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Sibelius: A life in 10 masterpieces All products and recordings are chosen independently by our editorial team. This review contains affiliate links and we may receive a commission for purchases made. Please read our affiliates FAQ page to find out more. Sibelius: A life in 10 masterpieces Published: ‘The English like vogues for this and that. Now it’s Sibelius, and when they’re tired of him they’ll boost up Frederick Delius’s remark, made in the early 1930s, turned out to be prophetic. Sibelius’s music was then at the zenith of its fame and popular...

Doing Justice to William Walton An unjustly neglected British composer Outside of Austria and Germany, the historic centers of Western classical music, most countries have a particular composer whose work is generally thought to be especially representative of what used to be called their “national character.” In Italy, it is Verdi; in Russia, Tchaikovsky; in Finland, Sibelius; and in the U.S., Aaron Copland. But for 250 years, England was different. After the death in 1695 of Henry Purcell, no classical composer of major stature emerged until 1899, when Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variati...

Friday, January 29, 2021 This week sees the release of our the Recording of the Month in the February issue of Gramophone – Rachmaninov from The Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, plus much more... Register now to continue reading Thank you for visiting Gramophone and making use of our archive of more than 50,000 expert reviews, features, awards and blog articles. Why not register today and enjoy the following great benefits: Free access to 5 subscriber-only reviews per month Unlimited access to news, features, blogs, awards and artist conten...

10 Classical Concerts to Stream in February A Tyshawn Sorey premiere and lots of Kurt Weill from Berlin are among the highlights. Opera Philadelphia will stream the premiere of Tyshawn Sorey’s “Save the Boys,” a setting of an 1887 poem by the abolitionist and suffragist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.Credit...Jeenah Moon for The New York Times Jan. 28, 2021 As the live performing arts continue to struggle through the coronavirus pandemic, here are 10 highlights from the flood of online music content coming in February. (Times listed are Eastern.) So Percussion ; available indefinitely. Th...

Joshua Kosman January 26, 2021Updated: January 26, 2021, 7:38 pm Edward Elgar’s First Symphony enjoyed widespread acclaim after its 1908 premiere. Photo: Reginald Haines In 1908, the 51-year-old composer Edward Elgar premiered his First Symphony to immediate and widespread acclaim. In a gratifying turn of events for this perennially sensitive and insecure artist, the piece was taken up globally; it received 82 performances within the first year alone, including local premieres in Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Toronto and Sydney. The symphony, in other words, went viral. In to...