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Gramophone Editor’s Choice for Piano Trios by Gál and Shostakovich

Gramophone Editor’s Choice for Piano Trios by Gál and Shostakovich

by Kenneth Woods | Sep 16, 2018 | A view from the podium, Bobby and Hans, News and Reviews

  Ken’s most recent recording as a cellist with the Briggs Piano Trio, an Avie Records disc of trios by Hans Gál and Dmitri Shostakovich, has been awarded the coveted Gramophone Magazine Editor’s Choice for October 2018. Here is the review from critic...
Hans Gál on the 30th Anniversary of his Death

Hans Gál on the 30th Anniversary of his Death

by Kenneth Woods | Oct 3, 2017 | Bobby and Hans

It’s exactly 30 years today since the death of Hans Gál. In his early career, he was one of the compositional stars of his generation, his music heard in leading concert halls and opera houses across Europe. First banned by the Nazi’s in 1933, he escaped...
Hans Gal Piano Concerto a 2016 Gramophone Magazine Critic’s Choice

Hans Gal Piano Concerto a 2016 Gramophone Magazine Critic’s Choice

by Kenneth Woods | Dec 2, 2016 | Bobby and Hans, News and Reviews

We’re all very, very pleased and proud to see Sarah Beth Briggs’ wonderful AVIE Records recording of piano concerti by Mozart and Hans Gál get a Gramophone Magazine Critic’s Choice of 2016 from Guy Rickards in the year-end issue of the magazine....
CD Review- Gramophone Magazine on Gál and Mozart Piano Concerti

CD Review- Gramophone Magazine on Gál and Mozart Piano Concerti

by Kenneth Woods | Jun 17, 2016 | Bobby and Hans, News and Reviews

A new review in the July issue of Gramophone Magazine from Guy Rickards for Sarah Beth Briggs stunning new recording of piano concerti by Hans Gál and Mozart with the Royal Northern Sinfonia on AVIE Records Hans Gál- Piano Concerto and Mozart- Piano Concerto no. 22 in...
CD Review- BBC Music Magazine

CD Review- BBC Music Magazine

by Kenneth Woods | Jun 17, 2014 | Bobby and Hans, News and Reviews

A four-star review in the June issue of BBC Music Magazine from critic Erica Jeal. “…weaves together beautifully played solos culminating in a transcendent coda in which this orchestra seems to breathe...
CD Review- Classical Ear/Andrew Achenbach on Bobby and Hans vol. 4

CD Review- Classical Ear/Andrew Achenbach on Bobby and Hans vol. 4

by Kenneth Woods | Jun 12, 2014 | A view from the podium, Bobby and Hans, Headlines, News and Reviews

A new, five-star review from editor-in-chief Andrew Achenbach for Bobby and Hans vol. 4 from the really wonderful classical app “Classical Ear.” Well worth subscribing too! Gál: Symphony No 1 in D major, Op 30; Schumann: Symphony No 1 in B flat major, Op...
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