English Music Festival unveils programme

English Music Festival unveils programme

Feb 15, 2024 | News

The 17th annual English Music Festival (EMF) returns to Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire from 24 May to 27 May 2024.  This year the festival will celebrate anniversaries of two of Britain’s greatest composers: the centenary of Charles Villiers Stanford and the...
CHROMOSPHERE

CHROMOSPHERE

Feb 14, 2024 | CD reviews

Czech Philharmonic Wind Ensemble Divine Art DDX21117 As a follow up to a previous disc, Twisted Skyscape (DDX2118), the present CD offers five works for woodwind orchestra, all première recordings. The five composers are Keiron Anderson, Judith Bingham, Charlotte...
Windrush commission to be performed

Windrush commission to be performed

Feb 14, 2024 | News

The Dionysus Ensemble has commissioned English composer Ayanna Witter-Johnson to write Windrush Reflections which the group will perform at a concert in March. “Ayanna is drawing on her Caribbean heritage to create something truly unique and special for the ensemble...
RICHARD BLACKFORD: Songs of Nadia Anjuman

RICHARD BLACKFORD: Songs of Nadia Anjuman

Feb 14, 2024 | CD reviews

Britten SinfoniaElizabeth Watts soprano NIMBUS ALLIANCE   NI 6444 This is an extraordinary set of songs by Richard Blackford to poems by Nadia Anjuman (1980-2005). Originally written in Dari, they have been most skilfully translated into English, and the texts...