Jun 15, 2021 | CD reviews
Elan Quintet NAXOS 8.574187 This disc is another stimulating exploration of the early 19th century chamber music repertoire. Georges Onslow, despite his aristocratic English lineage, demonstrates a highly professional command of the classical chamber...
Jun 15, 2021 | CD reviews
Arta Arnicane piano TOCCATA CLASSICS TOCC 0559 This is an extraordinary disc of music by an extraordinary personality. Douglas Munn (1929-2008) was a distinguished mathematician, famous in his field, successively professor at Stirling and Glasgow Universities,...
May 20, 2021 | CD reviews
Eblana String Trio Willowhayne WHR067 I was told, as a young composer, that the writing of string trios was a challenge, and that was why fewer had been written than string quartets, and why some composers, often well-known ones, never tackled the form. Before I...
May 19, 2021 | CD reviews
Michael Chance, Tim Mead, Lawrence Zazzo counter-tenorsRuairi Bowen, James Gilchrist, Andrew Staples tenorsMark Stone baritoneGerald Finley, Ashley Riches bass-baritonesSimon Lepper piano HYPERION KGS0052-D This recital has been devised to showcase 10 alumni (nine...
May 19, 2021 | CD reviews
A 25 disc celebration of the richness and diversity of British Song Various Artists NAXOS 8.502507 (25 Discs) In The Story of Naxos (Piatkus 2012), the music journalist Nicholas Soames says that the ambition of the company’s founder, Klaus Heymann, was to record the...
May 19, 2021 | CD reviews
Granville Bantock & Christopher Wilson Southwest German Chamber OrchestraDouglas Bostock conductor CPO 555 382-2 The short-lived Christopher Wilson was a very active (mostly theatre) composer of the early 20th century. A (carefully chosen?) photo suggests an...
