Review: Vaughan Williams: Job & Songs of Travel
Elder and the Halle travel inspirationally between Heaven and Hell.
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Elder and the Halle travel inspirationally between Heaven and Hell.
Music's enfant terrible gives good detail but short measure.
Two concertos composed a century apart resonate with each other.
Järvi and his Scottish forces provide 80+ minutes of Gallic sunshine.
Petrenko negotiates Prokofiev's emotional landscape to thrilling effect.
Simone Young offers up a feast for the musically starved in the SSO's return to the stage.
From Ives to Clarke, an intriguing mix of the familiar with the less-so.
Well played but is it really necessary?
Wilson cultivates an enchanted garden of quintessential English delights.
All rise for Angela Hewitt in the National Anthem and Beethoven's favourite earworm.
The Emersons transform Schumann's emotional volatility into pure gold.
Isaacs takes us on a picturesque musical journey, but maybe skip the booklet notes.
Many hands make Beethoven light (sometimes heavy) work.