Jun 26, 2024 | CD reviews
Frank Bridge: Oration Frances-Hoad: Earth, Sea, Air William Walton: Cello Concerto Laura van der Heijden celloBBC Scottish Symphony OrchestraRyan Wigglesworth conductor Chandos CHSA 5346 Laura van der Heijden came to our attention when she won the BBC Young...
Jun 26, 2024 | CD reviews
Castalian String Quartet, BBC Symphony OrchestraThomas Kemp conductor RESONUS RES10340 Eleanor Alberga was born in 1949 in Kingston, Jamaica. From 1970 she was a scholarship student at the Royal Academy of Music in London, studying piano and singing. She...
Jun 19, 2024 | CD reviews
Sharon Carty mezzo sopranoMorgan Pearse baritoneBBC SingersBBC Concert OrchestraJohn Andrews conductor RESONUS RES10345 CVS of course crops up in the biographies of his many successful pupils who forged newer forms of expression, though with his own basically late...
Jun 19, 2024 | CD reviews
Lumas Winds Champs Hill Records CHRCD170 The five players are recent graduates of the Royal Academy, and the Royal College of Music. They were winners of the 2023 Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition. They are lively group of excellent players who bring much...
Jun 18, 2024 | CD reviews
James Gilchrist tenorAnna Tilbrook Piano CHANDOS 20322 When I opened the packaging for this disc, I suspected that much of music would also be found on one of my favourite discs of English songs, that by Anthony Rolfe-Johnson with Lisa Milne and others, on Naxos...
Jun 18, 2024 | CD reviews
BBC PhilharmonicJohn Wilson conductor CHANDOS 20292 Volume 1 of Coates’ orchestral music was issued in 2019, and now, five years on, we have reached volume 4. As has been the custom, significant works are interleaved with shorter lighter ones, thus providing a...
