Review: Elgar • Chadwick: Falstaff, Tam O’Shanter (BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Constantine)
It’s England versus Scotland in a rather unusual match.
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.
It’s England versus Scotland in a rather unusual match.
Two Barenboims and a mate run the gamut of emotions.
Honeck and his Pittsburgers arrive safely at Heaven’s Gate.
Vänskä’s Mahler One is not quite the sum of its parts.
Zhang tames a beast and pours new wine into old bottles.
Music for string quartet et al by Britain’s elegiac genius.
Lan Shui proves you don’t have to be French to sound Gallic.
Lan Shui proves you don’t have to be French to sound Gallic.
Pianist’s Romantic emotions possess flair and conviction.
Hewitt reveals miracles to come in unlikely selection.
Triumphant return to keyboard in Beethoven and Schumann.
Hollywood did exotic better than Khachaturian, but no one does horror like Shostakovich.
Davis’ and Müller-Schott’s Knight Errant portrait doesn’t err.