Jan 28, 2026 | CD reviews
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea William Vann director Callum Knox organ ...
Jan 26, 2026 | CD reviews
Hallé OrchestraMark Elder conductor Hallé CDHLL7569 The Symphony begins with rippling, airy, woodwind and harp, before earthier movements stir deep down in the strings…we seem not a million miles from Mathias, or Tippett’s Ritual Dances. Tempi increase and brass...
Jan 26, 2026 | CD reviews
BBC Philharmonic OrchestraRumon Gamba conductor CHANDOS CHAN 20351 With such a smorgasbord of preludes, this disc is best sampled sparingly, but everything here is finely played and cleanly recorded. Many of these scores are little-known, making Lewis Foreman’s...
Dec 22, 2025 | CD reviews
Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester PforzheimDouglas Bostock conductor CPO 555 541-2 In his very full notes on the music contained in this recording, Jürgen Schaarwächter makes the point that almost all Haydn’s contemporaries in Britain have largely been forgotten. Haydn...
Dec 22, 2025 | CD reviews
Pegasus Chamber ChoirGabriella Swallow celloGloria Rappo harp Squeaky Kate Music CRCD14 Colin Riley is Reader in Composition at Brunel University. His music draws on a range of elements including new technologies, improvisation, song-writing and large-scale classical...
Dec 22, 2025 | CD reviews
Tom Winpenny organ Willowhayne Records WHR101 (2 CDs) Geoffrey Álvarez was a pupil of Giles Swayne and Paul Patterson at the Royal Academy of Music. He later did postgraduate work at York University with David Blake and Richard Orton, and obtained a D.Phil. His works...
