BRIAN ANDREW INGLIS: To Byzantium and Beyond

BRIAN ANDREW INGLIS: To Byzantium and Beyond

Jun 20, 2025 | CD reviews

Elizabeth Knatt & Rachel Barnes recorders KAIROS 0022034KAI The two electronic pieces on this fascinating disc might be described as mood music of the kind that is regularly encountered on Radio 3’s Night Tracks. I found the shortest, Burmese Memory, to be the...
Panufnik Legacies IV

Panufnik Legacies IV

Jun 20, 2025 | CD reviews

London Symphony OrchestraJack Sheen conductor LSO LIVE 5135 This is the fourth CD resulting from the LSO’s Discovery programme showcasing new composers, guided by Colin Matthews (whose own mastery of orchestration was doubtless most useful). Most of the figures...
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...