Browse: CD, Gál, H (composer)

If you think of Korngold, you’ll be in the right area: lush harmonies, soaring melodies and an expert compositional technique. The Briggs Trio responds to the style with enormous affection, following... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2018, 4 out of 5 stars/5 out of 5 stars More…

This world premiere recording…is an important act of restitution. Gál’s score, recalling in places Mahler and the Strauss of Ariadne auf Naxos yet possessed of its own voice, may not have sounded... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Orchestra of the Swan provide a quietly compelling account, relishing the many solos, duos and textural intricacies that Gal wrings from his orchestra. Their account of Schumann's C major... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2012 More…

Emma Wernig and Albert Cano Smit have chosen neglected repertoire that surely deserves much wider exposure. Hans Gál’s three movement Viola Sonata is a real discovery. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Ensemble Epomeo provide ravishing accounts of both Gal works, fully in sympathy with the idiom...A splendid disc that I cannot get enough of. — Gramophone Magazine, December 2012 More…

This fascinating programme of early twentieth-century songs (many of them by composers condemned as purveyors of ‘degenerate’ music by the Nazis) struck me as a sort of alternative Das Lied von... — Katherine Cooper, Presto Music, July 2018 More…

This is not Annette-Barbara Vogel's first Gál recording...Her new account is more assured still, more relaxed in allowing the music's inner volatility without trying too hard… — Gramophone Magazine, August 2010 More…