Feb 26, 2024 | CD reviews
Albany Symphony OrchestraBBC Philharmonic OrchestraGeorge Lloyd conductor LYRITA SRCD 2417 (four discs) Lyrita has announced that George Lloyd’s complete recordings, formerly available on Albany Records, will be released in a new ‘Signature Edition’ during 2024....
Feb 24, 2024 | CD reviews
ALBION ALBCD 059 If you look at the picture on the booklet cover you are confronted by 18 musicians all looking quite formidable. In back row centre is RVW himself, looking a little demur in such company. The lower row of women has Henry Wood sitting a little...
Feb 24, 2024 | CD reviews
Ronald Woodley clarinetsAndrew West piano METIER MEX77118 This recital for clarinet, basset horn and bass clarinets begins forbiddingly with Elizabeth Lutyens’ apocalyptic The Green Tide. This is Lutyens in High Modernist mode, and initial hearings left me with little...
