with insights.
August 13, 2019
Review: Elgar: The Music Makers, The Spirit of England (Sarah Connolly, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus/Sir Andrew Davis)
Davis pays homage to the dreamers and the Glorious Dead.
March 5, 2019
Review: Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony (BBC Symphony Orchestra/Brabbins)
Many moments of grandeur, but should you set sail in it?
January 23, 2019
Doctor Atomic: John Adams on his American Faust story
The composer tells us about conducting Doctor Atomic, Limelight's Opera Recording of the Year 2018.
November 23, 2018
Review: Finzi (Watkins, Lortie, BBC Symphony Orchestra/Davis)
Watkins and Lortie help Finzi rake eloquently over Romantic embers.
November 12, 2018
Gerald Finley on learning to love John Adams’ operatic bomb
The Canadian baritone tells us about getting to grips with J Robert Oppenheimer in John Adams' Doctor Atomic, our Recording of the Month in October.
September 26, 2018
Review: John Adams: Doctor Atomic (BBC Symphony Orchestra)
Heart of Darkness: How to stop worrying and learn to love this Bomb.
September 26, 2018