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ADDISON; JACOB; RUBBRA British Piano Concertos Vol 2
BBC National Orchestra of Wales | Simon Callaghan | Stephen Bell
It is Gordon Jacob’s use of the orchestra in his Piano Concerto No 2 that rouses the admiration more than...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2023
Clarinet Celebration
As various recent versions have shown, Weber's Grand duo concertant is open to rather more interpretations than its unusual, highly...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/1991
Jacob Chamber Works
Frances Mason | Howard Beach | Judith Fitton | Michael Dussek | Sarah Francis | Tagore String Trio
This is Sarah Francis's second recording of Gordon Jacob's captivating Oboe Quartet, yet fi another in a long line of...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/2007
Hampton Court Palace Chapel Choir sings English music
Gordon Reynolds | Hampton Court Palace Chapel Royal Choir
A record produced by an enthusiast is always welcome; and Gordon Reynolds has devised a particularly varied programme which makes...
Reviewed in issue 5/1986
Copland and Bernstein The Composer as performer
The composer’s own (truncated?) recording of Appalachian Spring (transferred from a set of private acetates) dates from 1944, shortly after...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/1997
La Clarinette Française
La clarinette francaise indeed, where the repertoire is concerned, but not where the style of playing is concerned. The French...
Reviewed in issue 10/1988
Equinox
I first made the acquaintance of Abigail James’s playing on Delphian’s superb disc of Edward McGuire’s chamber music (A/06), and...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 12/2007
R. Strauss Orchestral Works
This music is all obtainable in thoroughly 'authentic' performances in the context of Rudolf Kempe's celebrated EMI set. But many...
Reviewed in issue 3/1994
Still, R Chamber Works and Songs
London-born Robert Still (1910-71) originally studied History and French at Oxford before switching to Music and studying under Gordon Jacob...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/2006
Peacock Pie
Guildhall String Ensemble | Martin Roscoe | Robert Salter
Armstrong Gibbs’s Peacock Pie gives this most attractive collection its title‚ drawn‚ like the composer’s inspiration‚ from Walter de la...
Reviewed in issue 6/2002
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