Worldwide plans to mark 150th birthday

Worldwide plans to mark 150th birthday

2022 will see the music industry celebrate the 150th birthday of British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 – 1958). This will be a commemoration of international significance, with performances, recordings, publications and associated events, and the last...
PUER NATUS EST: Christmas Day from Buckfast Abbey

PUER NATUS EST: Christmas Day from Buckfast Abbey

The Choir of Buckfast AbbeyPhilip Arkwright directorMatthew Searles organ www.adfontes.org If you may have had quite enough of Christmas Carol anthologies on CD, but like at least some seasonal music then this superb issue may be the solution.  In his notes...
ELISABETH LUTYENS: Piano Music Vol 1

ELISABETH LUTYENS: Piano Music Vol 1

Martin Jones piano Resonus 0291 I firmly believe that it is perfectly possible to enjoy and understand the music composed with serial technique alongside what Elisabeth Lutyens infamously called “the cowpat school”. If music is well composed, imaginative and even...
Concert review: 25 Years of Prima Facie

Concert review: 25 Years of Prima Facie

St Paul’s Church, Heaton Moor Saturday 18 September  Victoria String Quartet: Benedict Holland, David Greed, Alistair Venart, Jennifer LangridgeAlessandra Pompili & Simon Passmore pianoJohn Turner recorderGavin Barras/Steve Plews double bass and piano – jazz...
WALTON: Symphony No. 1

WALTON: Symphony No. 1

WALTON: Crown ImperialVAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Suite for four hands Lynn Arnold and Charles Mathews piano duet Albion Records ALBCD047 When I first heard Walton’s Symphony 1 as a 12-year-old I thought it the most cacophonous nonsense.  Happily, over the ensuing decades it...