English Music Festival unveils programme

English Music Festival unveils programme

The 15th English Music Festival returns to Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire on the 27 – 29 May opening with the BBC Concert Orchestra and Coleridge-Taylor’s Violin Concerto, and including Holst’s The Cloud Messenger; Vaughan Williams’s Willow-Wood sung by Roderick...
Violinist launches RVW150 project

Violinist launches RVW150 project

Dual language recording from violinist Midori Komachi Violinist, writer and composer, Midori Komachi has developed a diverse career in bridging UK and Japanese cultures through music. She is on a mission to bring the music of British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams to...
Obituary: Lyell Cresswell

Obituary: Lyell Cresswell

We regret to announce the death of composer Lyell Cresswell, who was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1944. He moved to Scotland in the 1970s and lived in Edinburgh from 1985. He was versatile and composed music for orchestra, chamber ensembles, choir, voice and...
HORN CONCERTOS

HORN CONCERTOS

Arnold, Schonberger, Gipps Ben Goldscheider hornPhilharmonia OrchestraLee Reynolds conductor Willowhayne Records: WHR068 This new disc by the prodigiously gifted Ben Goldscheider includes two of the great concertos for French Horn.  Arnold’s 2nd was completed in...
Astronomy & Music: Herschel 200

Astronomy & Music: Herschel 200

2022 is the bicentenary year of the death of celebrated astronomer and composer William Herschel. The occasion has been marked by the rediscovery and recording of some previously unknown works. Two trio sonatas were transcribed from Herschel’s manuscript and...