Orchid Classics reviews
Charmes (Olena Tokar/Igor Gryshyn)
A Clarinet in America
Mozart: Gran Partita / Mark Simpson: Geysir
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Hymns of Love (Dmytro Popov)
Caravassilis • Corigliano • Siegel - Guitar Works
Love and Death
Flax and Fire – Songs of Devotion
Russian Colours
Piazzolla • Schnittke • Schubert: Rondo for Violin and Strings, etc
Reflections: Works by Falla; Marcello; Maurice et al
Sixteen Contemporary Love Songs: Works by Frances-Hoad, Zev Gordon, Hellawell et al
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos 1-5 (Goodyear)
Grieg: Violin Sonatas (To The Spring)
Schoenberg/Brahms Violin Concertos
Howard Skempton: Piano Music
Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Books I and II
Jack Liebeck rises to the challenge with aplomb in Brahms and Schoenberg’s Violin Concertos
Works by Haydn, Ravel & Stravinsky
The Grand Organ of Temple Church
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos 7, 18 & 32
Joy & Desolation
Andrew Constantine conducts Chadwick's Symphonic Sketches and Elgar's Enigma Variations
George Chadwick, best known as a director of the New England Conservatory, was several years Elgar’s senior, and an enthusiast – with reservations – for his British colleague’s music. If Elgar became the quintessentially English composer, despite being in many ways an outsider to the establishment, Chadwick could lay claim to being soundly American, exploring a budding national style in the shadow of Dvořák’s New World Symphony.
JS Bach: St Matthew Passion
The St Matthew Passion was part of Good Friday Vespers, the biblical narrative and the chorales familiar to the congregation, and in their native language. Jeffrey Skidmore’s Ex Cathedra forces, in this recording released to celebrate the group’s 40th anniversary, reflect Bach’s own practice in many respects – period instruments, soloists picked from the choir, and a fine sense of performance style.