Christopher Gunning is one of those composers who is quite comfortable in both the cinema and the concert hall. His TV and movie credits include “Agatha Christie’s Poirot” (a PBS mainstay for decades). The three symphonies on this release show another side of this composer. Gunning is skilled at creating movie themes and short music […]
Kenneth Woods
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Hans Gál Cello Music Unabashedly Beautiful
The first part of Hans Gál’s story isn’t unusual. Like many talented Jewish musicians in Austria and Germany, his career was derailed by the rise of Nazism. was one of many talented German and Austrian musicians. Gál fled to England, settling in Edinburgh and becoming a respected teacher. Gál wrote throughout his life in a […]