Reflections on David Lloyd-Jones

Reflections on David Lloyd-Jones

Jun 27, 2022 | Features

Readers will by now be aware that conductor David Lloyd-Jones died on 8 June. Other obituaries have already provided a detailed account of David’s professional career, most adding ‘after a short illness’, but David had been in declining health since before the start...
Chasing Moonbeams: Light Music Classics

Chasing Moonbeams: Light Music Classics

Jun 24, 2022 | CD reviews

Paul Guinery piano EMR CD077 Best known as a Radio 3 presenter Paul Guinery shows us here that he is also an accomplished pianist. Here he is able to negotiate his way around some very tricky piano writing in this selection in the light music genre, a type we hear far...
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Complete Works for Violin and Piano

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Complete Works for Violin and Piano

Jun 24, 2022 | CD reviews

Midori Komachi violinSimon Callaghan piano  Musikaleido MKCD 002  Musikaleido is the personal recording company belonging to virtuoso violinist Midori Komachi. This CD of the Complete Works for Violin and Piano by Ralph Vaughan Williams spans much of his...
On This Shining Night

On This Shining Night

Jun 24, 2022 | CD reviews

Music for Voice and String Quartet Coull String QuartetRoderick Williams baritone and arrangerSophie Bevan sopranoJames Gilchrist tenor SOMM Recordings  SOMMCD 0654 Music for voice and string quartet is quite rare. Perhaps not every string quartet wants to take...
Piano Impressions from the British Isles

Piano Impressions from the British Isles

Jun 23, 2022 | CD reviews

Roel Praas piano SNTCD 1522052 Firstly, a niggle. This is a disc of British music, the title is in English, the works are named in English, but then all the notes are in Dutch and German only.  An odd choice to my mind.  Lennox Berkeley’s Six Preludes from...