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#NowSpinning Leoš Janáček Glagolitic Mass, with Charles Dutoit. I was surprised to find this recording a few months back and have still not heard it. So here we go. I am trying not to have any particular expectations!
November 26, 2025 at 7:28 AM
#NowSpinning Leoš Janáček Glagolitic Mass, with Charles Dutoit. I was surprised to find this recording a few months back and have still not heard it. So here we go. I am trying not to have any particular expectations!
#NowSpinning Rachmaninoff The Bells, in a new recording with Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic. Oh how I love the shifting moods and growing melancholy of this work. The gradual decline into darkness is so, so compelling.
November 25, 2025 at 5:57 AM
#NowSpinning Rachmaninoff The Bells, in a new recording with Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic. Oh how I love the shifting moods and growing melancholy of this work. The gradual decline into darkness is so, so compelling.
#NowSpinning the next disc in Paavo Jarvi’s rather marvellous Erato box. I know not everyone finds something to love in Arvo Pärt’s music, but I do. I love the searching, meditative nature of his writing.
November 23, 2025 at 11:19 AM
#NowSpinning the next disc in Paavo Jarvi’s rather marvellous Erato box. I know not everyone finds something to love in Arvo Pärt’s music, but I do. I love the searching, meditative nature of his writing.
#NowSpinning George Chadwick’s Symphony No.2. This work is new to me. Warm, confident and lyrical as the first words coming to mind here. I like the bright orchestral colouring.
November 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
#NowSpinning George Chadwick’s Symphony No.2. This work is new to me. Warm, confident and lyrical as the first words coming to mind here. I like the bright orchestral colouring.
#NowSpinning Lívia Rév’s Suite Bergamasque. I am immediately struck by the warmth of tone and songful character of the playing.
November 23, 2025 at 10:13 AM
#NowSpinning Lívia Rév’s Suite Bergamasque. I am immediately struck by the warmth of tone and songful character of the playing.
#NowSpinning Salonen and the LA Philharmonic play Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphoses. I think I prefer this work to sound even more unruly than it does here, but it’s nice! A really impressive showcase for a super-sumptuous orchestra.
November 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
#NowSpinning Salonen and the LA Philharmonic play Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphoses. I think I prefer this work to sound even more unruly than it does here, but it’s nice! A really impressive showcase for a super-sumptuous orchestra.
#NowSpinning something I have never heard before. Eva Dahlgren Jag Vill Se Min Älskade Komma Från Det Vilda, as part of the big Salonen box. It’s immediately fascinating music. I know little about it.
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
#NowSpinning something I have never heard before. Eva Dahlgren Jag Vill Se Min Älskade Komma Från Det Vilda, as part of the big Salonen box. It’s immediately fascinating music. I know little about it.
#NowSpinning Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto with Perlman and Mehta. This is an exciting work, but is it a little garish? So much the better if it is! Who ever said everything in music had to be super-refined?
November 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
#NowSpinning Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto with Perlman and Mehta. This is an exciting work, but is it a little garish? So much the better if it is! Who ever said everything in music had to be super-refined?
#NowSpinning on this dark, cold morning. Leif Segerstam’s Helsinki account of Sibelius’s Tapiola. This is a tremendous performance. It’s deeply insightful and chilling to the core.
November 20, 2025 at 5:58 AM
#NowSpinning on this dark, cold morning. Leif Segerstam’s Helsinki account of Sibelius’s Tapiola. This is a tremendous performance. It’s deeply insightful and chilling to the core.
#NowSpinning Pappano’s recently released Vaughan Williams Symphony No.9. This conductor seems to be highly tuned into RVW’s turbulent side! I love it!
November 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
#NowSpinning Pappano’s recently released Vaughan Williams Symphony No.9. This conductor seems to be highly tuned into RVW’s turbulent side! I love it!
#NowSpinning an exceptional, moving little beauty. F.S.Kelly’s Elegy for Strings, In Memoriam Rupert Brooke. This is a heart-rending work. It’s only brief, but in its short span it brings enormous emotional weight and touching sincerity.
November 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
#NowSpinning an exceptional, moving little beauty. F.S.Kelly’s Elegy for Strings, In Memoriam Rupert Brooke. This is a heart-rending work. It’s only brief, but in its short span it brings enormous emotional weight and touching sincerity.
#NowSpinnng Britten’s sparkling Piano Concerto with Leif Ove Andsnes on keys. One of my absolute favourite concertos, clearly inspiring the great LOA to a spectacular performance.
November 18, 2025 at 5:50 AM
#NowSpinnng Britten’s sparkling Piano Concerto with Leif Ove Andsnes on keys. One of my absolute favourite concertos, clearly inspiring the great LOA to a spectacular performance.
#NowSpinning Although not the first recording, this is the first time I’ve heard Gregson’s Tuba Concerto since playing clarinet parts in the wind orchestra version back in the 90s! What a joy to come back to it!
