July release for one act opera

July release for one act opera

Jun 19, 2025 | News

The Parlour, an opera in one act by Grace Williams, will be released on 4 July. The Arts Council’s Welsh Committee approached Grace Williams in 1959 with the offer of a commission to write a one-act opera. The composer turned to the French satirist Guy de Maupassant’s...
Cardiff music cuts reversed

Cardiff music cuts reversed

Jun 19, 2025 | News

Cardiff University has reversed its controversial decision to scrap its music course as part of wide-ranging cuts affecting a range of courses and the potential loss of some 400 jobs.  Wales’s largest university backed down in the face of protests from staff,...
When I was One-and-Twenty: English Song

When I was One-and-Twenty: English Song

Jun 19, 2025 | CD reviews

By C.W. Orr and his contemporaries Ben Alden tenor Andrew Plant piano    CD available at www.ben-alden.com The background to this disc is given in its subtitle ‘A celebration of love and the English Landscape underpinned by the poetry of...
BARRY MILLS: Unfoldings Volume 10

BARRY MILLS: Unfoldings Volume 10

Jun 19, 2025 | CD reviews

Ensemble RezaThe Barefaced Violas CLAUDIO Contemporary  CC6054-2  Unfoldings, the 10th volume of music by Barry Mills (b. 1949) contains five String Quartets, one String Quintet (an extra viola) and one Viola Quartet. The overall title Unfoldings, comes from the final...
HOLST: The Planets and Earth

HOLST: The Planets and Earth

Jun 19, 2025 | CD reviews

Melbourne Symphony OrchestraJaime Martin conductor  MSO 0003 It is now 25 years since Colin Matthews produced his masterful Pluto, the Renewer to append to Holst’s wondrous score. In his second recording of the main work (2006), Simon Rattle also added four more...