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...
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,...
Aug 27, 2025 | CD reviews
I Musicanti stringsLeon Bosch double bass Peter Donohoe piano SOMM CD 0707 Percy Godfrey? No, me neither; but this 1900 Piano Quintet is quite the find. The first movement surges with full-bodied invention, and if procedures are text-book they are also confident...
Aug 27, 2025 | CD reviews
Jeremy Huw Williams baritonePaula Fan pianoTheodore Buchholz cello EMR CD086 It is tempting to reverse the customary credits to read ‘for piano and baritone’ as Mozart and Beethoven used to do with their violin sonatas, since Paula Fan certainly earns the title of...
Aug 22, 2025 | CD reviews
Mélodie Zhao pianoBBC National Orchestra of WalesHoward Griffiths director CPO 555 637-2 Both British music research and British musical life pay surprisingly little attention to 19th-century British music. This has hardly changed since a few epoch-making writings....
Jul 26, 2025 | CD reviews
Peter Jacobs piano HERITAGE HTGCD 126 Peter Jacobs is the doyen of British pianists, and those who admire the keyboard music of British composers have particular cause to be grateful for his tireless work in making so much neglected repertoire better known. In this...
