Browse: Ballet, Korngold (composer)

A hearty three cheers to this complete Korngold cycle from the indefatigable and inexplicably underrated Martin Jones. The first two discs have those extraordinary works composed between 1908... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

A too-easy consensus remains that the gold is suffused with corn, but while one is listening to these operas and songs, one is carried away by the gorgeous, dramatic music. Upon opening this... — Fanfare, Nov/Dec 2020 More…

the sustained quality of music-making on display here ensures that the collective result is something much more than a high-powered musical love-in...her approach [to the Chopin] is as fresh... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

What gives pleasure here are generally those works convincingly performed by the forces their creators originally intended. There are muscular, imaginative and witty solo pieces by Rózsa and... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2020, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 2 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The BBC Philharmonic under Matthias Bamert give an altogether excellent account of these scores and are recorded with remarkable realism. — Classic FM Magazine More…