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Recent Releases, No. 28
[…] have come to expect from Ondine, the sound quality is excellent, with plenty of impact. As an added bonus, the liner notes are helpful, offering useful insights into the music. This may not quite be a release for everyone, but if you are a fan of the music of Mahler, then Larcher is someone you really might want to check out.Elgar-Bridge: Cello Concertos. Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85; Bridge: Oration (Concerto elegiaco). Gabriel Schwabe, cello; Christopher Ward, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Naxos 8.574320. I suspect that there are many classical music lovers who have more than one recording of the Elgar Cello Concerto in their collection. I suppose, then, I should just cut right to the chase and say that the folks at Naxos have released another one they might want to consider adding. First of all, Schwabe does a fine job. His account is swift […]
2021-11-26 11:12:31
Elgar and Bridge/Schwabe: Cello Concertos review – hugely impressive and refreshingly straightforward
Gabriel Schwabe/ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra/Christopher Ward (Naxos)A performance full of finely realised detail and lacking in bombast ensures these two great and contrasting British cello concertos shine Two great British cello concertos, one extremely well known, the other inexplicably neglected, and both composed in response to the horrors of the first world war are featured here. For Elgar, his 1919 concerto proved to be his last significant work, while Frank Bridge’s “concerto elegiaco”, Oration, completed in 1930, was one of a series of pieces composed in the last two decades of his life – which also included his piano sonata, last two string quartets and the orchestral rhapsody Enter Spring – in which he went far beyond the Edwardian cosiness of his early works into an expressive world clearly linked to European modernism, and to the music of Alban Berg especially. If Elgar’s concerto looks back wistfully to a late-Romantic […]
2019-07-30 20:50:15
VC GIVEAWAY | Win 1 of 5 Signed Violinist Tianwa Yang New ‘Brahms’ CDs [ENTER]
To help celebrate the international release of Chinese violinist Tianwa Yang‘s new album Brahms, The Violin Channel, in conjunction with our good friends at Naxos, is this week giving away 5 fresh-off-the-press personally-autographed CD copies. Recorded with conductor Antoni Wit, cello soloist Gabriel Schwabe and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, each disc features Brahms’ Violin Concerto in D Major […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2019-07-10 16:37:40
OUT NOW | Violinist Tianwa Yang’s New CD: ‘Brahms’ [LISTEN]
Naxos Records has announced the release of Chinese violinist Tianwa Yang‘s new album: Brahms. Recorded with conductor Antoni Wit, cellist Gabriel Schwabe and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the disc features Brahms’ Violin Concerto in D Major – coupled with Brahms’ Double Concerto for Violin & Cello in A Minor. “The Brahms Concerto is one of […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..