We have tackled Elgar choral music [https://www.classicalexplorer.com/elgar-partsongs-doubly-from-bavaria/] before on Classical Explorer, plus some orchesttral and vocal music (Sea Pictures and Falstaff [https://www.classicalexplorer.com/placeholder-internationalist-elgar-barenboim-and-garancas-elgar/] ), but not his songs as yet per se. This new album by the phenomenally talented Julia Sitkovetsky and the wonderful

Recorded and filmed in full HD in the Kunstkraftwerk, Leipzig (a graffitied, trendy industrial factory building) accentus and Cartier present this fine set of performances from Korean pianist Sunwook Kim. For once, the booklet notes have a real purpose: Ann-Katrin Zimmermann not only philosophises on the placement of Beethoven in

Vibrantly alive performances here of music by the wonderfully-named Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. Known as a brilliant swordsman and athlete, in addition to his status as violin virtuoso and gifted composer, he was an early exponent of the hybrid symphonie concertante, the most famous examples of which probably come

The Fourth Chamber Symphony might be Weinberg's last completed piece but I am sure it won't be the end of our Weinberg explorations ....a terrific disc

The title "The Visionaries of Piano Music" is the title of this disc; it is also slightly misleading as neither William Byrd (c. 1539/40) nor John Bull (1562/3-1628) actually worte anything for the piano. But playing the m on a modern grand is no sin; and

While one naturally associated the organ with huge swathes of sound and stomach-churning basslines that storm the Heavens, here Anna Lapwood goes out of her way to show the instrument's silvery soft side. Without further ado, let's see an example of that, the "Forlane"

The recent Leeds Piano Competition boasted Imogen Cooper as Chair of teh Jury. Her most recent releae, on Chandos, is a single disc of some 83 minutes (!) that shows her at her absolute best. Cooper has chosen repertoire that has been with her since her student days in Paris and

Vivaldi's sequence of four concertos for violin and orchestra, the so-called "Four Seasons," have over the years acted as a magnet for the great and the good, and many more besides. Christian Li is a mere 13 years old. What were you doing at 13? Like

It was fascinating to see, last Thursday evening (September 9)  the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra in the German Premiere of Rebecca Saunders' piano concerto ... to an utterance at the Phiharmonie in Berlin; the soloist was Nic Hodges. The concert was conducted by Enno Poppe, better known in the UK

Four works of chamber music here,  representing all of Sir William Walton’s chamber music involving both violin and piano, spanning the years 1918 and 1950. Part of a Guildhall School research project entitled ‘Walton: his voice through the violin’, inspired by violinist Matthew Jones’s lifelong love of Walton’