AND THE BLACKBIRD SANG: Choral Music
An invigorating issue of fascinating material, Excalibur Voices are a well-balanced ensemble whose phrasing, if not always the tidiest, is natural and musical…
PIANO QUINTETS: Godfrey, Hodgson, Walthew, McCabe
Percy Godfrey? No, me neither; but this 1900 Piano Quintet is quite the find. The first movement surges with full-bodied invention…
THE BLESSED DAMOZEL: Songs of Arnold Bax
It is tempting to reverse the customary credits to read ‘for piano and baritone’ as Mozart and Beethoven used to do with their violin sonatas, since Paula Fan certainly earns the title of ‘collaborative pianist’ here…
CIPRIANI POTTER: Complete Symphonies Vol. 3
Both British music research and musical life pay surprisingly little attention to 19th-century British music. This has hardly changed since a few epoch-making writings…
Obituary: Raymond Warren
Professor Raymond Warren, who has died aged 96, was part of that Interwar generation of British composers that owed a stylistic debt to Tippett and Britten…