Kaikhosru Sorabji’s Letters to Philip Heseltine
Two extraordinary personalities, and one remarkable friendship, are reflected in the unique corpus of letters, available in a complete scholarly edition for the first time.
PARRY, BANTOCK, MAXWELL DAVIES: The English Connection
This beautifully produced SACD unites three disparate English works which are seldom heard in concert, and certainly not on the same programme.
PARRY, ELGAR & JACOB: British Music for Strings 1
This lacklustre trio of prosaic string pieces don’t happily co-exist together, especially under the grandiosely overblown title of this release. An odd mix of works by those well-regarded British composers, Elgar, Parry and Jacob, certainly make uneasy bedfellows…
Heaven Full of Stars: Choral Music
The repertoire of the Vasari Singers under their indefatigable musical director, Jeremy Backhouse, has played a significant role in the commissioning and performance of a considerable quantity of contemporary sacred choral music.
GEORGE DYSON: The Open Window
I have heard it said that Sir George Dyson’s church music is the musical equivalent of the Conservative party at prayer.
It could be thought that some of this piano music, much of it written for young pianists was for nice, suburban middle class children to play on Sunday afternoons.