Latest News: Classical, Naxos (label)
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Recording of the Week,
Moeran Cello Concerto from Guy Johnston 25th March 2013Eloquent yet never saccharine, the British cellist is a wonderful ambassador for Moeran’s 1945 concerto, written for his wife-to-be Peers Coetmore and shot through with glimpses of Britten, Vaughan Williams and Walton.
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Recording of the Week,
Holst and Delius on Naxos 16th July 2012JoAnn Falletta conducts the Ulster Orchestra in Holst’s Cotswolds Symphony, and David Hill directs Delius’s Nietzsche-inspired Mass for Life with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
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Recording of the Week,
Shostakovich Symphonies from Petrenko and the RLPO 11th June 2012The seventh instalment of the Russian conductor’s acclaimed Shostakovich cycle finds his Liverpool orchestra on top form in the Second and Fifteenth Symphonies.
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Recording of the Week,
Shostakovich 11 from the RLPO 6th April 2009The latest instalment of Vasily Petrenko’s Shostakovich cycle with his Liverpool orchestra prompts Chris to draw comparisons with Rattle’s landmark work with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra…
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Recording of the Week,
Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony 3rd November 2008The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and their principal conductor Vasily Petrenko give a ‘bright and characterful’ account of Tchaikovsky’s Byron-inspired symphony, coupled with the symphonic ballad The Voyevoda.
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Recording of the Week,
Chloë Hanslip and the unfamiliar 4th August 2008The young British violinist ventures off the beaten track with concertos by John Adams and John Corigliano, and a recital of virtuoso showpieces by Antonio Bazzini, best known for his fiendish ‘Dance of the Goblins’.