Mar 27, 2021 | CD reviews
Nicola Hands oboe Jonathan Pease piano EM Records EMRCD066 EM Records continue their outstanding support of tonal British music with this disc of British music for oboe/cor anglais and piano. Britain has done very well producing high calibre oboists and there have...
Mar 27, 2021 | CD reviews
LSO: Andrew Davis conductorLPO: Charles Groves conductor LYRITA SRCD.389 The young Andrew Davis was entrusted with Robert Simpson’s new 5th symphony in 1972 – and delivered one of the great premières. The staggering virtuosity of the LSO and the completely...
Mar 27, 2021 | CD reviews
Duo Guitartes EMR CD067 Life in Elizabethan England might have been ‘nasty, brutish and short’. But on hearing the music of Peter Philips, his Pauana dolorosa Tregian from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, John Dowland’s two movements from ‘Lacrimae’ and two pieces by...
Mar 27, 2021 | CD reviews
TrediciAndrew Foan conductor EM RECORDS EMR CD068 The Light of Love by Paul Carr is subtitled A Requiem Mass. He uses the bare skeleton of the full Latin texts along with newly created English verses by Euan Tait (b.1968). The Latin words deliver a sense of...
Mar 27, 2021 | CD reviews
vOx Chamber ChoirDavid Crown conductor NAXOS 8.574186 Alexander Campkin’s five choral works performed by the Oxford-based vOx Chamber Choir under David Crown are pretty much unique, although at first listening, I was reminded of the Kyrie or Lux Aeterna of György...
Mar 27, 2021 | CD reviews
BBC Symphony OrchestraSakari Oramo conductor CHANDOS CHSA 5253 (2) In his middle years William Alwyn (1905-1985) was moving away from his extensive interests in music for film towards a more symphonic musical language. For Alwyn this was a logical step. ‘Film music’,...
