JANÁČEK The Excursions of Mr Brouček (Kyzlink)

Ales Briscein | Alžběta Poláčková | Doubravka Souckova | Frantisek Zahradnicek | Jaroslav Brezina | Jaroslav Kyzlink | Jiri Bruckler | Jirí Sulzenko | Josef Moravec | Martin Srejma

Surreal? Avant-garde? Or just sloppy? In the booklet notes for this new recording of The Excursions of Mr Brouček, annotator...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2024

Gordon, MZ On Memory

Andrew Zolinsky

Michael Gordon (born 1956) and Michael Zev Gordon (born 1963) have more in common than John and Gerald Barry, but...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 2/2010

Welcome home, Mr Dubourg

If the name Matthew Dubourg (1703-67) rings any bells today it’s probably because there’s a rather good story about the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2019

SULLIVAN Haddon Hall FORD Mr Jericho (Andrews)

Adrian Thompson | Angela Simkin | BBC Concert Orchestra | Ben McAteer | Donald Maxwell | Ed Lyon | Eleanor Dennis | Fiona Kimm | Henry Waddington | John Andrews

Dutton is spoiling us. Not content to give us the first fully professional recording of Sullivan and Grundy’s ‘original light...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2020

Ricky Ian Gordon - Bright-Eyed Joy

(Anonymous) Orchestra | Adam Guettel | Audra McDonald | Chris Pedro Trakas | Darius de Haas | Dawn Upshaw | Eric Stern | Grant Gershon | Judy Blazer | Ricky Ian Gordon

Ricky Ian Gordon is one of the New York­based composers who seem to be creating a new genre‚ halfway between...

Reviewed in issue 9/2001

BLOW An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell

Arcangelo | Jonathan Cohen | Samuel Boden | Thomas Walker

This release joins a surprisingly small company entirely devoted to works by Purcell’s teacher and friend John Blow (excepting the opera...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2017

Gordon Fergus-Thompson plays Scriabin and Balakirev

Gordon Fergus-Thompson

Over the past seven years or so Gordon Fergus-Thompson has regularly broadcast much repertoire of fearsome difficulty on BBC Radio...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 6/1988

Janácek (The) Excursions of Mr Broucek

BBC Singers | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Charles Gibbs | Ivan Kusnjer | Jan Vacik | Jirí Belohlávek | Lenka Smidova | Maria Haan | Martina Bauerová | Peter Straka

Mr Broucek's excursions may have carried him to the moon and the 15th century, but it took him longer to...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/2008

Souvenirs d'Italie: Mr Harrach's Musical Diaries

Maurice Steger

Maurice Steger’s latest album draws on the manuscript library of Count von Harrach, an elderly musical and recorder-minded Austrian diplomat...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2017

Maxwell Davies Mr Emmet Takes a Walk

Adrian Clarke | Etienne Siebens | Jonathan Best | Psappha | Rebecca Caine

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies regards Mr Emmet Takes a Walk (2000) as his music-theatre swansong, and in the 20-minute discussion...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 5/2007