The sheer brilliance of the recorded sound is extraordinary and from the outset, the vividness of the orchestra under the ever-excellent John Andrews leaps out of the speakers…

Jessy Reason was evidently a devoted and gifted writer; yet apart from one song premièred at Wigmore Hall in 1924, no performances outside the family circle have been traced during her lifetime…

The choir of St John’s College, Oxford and their director David Bannister have combined to produce a sequence of Christmas music which judiciously blends well-known carols such as Gustav Holst’s ‘In the bleak midwinter’ with more unusual repertory…

This disc starts with a beautifully moving work, the Three pieces for Violin and Piano of 1944, completed only weeks before his oh-so-sudden and early death at the age of 44…

For those who associated the composer George Lloyd with his output of symphonies, it will probably be refreshing to hear music that he wrote for his own instrument, the violin…