Browse: CD, Antheil (composer)

Hamelin's amazing technique and clarity of sound means that the music sounds as spontaneous as it can, though there's still a lingering doubt that it's all just a bit too knowing and clever. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

the star of the album, Stravinsky apart, is undoubtedly the Pole Szymon Laks, who ended the war conducting the prisoners’ orchestra in Auschwitz...The playing in all these pieces, and in Ibert... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Dupree is an able and idiomatic soloist, and the orchestra supports him with flair, if not always with complete rhythmic precision. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2017, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Fuelled by a trip to Tunis, the two inner movements are imbued with ‘all the strangeness of Africa’ according to Antheil, and Kopatchinskaja is in thrall to their mercurial fantasy. She’s also... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

As with the previous instalments in this ongoing retrospective, the performances are superb and vividly recorded. Again, Storgårds is generally more incisive and emotionally generous than Hugh... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2020 More…

George Antheil is doing well on disc and he is lucky here to have a conductor of the calibre of Hugh Wolff taking up his cause and reviving a Frankfurt connection going back to the premiere of... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Spalding and his Philadelphians are feisty enough in the Ballet, refined and reflective in the other works. This is a great chance to check out one of the least heard but most notorious works... — John Armstrong, bbc.co.uk, 20th November 2002 More…

Some of this is hilarious 1920s music. George Antheil, the self-styled 'bad boy of music'… is in fine kleptomaniac form at a time when he idolised Stravinsky and plagiarised compulsively.... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2006 More…