IAN KING: Music for Gloucester Cathedral
… the work that really struck home to me was The Christmas Truce, King’s setting of the words of a powerful, almost filmic poem, by Carol Ann Duffy…
… the work that really struck home to me was The Christmas Truce, King’s setting of the words of a powerful, almost filmic poem, by Carol Ann Duffy…
Composer, writer and lecturer, George Odam’s life in music was inspired at an early age…
Six newly-commissioned choral pieces sit alongside six chorales from the Passion. These chorales act as centres of inspiration for our six young composers…
The general tenor throughout most of the disc can be described, oxymoronically perhaps, as ‘light’ music with dissonance…
This fine recording will serve to much enhance the reputation of both Moeran and the Fidelio Trio. It has already been selected as an ‘Editor’s Choice’ in the March Gramophone…