ENTENTE MUSICALE: Music for Violin and Piano
This carefully designed and interesting programme reflects the cultural warmth which developed in Edwardian times between France and England…
DICKY BIRD HOP: Light Music Classics
This disc is a collection of 22 tracks of the sort of easy-listening music much in vogue in the first half or so of last century.
PETER DICKINSON: Chamber and Instrumental Music
Though the music in this disc stretches from Metamorphosis in 1955 to the 2018 revision of Tranquillo, both for solo violin, its focus is rather more on the earlier part of Peter Dickinson’s compositional life.
COOKE: Chamber Music
These are all outstanding first ever recordings of stunningly well-crafted chamber works. Many have been broadcast before but the Pleyel Ensemble are to be congratulated for being first to give them a more permanent afterlife
Obituary: conductor Kenneth Alwyn
Kenneth Alwyn, who died on December 10th at the age of 95, was one of the busiest British conductors.