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Richard Flury: Orchestral Music, Vol. 5
$21.99CDToccata
Jan 23, 2026TOCC0735 -
VIOLIN CAFE
$14.62CDDECCA
Feb 13, 2026DCA239786.2 -
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PHANTOM OF THE OPERA - O.C.R.
$22.58CDTHE OTHER SONGS RECS
Feb 13, 2026TOSG2.2 -
VLADIMIR JUROWSKI CONDUCTS MAHLER SYMPHONY NO. 9
$16.50CDLPO
Feb 27, 2026LPO139.2 -
MOVIE THEMES, MOOD MUSIC & MORE 1952-62
$20.04CDACROBAT
Feb 13, 2026ACBT3577.2 -
CHARPENTIER: TE DEUM
$24.76SACDALIA VOX
Mar 27, 2026AV9966SACD -
MOZART: FLUTE QUARTETS
$19.48CDUNIVERSAL JAPAN
Apr 03, 2026UNIJ3183893.2 -
STEVE REICH: SEXTETS
$18.33SACDCOLIN CURRIE RECORDS
Apr 10, 2026CCUR0009SACD -
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR DVORAK STEWART
$20.17CDCANARY CLASSICS
Mar 27, 2026CAYC27.2 -
RHAPSODY IN BLACK
$20.17CDAPARTE
Apr 17, 2026APTE418.2 -
NEW YORK BLUE
$23.84SACDCHESKY RECORDS
Mar 27, 2026CKY3489SACD
Couperin: Les Nations / Juilliard Baroque
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Review:
All eight players are totally absorbed in the style. Their often dense ornamentation never sounds calculated or contrived; their rhythmic flow in slower movements has a captivating insouciance, relaxed, gently fluid. This is French playing that would be hard to better.
– BBC Music Magazine
Bach: The Imaginary Music Book . Cafe Zimmermann
Goossens: Phantasy Concerto, Symphony No 1 / Hickox
Chandos' Featured Release for February will be the final recording made by Richard Hickox, intended as the first in a cycle devoted to orchestral works by Goossens. Offering the premiere recording of Goossens's Phantasy Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, and the rarely recorded Symphony No. 1, this disc serves as a tribute to Hickox and his remarkable legacy of recordings on Chandos. Though principally remembered as a conductor, during the 1920s the prolific Eugene Goossens was regarded as among the foremost British composers alongside Bax, Bridge and Walton. Sadly, his music has been all but forgotten, for the colourful, expressive nature of his music fell out of fashion in the 1950s and 1960s. A recent reviewer of Goossens's music wrote, 'If you have ever gleaned the idea that Goossens is inclined to grey modernism or to windy rhetoric, prepare to have your preconceptions well and truly shattered'. His music is suggestive of fellow composers of the era, notably Holst and Bliss. Having grown up in Britain, Goossens accepted an invitation to come to the United States as the first chief conductor of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in New York State. He was there for twenty years, before moving to Australia where he served as Chief Conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. His music and character proved a great influence on the Australian classical audience and he is recognised as one of the most important figures in Australian musical life. The rewarding Phantasy Concerto, Op. 60 for Piano and Orchestra was written for the celebrated Spanish pianist José Iturbi who gave its first performance in 1944. 'The work, particularly the slow movement, was influenced by my re-reading at that time of Edgar Allan Poe's The Devil in the Belfry, and might be said to reflect something of the fantastic and sinister character of that story, though in no way being a literal depiction of it', wrote Goossens. The concerto was the outcome of a discussion between Iturbi and the composer over the lack of new piano concertos and especially on a smaller scale. The result is a four-movement piano concerto in compressed sonata form. The soloist plays more of a concertante role than in a display concerto, his part tending towards being integral to the orchestral texture. Goossens used the word 'conversational' to describe this relationship between soloist and orchestra. This premiere recording is coupled with the melodious and imaginative Symphony No. 1. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is regarded as Goossens specialists and here perform with Howard Shelley as the piano soloist.
Richard Flury: Orchestral Music, Vol. 5
BEETHOVEN: SYMPHONY NO. 3 EROICA
VIOLIN CAFE
VIVALDI: THE FOUR SEASONS
Coates: London Calling - Music For Wind Band Vol 1 / Kingston
Hanson: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 7 / Schwarz, Seattle Symphony
This is the fifth volume in Gerard Schwarz’s fervent traversal of the seven Hanson symphonies for Delos. The three pieces are drawn from DE 3160, 3092 and 3130. As with the earlier volumes Schwarz brooks no dilution of the music. Nothing is routine or careless.
The old passionate munitions and the aggressive air-burst energy is still there in the six-movement Sixth Symphony. Hanson was writing way against the prevailing current of the times – it was 1968 – but the fuel still ignites! This work initially took a while to take a hold on me but now its swaying Nordic romance will not let go. The music has exuberance, chattering Sibelian zest, an epic stride and the benefit of a resplendent recording. It was dedicated to Leonard Bernstein and the NYPO. Schwarz takes things at a faster lick than Siegfried Landau and the Music for Westchester Symphony Orchestra version from the early 1970s. Landau was first issued on Turnabout LP TV-S34534, revived on CD on Excelsior and also as part of a VoxBox CDX5092.
Lumen in Christo growls with awe. Somewhere in there we are told that there is material by Handel and Haydn. It is deeply subsumed. The choir sings texts with light as their subject from the Latin Requiem and from The Bible. The music has a symphonic mien so do not expect much in the way of relaxation after the rippling power of the Sixth Symphony.
The Seventh also uses the Seattle Symphony Chorale. It’s a setting for choirs and orchestra of texts by Walt Whitman. Hanson – then within four years of his death - sticks to his last. The style essays no change. Indeed he even incorporates that long-breathed treasure of a melody – the grand theme from The Second Symphony. He first set Whitman’s verse in 1915 and latterly in Drumtaps (1935), Song of Democracy (1957) and The Mystic Trumpeter (1970; rec. Delos DE3160). This is not the work’s first recording. That honour rests with the World Youth Symphony Orchestra Interlochen and the National Music Camp High School Choir who recorded it in August 1977 on Bay Cities BCD 1009. Atmospheric though that original is it cannot hope to compete with Schwarz’s fully professional version.
Let’s keep our fingers crossed for a final Schwarz Naxos disc including the Piano Concerto and The Mystic Trumpeter. In due course I would guess that Naxos will also issue a boxed set as they did for Barber and Schuman.
– Rob Barnett, MusicWeb International
GRIMETHORPE COLLIERY BAND: French Bonbons
Shadowcatcher
The Trio Sonata In 17th-century Italy / London Baroque
Giovanni paolo cima;Francesco Turini; G.B. Buonamente; Dario Cast London Baroque The Trio Sonata in 17th Century Italy.
Complete Symphonies; Wind Concertos
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA - O.C.R.
VLADIMIR JUROWSKI CONDUCTS MAHLER SYMPHONY NO. 9
MOVIE THEMES, MOOD MUSIC & MORE 1952-62
TCHAIKOVSKY: THE SLEEPING BEAUTY; CHILDREN'S ALBUM
BRAHMS: PIANO QUARTETS NOS. 2 & 3
Hommage a Jodie Devos
CHARPENTIER: TE DEUM
MOZART: FLUTE QUARTETS
STEVE REICH: SEXTETS
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR DVORAK STEWART
RHAPSODY IN BLACK
