Sep 18, 2021 | CD reviews
ALWYN, BAX, LEWIS, LIPKIN, RAWSTHORNE Aurora TrioEmma Halnan flute Jordan Sian viola Heather Wrighton harp EM Records EMR CD069 Both Bax’s ravishing Elegiac Trio – with its haunting opening viola theme – and Alwyn’s Naiades (alternately rippling and...
Sep 16, 2021 | CD reviews
Duncan Honeybourne Piano EM Records EMR CD070-71 This typically adventurous double-CD (packed with première recordings) opens with a 1938 Sonata from Birmingham’s Christopher Edmunds. Two ardent and tumultuous movements in the Rachmaninoff vein are followed...
Sep 16, 2021 | CD reviews
A Journey through Songs Julia Sitkovetsky sopranoChristopher Glynn piano CHANDOS CHAN 20236 As the overall title of the CD suggests, this journey through the songs of Sir Edward Elgar opens with Sea Pictures, Op 37. In some ways, these five songs are the most...
Sep 15, 2021 | CD reviews
Rachel Talitman harpIsrael Strings Ensemble Doron Salomon conductor Harp and Company CD 5050-46 Writing for the harp is quite an acquired skill, as I have learned from experience, but composers can, with guidance and study, get ‘the knack’ and then all is well. Paul...
