Composer Madeleine Dring in the spotlight
The latest issue of the Mozart Edition / EditionUK newsletter featured English composer Madeleine Dring…
GRACE WILLIAMS: Orchestral Works
The sheer brilliance of the recorded sound is extraordinary and from the outset, the vividness of the orchestra under the ever-excellent John Andrews leaps out of the speakers…
JESSY REASON: Piano and Chamber Music
Jessy Reason was evidently a devoted and gifted writer; yet apart from one song premièred at Wigmore Hall in 1924, no performances outside the family circle have been traced during her lifetime…
NEWS OF GREAT JOY: Christmas from St John’s College, Oxford
The choir of St John’s College, Oxford and their director David Bannister have combined to produce a sequence of Christmas music which judiciously blends well-known carols such as Gustav Holst’s ‘In the bleak midwinter’ with more unusual repertory…