EDWARD COWIE: Where Song Was Born

EDWARD COWIE: Where Song Was Born

Mar 16, 2022 | CD reviews

Music inspired by the birds of Australia Sara Minelli fluteRoderick Chadwick piano métier  msv 28620 Reviewing Edward Cowie’s Bird Portraits, I wrote that the music was ‘virtually unique’. Not so now, because with Where Song Was Born, Cowie sets his hand to the...
ARNOLD BAX: From the Hills of Dreams

ARNOLD BAX: From the Hills of Dreams

Feb 23, 2022 | CD reviews

The Forgotten Songs Jeremy Huw Williams BaritonePaula Fan Piano EMR CD073 Bax’s songs rarely show up on disc or in concert. I have a couple of earlier CDs that only infrequently get played– so would these eighteen unrecorded songs lure me back to this part of the...
New release of British horn concertos

New release of British horn concertos

Feb 22, 2022 | News

A new release of horn concertos features works by British composers Malcolm Arnold and Ruth Gipps. It also celebrates the multiple centenaries of Malcolm Arnold, Ruth Gipps and Dennis Brain who was the dedicatee of the Arnold concerto. All three were born in 1921....
Bite-Back: Walton Centenary CD review

Bite-Back: Walton Centenary CD review

Feb 22, 2022 | Inbox

Dear Bite-Back,  Let me make it clear that I am writing in my personal capacity, and not as a spokesperson for SOMM Recordings. Your review of SOMM’s Walton Centenary CD is technically wrong on so many counts.  Of course your opinions are as valid as anyone...
Concert review: William Blezard Centenary Concert

Concert review: William Blezard Centenary Concert

Feb 22, 2022 | Features, Reviews

12 February 2022, St Michael’s Community Centre, Barnes, London SW13 William Blezard was a pianist, composer and musical director to Joyce Grenfell and Marlene Dietrich, and was married to the pioneering female conductor and musicianship teacher Joan Kemp Potter...