Mar 15, 2024 | CD reviews
The path above the dunes Gemini with Clara Barbier Serrano soprano Mètier MEX 77112 Music spanning about 46 composing years demonstrating a clarity of utterance and a high integrity is contained on this well-filled disc, beginning with The Same Day Dawns from 1974....
Mar 14, 2024 | CD reviews
John Andrews conductorBBC Concert Orchestra EMR CD085 Quilter’s setting of The Faithless Shepherdess opens this recital, and (aided by a delicious arrangement c/o anon) proves a real charmer – a period piece in the very best sense. The second track might almost...
Mar 14, 2024 | CD reviews
Simon Callaghan piano LYRITA SRCD 437 Since the days of Percy Grainger, Scott’s piano sonatas have fallen from the repertory, although with four earlier recordings the original version of this 1908 work has at least a fair presence on disc. At over 13 minutes the...
Mar 14, 2024 | CD reviews
Judith Ingolfsson violin/violaVladimir Stoupel piano OEHMS OC1731 These sonatas, and Clarke’s other works for Violin and Viola, have each been recorded a few times before by such companies as Naxos and Dutton, but to my knowledge this is the first time the three...
