Series unearths scores from the past

Series unearths scores from the past

May 21, 2024 | News

The English Heritage Music Series, an initiative presented by the University of Minnesota’s Library Publishing Services, now offers free access to musical compositions previously out of reach or long out of print.  More than 160 performance scores for music by...
GODS, GHOSTS AND MONSTERS

GODS, GHOSTS AND MONSTERS

May 20, 2024 | CD reviews

Songs by Collins, Butterworth, Warlock, Holst, Bridge Scott Robert Shaw tenorConceptus DIVINE ART DDX 21133 Australian-born Scott Robert Shaw is a former member of (among many others) the Holst Singers. His debut disc The English Tenor explored early C20th English...
GREG CAFFREY: Environments

GREG CAFFREY: Environments

May 20, 2024 | CD reviews

Ulster OrchestraSinead Hayes ConductorCraig Ogden guitar Daniel Browell piano DIVINE ART DDX 21131 The Ulster composer Greg Caffrey is a new name to me, though I have been aware of the Hard Rain Ensemble that he founded a decade ago. Aingeal is a tribute to a loved...
NEXUS

NEXUS

May 9, 2024 | CD reviews

Twenty compositions by seven contemporary composers Oscar Whight trumpetZeynep Özsuca piano Willowhayne Records  WHR093 It was trumpet-player Oscar Whight who, in 2020 during the pandemic, when musicians were being forced apart from one another, decided to bring...
THE PRE-RAPHAELITE CELLO

THE PRE-RAPHAELITE CELLO

May 9, 2024 | CD reviews

Adrian Bradbury celloAndrew West piano SOMM SOMMCD 0685 It might be thought perverse to choose the shortest piece here as the defining example of the distinguished artistry epitomised within. Grainger’s Variations on Handel’s ‘The Harmonious Blacksmith’, which later...