English Music Festival unveils programme
The 17th annual English Music Festival (EMF) returns to Oxfordshire from 24 May to 27 May 2024.
CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD: Cushendall
This is surely the first time that these song cycles, five of them, have been put together on a CD, and it is a very good idea to share them between two fine singers who have ideal voices for this repertoire…
CHROMOSPHERE
Each of the five composers inhabits a different sound world, so there is a variety of contrasting musical idioms which makes for a satisfying listen, even all in one sitting.
Windrush commission to be performed
The Dionysus Ensemble has commissioned English composer Ayanna Witter-Johnson to write Windrush Reflections which the group will perform at a concert in March…
RICHARD BLACKFORD: Songs of Nadia Anjuman
Richard Blackford has chosen a group of poems which vividly expresses the stark contrasts in Anjuman’s own life. The joy in her own creativity, black despair at the absence of personal freedom, and even the possibility of self-destruction…