National Youth Choir album to launch in January

National Youth Choir album to launch in January

Dec 22, 2024 | News

The sixth instalment of the Young Composers series with the National Youth Choir will be released by NMC Recordings on 31 January 2025. The recording features pieces by the four 2024 National Youth Choir Young Composers: Jamie Powe, Crystalla Serghiou, Áine Mallon and...
HOLST: Fide Et Literis

HOLST: Fide Et Literis

Dec 22, 2024 | CD reviews

Paulina VoicesEm Marshall-Luck reciterBBC Concert OrchestraLeigh O’Hara conductor EM RECORDS EMR CD090 Fide Et Literis (By Faith and Learning) is the motto of St Paul’s Girl’s School in Hammersmith, and this disc explores music Gustav Holst, their famous teacher,...
RUTH GIPPS: Orchestral Music Volume 3

RUTH GIPPS: Orchestral Music Volume 3

Dec 22, 2024 | CD reviews

Martin Owen hornBBC PhilharmonicRumon Gamba conductor CHANDOS CHAN 20284 Chandos continue with their support and promotion of this quite unjustifiably neglected composer, with only the last, and fifth, of her symphonies now needing recording. Having enjoyed the...
DISTANT VOICES, NEW WORLDS

DISTANT VOICES, NEW WORLDS

Dec 22, 2024 | CD reviews

Songs, Landscapes and Histories The New Music Players The Orchestra of Sound and Light métier mex 77131 On this single CD, you will find a multicoloured festoon of contemporary composer styles, many of their works recalling English Early Music; in two cases, the...
Composer Robin Field dies at 88

Composer Robin Field dies at 88

Dec 16, 2024 | News

1935 – 2024The English composer Robin Field has died aged 88. He belongs to that fascinating – and still massively underrated – generation of British composers born in the 1920s and 1930s that includes Arthur Butterworth, Doreen Carwithen, John Joubert,...