Dec 22, 2025 | CD reviews
Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester PforzheimDouglas Bostock conductor CPO 555 541-2 In his very full notes on the music contained in this recording, Jürgen Schaarwächter makes the point that almost all Haydn’s contemporaries in Britain have largely been forgotten. Haydn...
Dec 22, 2025 | CD reviews
Pegasus Chamber ChoirGabriella Swallow celloGloria Rappo harp Squeaky Kate Music CRCD14 Colin Riley is Reader in Composition at Brunel University. His music draws on a range of elements including new technologies, improvisation, song-writing and large-scale classical...
Dec 22, 2025 | CD reviews
Tom Winpenny organ Willowhayne Records WHR101 (2 CDs) Geoffrey Álvarez was a pupil of Giles Swayne and Paul Patterson at the Royal Academy of Music. He later did postgraduate work at York University with David Blake and Richard Orton, and obtained a D.Phil. His works...
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...
