★★★★☆ Brett Weymark’s foam-flecked Vaughan Williams conquers the high seas. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
The Brazilian pianist is a connoisseur's artist if ever there was one.
★★★½☆ A genuine warmth and love of music from first note to last.
Popular violinist Stephen Phillips has been killed in a car crash in New Zealand.
Composer Lyle Chan explains how he won the blessing of the 96-year-old whose first crush was Benjamin Britten. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
While the Australian composer doesn’t identify as Christian, for him, the mass is much more than worn out ritual. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
This box set truly is a must have set for all 20th-century music fans.
From saxophone orchestra to wind symphony, Katia’s latest piece showcases woodwind in a new and innovative way. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
The conductor explains why A Sea Symphony launches his soul on a passage to choral heaven. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
With a world-class orchestra, thermal baths and the aromas of spice and coffee, Budapest is a stimulant for all the senses. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
★★★★☆ Pianist Alexei Volodin gives Brahms’ Second a commanding performance.
The violinist will be honoured as Concertmaster Emeritus by the orchestra he has led for 23 years.
Yehudi Menuhin (1916-1999) was the most widely known violinist of the 20th century. A child prodigy, he recorded the Elgar Concerto at the age of 16 with Elgar conducting. His recording career spanned seven decades. The earliest discs were made for American Columbia in 1928, but from 1929 until 1998 he recorded for EMI. It is from his EMI catalogue that these 80 CDs are drawn (they are available separately, or in one box with a set of DVDs). Amazingly, these are not Menuhin’s complete recordings: his late conducting work and some duplications (such as Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnol) are missing. The landmark recordings are here: the 1932 Elgar; the complete Beethoven Sonatas with the distinguished pianist Louis Kentner; Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn and Bartók concertos under Furtwängler, and earlier sessions with his mentor, the Romanian composer Georges Enescu. The young Yehudi’s sheer panache and extraordinary musical instincts are a revelation: hear him delighting in his skill in the Virtuoso collection, in pieces by Sarasate and Fritz Kreisler recorded in the late ‘30s. In mid-career, Menuhin’s technique faltered; problems with his bowing arm plagued him from then on. You can hear it in his live performance of the Britten… Continue reading Get…
