Dec 22, 2025 | CD reviews
James Gilchrist tenorAlex Jakeman fluteRose McLachlan pianoMurray McLachlan piano DIVINE ART ddx 21138 In my 2025 review of Paul Hindmarsh’s admirable and authoritative book on Heaton (1918–2000), I mentioned the imminent CD of his chamber music. Here it is. A welcome...
Dec 22, 2025 | CD reviews
Samantha Ege piano BBC Philharmonic OrchestraJohn Andrews conductor Resonus RES10374 Avril Coleridge-Taylor (1903 – 1998) has been overshadowed by her father Samuel, but also by her heritage as the daughter of someone regarded as being of mixed descent, from Sierra...
Dec 19, 2025 | CD reviews
Twentieth Century British Piano Music Peter Jacobs piano HERITAGE HTGCD 127 This is just the sort of release that the Heritage label was set up to discover. In his booklet notes Peter Jacobs writes that it is a recording of a recital he gave in 1979 of pieces by...
Dec 19, 2025 | CD reviews
Alda Dizdari violinBBC National Orchestra of WalesAlexander Walker conductor RESONUS RES10370 Perhaps due to his own confessed status as a composer that critics find hard to pigeonhole, Robin Holloway remains a comparatively shadowy figure in contemporary music, and...
Dec 19, 2025 | CD reviews
Forrest Eimold organ DIVINE ART MEX 77208 Hot on the heels of Ian Pace’s collection of Finnissy’s piano music on Divine Art comes this comprehensive survey of all the composer’s works for organ. If his writing for piano might be said to be characterised (in the main)...
Nov 26, 2025 | CD reviews
Malcolm Binns, Simon Callaghan and Hiroaki Takenouchi pianistsNicholas Braithwaite, Martin Yates conductors LYRITA SRCD-2449 William Sterndale Bennett was the most distinguished composer of the early Victorian era in Britain, his only possible rivals being S. S....
