Review: Gabriel Pierné: Ratmuntcho, Cydalise et le Chèvre-pied, Suites (National Orchestra Lille, Darrell Ang)
Excellent playing, conducting and recording will make you fawn over this faun.
Greg Keane has been a Limelight contributor since 2008. He is a copywriter and has also lectured in music appreciation in the adult education sector. He has a prodigious collection of LPs and was previously a producer (aka the Dark Lord of Vinyl) of ABC Classic FM.
Excellent playing, conducting and recording will make you fawn over this faun.
Finnish composers escape from Sibelius' shadow to strut their stuff.
Chiaroscuro triumphant in Beethoven's first steps for string quartet.
Nézet-Séguin and his Philadelphians do this African American trailblazer proud.
Thielemann and the Vienna Phil don't quite manage to scale the heights
Sibling chemistry triumphs over stormy cello masterpieces.
Faust’s Soldier's Tale is a very devil of a listen!
Stephen Hough masterfully harnesses Schumann's "multitudes".
Zimerman and Rattle produce a Beethoven Piano concerto cycle for the ages.
Nino Rota finally sheds his Fellini baggage.
New kids on the block make a debut for the ages.
A pleasant, accomplished and mildly revelatory release.
Love Songs come as balm for a COVID-ravaged world