NMC’s new releases include striking works by Rands, in celebration of the label’s three decades of championing contemporary music NMC is celebrating its 30th birthday next month. What launched as a ...
Symphony by the Sea brings its third concert, “A Garden of Earthly Delights,” to the First Universalist Church of Salem, Saturday, Jan. 24, 8 p.m. This concert will feature the music of Wagner, ...
Music of profound sorrow and exceptional beauty: Elgar’s Cello Concerto is a phoenix rising from the ashes of a world at war, an elegiac lament for an England lost forever. Much of Edward Elgar’s ...
Oration, 'Concerto elegiaco' Laura van der Heijden, Cello BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Ryan Wigglesworth, Conductor Cello Concerto 'Earth, Sea, Air' Laura van der Heijden, Cello BBC Scottish ...
These two releases illustrate the subtleties of what does and does not constitute an “idiomatic” Elgar performance. Such subtleties – expressed in matters of tempo, phrasing and emotional restraint – ...
Elizabeth Maconchy, isn’t, sadly, a household name in the music world these days, and her 1950 short Nocturne for Orchestra rarely sees platform exposure, which is a pity, as it’s a charming and ...