JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Handel Variations Lars Vogt (piano/conductor) / Royal Northern Sinfonia [ Ondine / CD - released 2/May/2020 ] "if you want an excellent performance with vivid, well balanced sound, this one by Vogt will serve you very well." MusicWeb |
EDVARD GRIEG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Grieg: Orchestral Works Halle Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli / Bournemouth Symphony, Paavo Berglund / Royal Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham / Northern Sinfonia, Paul Torteli [ EMI Classics Gemini / CD - released 2/Feb/2005 ] Recorded: Kingsway Hall, London. 1969 & 1970 (Halle) Guildhall, Southampton 1981 (Bournemouth) Abbey Road Studios, London. 1973 & 1955 (Northern Sinfonia & Royal Philharmonic) |
ALAN PAUL / GUY WOOLFENDEN / GEOFFREY BUSH / ALAN RIDOUT / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: British Clarinet Concertos Ian Scott (clarinet) Royal Ballet Sinfonia / Barry Wordsworth [ ASV / CD - released 20/Nov/2003 ] "Ian Scott plays beautifully throughout; and all concerned seem to enjoy themselves enormously. I cannot but recommend this attractive collection of unfamiliar, but rewarding works that all deserve much more than the occasional hearing" (MusicWeb) |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 / Four Ballades Lars Vogt (piano) / Royal Northern Sinfonia [ Ondine / CD - released 1/Feb/2020 ] "A wealth of seldom-heard orchestral detail emerges, with exquisite wind-playing especially prominent. Nothing is extraneous; every gesture seems bent towards maximum expressivity." Gramophone Editors Choice Jan 2020 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos 2 + 4 Lars Vogt (piano/conductor) / Royal Northern Sinfonia [ Ondine / CD - released 1/Jul/2018 ] "The rapport between the soloist and this highly accomplished band of musicians is everything it should be, and more. These are marvellous performances" Gramophone Editor's choice May 2018 |
DAVID LYON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Lyon: Concerto For Horn And Strings - Fairytale Suite Michael Thompson, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, David Lloyd-Jones [ Marco Polo British Light Music / CD - released 1/Jan/1998 ] The English composer David Lyon was a pupil of John Gardner at the Royal Academy of Music in London. His career has involved music for the theatre and an association with the activities of younger people. He writes in an approachable style,... |
JOHN ANSELL / DAVID GOW / PETER HOPE / WILLIAM ALWYN / GARETH GLYN / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: British Light Overtures Vol 2 (Including 'The Moor Of Venice' & 'A Snowdon Overture' Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Gavin Sutherland [ ASV White Line / CD - released 15/Mar/2003 ] "This is the second disc in another excellent series devoted to the rich seam of British Light Overtures, an area in which the composers from this sceptred isle were extremely prolific." ClassicalNet |
ARNOLD / BENNETT / RUTTER / BLEZARD / HURD / FANSHAWE / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: British Light Music Discoveries Vol 4 Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Gavin Sutherland [ ASV White Line / CD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] "There is much to enjoy in this well-filled, spiritedly performed tray of musical canapes." - Gramophone Sept 2001 |
MALCOLM ARNOLD / WILLIAM ALWYN / MALCOLM SARGENT / RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT / GORDON JACOB / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: British Light Music - World Premieres Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Gavin Sutherland [ ASV White Line / CD - released 15/Mar/1999 ] ".... a digestible selection of the unfamiliar and the established. Well up to the now expected standard, it hardly need be said. I enjoyed this disc as much as the others in the series. These are lithe and insightful traversals." MusicWeb (on an... |
GARETH WALTERS / MICHAEL ROBERTS / FREDERICK DELIUS / WILLIAM WALTON / JOHN ADDISON / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: British String Miniatures I (Including 'Two Aquarelles' & 'Fiddler's Green'' Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Gavin Sutherland [ ASV White Line / CD - released 15/Mar/2003 ] "Well up to the now expected standard, it hardly need be said. I enjoyed this disc as much as the others in the series. These are lithe and insightful traversals." MusicWeb |