Review: Thomas de Hartmann Rediscovered (Joshua Bell, INSO-Lviv SO, Dalia Stasevska, Matt Haimowitz, MDR Leipzig RSO, Dennis Russel Davies)
Brilliant performances of newly discovered concertos by a Ukrainian maverick.
Phillip Scott is a long-time reviewer for Limelight and US music journal Fanfare. He has written four novels and the scores of several children’s shows for Monkey Baa Theatre Company. He is best known for his work as performer, writer and Musical Director for The Wharf Revue.
Brilliant performances of newly discovered concertos by a Ukrainian maverick.
A great, under-represented 20th-century ballet score, stunningly recorded.
Eloquence celebrates two remarkable 20th-century pianists.
Taut, precise conducting illuminates Stravinsky’s late masterpieces.
Paul Wee prosecutes the case for two Romantic concertos.
Watershed, though not strictly an opera, is everything contemporary opera should be and so rarely is.
An intriguing program, with a xylophone at the end.
A young talent tackles the Chopin études with flying colours.
Kathryn Selby and the Goldner String Quartet bid a fond farewell with a program of masterpieces.
Gens models exquisite French emotions in orchestral garb.
Great Sibelius from start to Finnish under a conductor to whom this music seems like second nature.
Concert works of a great film composer.
Another survey of the Schmidt symphonies: great music finally getting its due.