Review: Richard Rodney Bennett: Symphony No 1, A History of the Thé Dansant (BBC Scottish SO)
Wilson reveals the other side of a British film composer.
Greg Keane has been a Limelight contributor since 2008. He is a copywriter and has also lectured in music appreciation in the adult education sector. He has a prodigious collection of LPs and was previously a producer (aka the Dark Lord of Vinyl) of ABC Classic FM.
Wilson reveals the other side of a British film composer.
Two superstars plumb the depths to poetic effect, despite the name.
The Resurrected Minnesotans excel in Mahler’s Symphony No 2.
Nelsons’ triumphant Shostakovich series continues in a blaze of glory.
Yuja Wang proves that the hype (for once) is justified.
Endless inspiration from out of the Habsburg Boondocks.
Davis pays homage to the dreamers and the Glorious Dead.
Brahms and Schumann bring out the softer side of Gardiner.
FX Roth and his band blow hot and cold most beautifully.
Lugansky’s quite at home in multifarious music-scapes.
In Isserlis’s hands, muscular Chopin meets starry Schubert.
In Mozart, Barenboim plays the Yin to Yang’s Yang.
David Robertson's Mahler Five suggests just how much the SSO has assimilated Mahler into its DNA.