GRAMOPHONE Review: Bennett & Duke Violin Concertos – Chloë Hanslip, Singapore Symphony Orchestra/Litton

The great practitioners of Broadway and Hollywood – composers, arrangers, orchestrators – spawned catalogues of what might be considered more ‘legitimate’ music that the world rarely saw or heard. Broadway’s ‘Music Man’ Meredith Wilson’s symphonies, Hitchcock’s Bernard Herrmann’s operas – and the figures featured here: Robert Russell Bennett whose orchestrations enhanced the tunes of Rodgers, … [Read More]