GETTY Goodbye, Mr Chips

Barbary Coast Orchestra | Bruce Rameker | Dennis Doubin | Kevin Short | Lester Lynch | Melody Moore | Michael Jankosky | Nathan Granner | Samuel Faustine | San Francisco Boys' Chorus

Whenever a venerable literary property is reincarnated into another medium, one must initially ask if, why and how it speaks...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2025

Bricusse Goodbye, Mr Chips - OST

John Towner Williams | MGM Studio Orchestra | Robert Armbruster

Both these titles were produced by MGM as remakes from their classic back catalogue. Bounty (1962) was riddled with strife...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 3/2007

GETTY The Canterville Ghost

Alexandra Hutton | Anooshah Golesorkhi | Denise Wernly | Jean Broekhuizen | Jonathan Michie | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Leipzig Opera Chorus | Matthew Treviño | Matthias Foremny | Rachel Marie Hauge

Despite its conventionally sentimental conclusion, most of Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost is a laugh-out-loud satire on the foibles of an American family...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: AW17

GETTY Beauty Come Dancing

Opera and song are at the heart of Gordon Getty’s work and spring as much from his love for poetry...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2018

GORDON Timber Remixed

Mantra Percussion

‘Timber!’ is what lumberjacks yell to alert colleagues that a tree is falling. But there’s no need to run away...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 03/2017

Getty, G Orchestral Works

Academy of St Martin in the Fields | Neville Marriner

There are a growing number of composers of a new generation who are writing music aimed at the ordinary music...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/2010

An American Song Album (Melody & Bradley Moore)

Bradley Moore | Melody Moore

Melody Moore’s ‘An American Song Album’ feels personal and custom-made for her ample lirico spinto instrument. And that’s always a...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2019

GORDON Clouded Yellow

Kronos Quartet | Young People's Chorus of New York City

Michael Gordon (b1956) has enjoyed a productive relationship with the Kronos Quartet stretching back to the beginning of the century,...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW18

GORDON Mythologies and Mad Songs

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | Dimitri Mestdag | Laurent Ben Slimane | Martyn Brabbins

Richard Strauss once suggested that Elektra should be conducted like Mendelssohn’s ‘fairy music’. And if you’ve ever wondered what such...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2024

GORDON 'The Impermanence of Things'

BBC National Orchestra of Wales | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Carolin Widmann | Catherine Larsen-Maguire | Huw Watkins | Jukka-Pekka Saraste | London Sinfonietta | Ryan Wigglesworth

Now in his early 60s, British composer Michael Zev Gordon shares with his near-contemporaries George Benjamin and Julian Anderson an...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2024