Feb 25, 2025 | CD reviews
Christine Townsend violin Stephen Robbings piano DIVINE ART ddx 21121 This is a generously filled double CD of music for violin and piano by Robin Stevens. There are works for violin and piano duo, and well as solo violin and solo piano. The musical language...
Feb 25, 2025 | CD reviews
Caritas Chamber Choir Ulysses Arts UA240110 Caritas Chamber Choir is a well-established group, who have made seven recordings including this one. Other examples of their work are a disc of Holst’s choral music and a Christmas album. The present collection is a...
Feb 25, 2025 | CD reviews
BBC Symphony Orchestra BBC Scottish Symphony OrchestraAndrew Davis conductor Heritage HTGCD 135 Back in the 1970s and 80s as I remember, Naresh Sohal (1939-2018) was somewhat beloved of those who programmed ‘Music in Our Time’ on Radio 3. This music, which then seemed...
Feb 25, 2025 | CD reviews
Peter Jacobs piano HERITAGE HTGCD 131 Peter Jacobs has a long history of recording British piano music, and this is his latest anthology (I welcomed the first in 2021) for the Heritage Label. As he says, this is a personal selection, with no particular thread or...
Feb 25, 2025 | CD reviews
Fitzwilliam String QuartetMandy Burvill clarinetJonathan Small oboe DIVINE ART ddx 21105 This disc includes five examples of Ian Stephens’ chamber music. The first three works use existing musical material. The Celtic Elegy is one of a set of Three Miniatures for...
Feb 25, 2025 | CD reviews
Marcus Farnsworth baritoneEric McElroy piano NAXOS 8.574599 Part of Naxos’s laudable English Song Series, this is the successor to the Gurney disc by Susan Bickley and Iain Burnside from 2009. As such, it may be considered well overdue and compels the hope that...
