COMPOSERS: Børresen
LABELS: Dacapo
WORKS: At Uranienborg – Tycho Brahe’s Dream; Prelude to The Royal Guest; Romance, Op. 4
PERFORMER: Henrik Brendstrup (cello); Aalborg SO/Owain Arwel Hughes
CATALOGUE NO: 8.224105
Elgar, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Strausses of both persuasions, all raise their heads in this pleasant if nondescript late romantic music. Brendstrup delivers the Romance, little more than a salon piece, with charm, but the orchestral playing sometimes becomes scrappy. Martin Cotton
Børresen: At Uranienborg - Tycho Brahe's Dream; Prelude to The Royal Guest; Romance, Op. 4
Elgar, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Strausses of both persuasions, all raise their heads in this pleasant if nondescript late romantic music. Brendstrup delivers the Romance, little more than a salon piece, with charm, but the orchestral playing sometimes becomes scrappy. Martin Cotton
Our rating
2
Published: January 20, 2012 at 3:18 pm