CD, Antheil (composer)

Storgårds treats this music with painstaking care, restoring deliberate ‘wrong notes’ expunged by earlier conductors in the Fourth, respecting all Antheil’s nuances of tempo variations, and... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2017, 4 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…

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... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 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…

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…