In his introductory note to the first piece on the CD, pianist Duncan Honeybourne writes regarding the music of Cummings-Knight that it is ‘Always steeped in his musical inheritance and the example of composers he loves’.
The mysterious and chilling Peter Grimes haunts us all. Benjamin Britten’s anti-hero has become one of British music’s most complex figures in opera.
This is a disc of English songs with a strong bias towards settings of A.E. Housman.
This is a re-mastered collection of 21 tracks of recordings of church music made in 1992. The issue is offered at ‘super bargain price’.