Great fun. Loads of wonderful moments, gloriously done here.
Great fun. Loads of wonderful moments, gloriously done here.
November 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM
#NowSpinning Although not the first recording, this is the first time I’ve heard Gregson’s Tuba Concerto since playing clarinet parts in the wind orchestra version back in the 90s! What a joy to come back to it!
Great fun. Loads of wonderful moments, gloriously done here.
Great fun. Loads of wonderful moments, gloriously done here.
#NowSpinning Bernstein’s Divertimento for Orchestra. I found the West Side Story performance disappointing on this disc. Let’s hope this is better.
November 17, 2025 at 7:06 AM
#NowSpinning Bernstein’s Divertimento for Orchestra. I found the West Side Story performance disappointing on this disc. Let’s hope this is better.
#NowSpinning Bernard Herrmann Film Scores, with Salonen in LA. This is a brilliant disc, including a very special account of the Psycho music. Those tearing, shredding strings…..! To die for.
November 17, 2025 at 5:56 AM
#NowSpinning Bernard Herrmann Film Scores, with Salonen in LA. This is a brilliant disc, including a very special account of the Psycho music. Those tearing, shredding strings…..! To die for.
#NowSpinning Sergei Rachmaninoff plays his own Piano Concertos 1 and 4, with Ormandy in Philadelphia. Such a great privilege to be able to hear the great man in this context.
November 13, 2025 at 5:56 AM
#NowSpinning Sergei Rachmaninoff plays his own Piano Concertos 1 and 4, with Ormandy in Philadelphia. Such a great privilege to be able to hear the great man in this context.
#NowSpinning an absolute treat. Arnold Bax! The Suite from Tamara and Cathleen ni Houlihan, both in excellent orchestrations. The former is exciting and full of very Baxian tunes. The latter is soulful and beautifully atmospheric. And what fine performances
November 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM
#NowSpinning an absolute treat. Arnold Bax! The Suite from Tamara and Cathleen ni Houlihan, both in excellent orchestrations. The former is exciting and full of very Baxian tunes. The latter is soulful and beautifully atmospheric. And what fine performances
#NowSpinning A wondrous Kullervo from Saraste. I have never understood why this isn’t mentioned much, though it may be because it was released as an appendix to Saraste’s second - and much less successful - Symphony cycle on Finlandia. But try it. It’s a great performance.
November 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
#NowSpinning A wondrous Kullervo from Saraste. I have never understood why this isn’t mentioned much, though it may be because it was released as an appendix to Saraste’s second - and much less successful - Symphony cycle on Finlandia. But try it. It’s a great performance.
I’ve been naughty again. I would like to be able to say I am sorry, but I am not able to say that. I am also clearly not able to stop buying box sets. Incapable. Naughty I tell you. Naughty. Naughty. Naughty.
November 8, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I’ve been naughty again. I would like to be able to say I am sorry, but I am not able to say that. I am also clearly not able to stop buying box sets. Incapable. Naughty I tell you. Naughty. Naughty. Naughty.
#NowSpinning I know I bang on about this disc from time to time, but some times we just need to hear something truly beautiful.
November 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
#NowSpinning I know I bang on about this disc from time to time, but some times we just need to hear something truly beautiful.
Two cheeky new arrivals today. And from two wonderful conductors. Much fun to be had with these!
November 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Two cheeky new arrivals today. And from two wonderful conductors. Much fun to be had with these!
#NowSpinning. Aha! Look who popped up today. It’s already appeared online, so I’m going in. I know live performances of the work drew some golden reviews, but I’m going to make up my own mind here.
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 AM
#NowSpinning. Aha! Look who popped up today. It’s already appeared online, so I’m going in. I know live performances of the work drew some golden reviews, but I’m going to make up my own mind here.
#NowSpinning Harl McDonald’s Symphony No.1 ‘The Santa Fé Trail’. Ah some fairly easy listening here, and not in a bad way. Tuneful, pleasant work, this.
November 7, 2025 at 6:02 AM
#NowSpinning Harl McDonald’s Symphony No.1 ‘The Santa Fé Trail’. Ah some fairly easy listening here, and not in a bad way. Tuneful, pleasant work, this.
#NowSpinning Kabalevsky’s The Comedians, with Efrem Kurtz and the Philharmonia. This recording is made in early but beautiful stereo. And such a gloriously colourful performance!
November 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
#NowSpinning Kabalevsky’s The Comedians, with Efrem Kurtz and the Philharmonia. This recording is made in early but beautiful stereo. And such a gloriously colourful performance!
#NowSpinning Sir Thomas Beecham’s Delius Florida Suite. This conductor’s way with Delius is, of course, legendary. The finely-spun magic is evident from the very start of this enchanting performance.
November 6, 2025 at 6:03 AM
#NowSpinning Sir Thomas Beecham’s Delius Florida Suite. This conductor’s way with Delius is, of course, legendary. The finely-spun magic is evident from the very start of this enchanting performance.