Choir of King’s College to release new Christmas album

Choir of King’s College to release new Christmas album

Aug 28, 2025 | News

Following the success of their 2023 digital EP, Rutter Orchestral Carols, the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, releases a new album for Christmas 2025, featuring a selection of arrangements and original works for choir and orchestra. Under the direction of Daniel...
Bite-Back: selling CDs as recorded music evolves

Bite-Back: selling CDs as recorded music evolves

Aug 28, 2025 | News

Dear Nicholas, I’ve just enjoyed, very much, reading your article on Recorded Music in the latest News.  Being the advanced age I am, I never got beyond CDs, and am still collecting them (cheaply).  The problem of course will come for my Executors: how to...
Concert celebrates Bradford’s forgotten composer

Concert celebrates Bradford’s forgotten composer

Aug 27, 2025 | News

A special concert taking place next month in Bradford which promises to be a treat for music enthusiasts and history buffs alike as it celebrates the music of composer Frederic Cliffe. Frederic Cliffe was born in Low Moor in 1857. In 1889, the premiere of his Symphony...
INCANDESCENT INCANTATIONS: Works for solo violin & reciter

INCANDESCENT INCANTATIONS: Works for solo violin & reciter

Aug 27, 2025 | CD reviews

Rupert Marshall-Luck violinEm Marshall-Luck reciter EMR CD095 Issued on the performers’ own label, with photography, notes and production also done in-house, this is a confident statement of EMR and its aims, although not to be taken all at once.  The shortest...
AND THE BLACKBIRD SANG: Choral Music

AND THE BLACKBIRD SANG: Choral Music

Aug 27, 2025 | CD reviews

Excalibur VoicesAnna Markland pianoDuncan Aspden director EMR CD094 An invigorating issue of fascinating material, Excalibur Voices are a well-balanced ensemble whose phrasing, if not always the tidiest, is natural and musical. They are blessed with good low basses,...