Mar 21, 2024 | CD reviews
Retrospect OperaThe Orchestra of Scottish OperaDavid Parry conductor and the spoken role of Sergeant Cox Opera Bohemia Voices chorus RETROSPECT OPERA RO011 Shamus O’Brien, first performed in 1896, was Stanford’s most successful opera. Well-known names of the...
Mar 21, 2024 | CD reviews
Marsyas TrioLotte Betts-Dean mezzo-sopranoJoseph Havlet piano METIER MEX 77102 Michael Finnissy is one of the most articulate and prolific composers of his generation, generally bracketed with other pioneers who have soldiered for decades under the dauntingly...
Mar 21, 2024 | CD reviews
Laura Chislett flutesEdward Cowie piano métier mex 77121 Menurida is the Latin family name of the Australian Lyrebird. From there comes the name of the flute and piano duo bringing together Australian flute virtuoso Laura Chislett and composer Edward Cowie, born...
Mar 20, 2024 | CD reviews
Martin Jones Resonus RES10331 In the book A Pilgrim Soul by Meirion and Susie Harries (Michael Joseph 1989) they write ‘Few people consider Lizzie’s piano works to be amongst her best, she herself felt she did not really understand the instrument’. But Martin...
Mar 20, 2024 | CD reviews
Joseph Houston piano RESONUS RES10322 Composer and composition teacher, Michael Zev Gordon, (Professor of Composition at Birmingham University), has had many commissions over the years from the likes of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, The London Sinfonietta and the...
Mar 15, 2024 | CD reviews
The path above the dunes Gemini with Clara Barbier Serrano soprano Mètier MEX 77112 Music spanning about 46 composing years demonstrating a clarity of utterance and a high integrity is contained on this well-filled disc, beginning with The Same Day Dawns from 1974....
