Mar 14, 2024 | CD reviews
John Andrews conductorBBC Concert Orchestra EMR CD085 Quilter’s setting of The Faithless Shepherdess opens this recital, and (aided by a delicious arrangement c/o anon) proves a real charmer – a period piece in the very best sense. The second track might almost...
Mar 14, 2024 | CD reviews
Simon Callaghan piano LYRITA SRCD 437 Since the days of Percy Grainger, Scott’s piano sonatas have fallen from the repertory, although with four earlier recordings the original version of this 1908 work has at least a fair presence on disc. At over 13 minutes the...
Mar 14, 2024 | CD reviews
Judith Ingolfsson violin/violaVladimir Stoupel piano OEHMS OC1731 These sonatas, and Clarke’s other works for Violin and Viola, have each been recorded a few times before by such companies as Naxos and Dutton, but to my knowledge this is the first time the three...
Feb 26, 2024 | CD reviews
Albany Symphony OrchestraBBC Philharmonic OrchestraGeorge Lloyd conductor LYRITA SRCD 2417 (four discs) Lyrita has announced that George Lloyd’s complete recordings, formerly available on Albany Records, will be released in a new ‘Signature Edition’ during 2024....
Feb 24, 2024 | CD reviews
ALBION ALBCD 059 If you look at the picture on the booklet cover you are confronted by 18 musicians all looking quite formidable. In back row centre is RVW himself, looking a little demur in such company. The lower row of women has Henry Wood sitting a little...
Feb 24, 2024 | CD reviews
Ronald Woodley clarinetsAndrew West piano METIER MEX77118 This recital for clarinet, basset horn and bass clarinets begins forbiddingly with Elizabeth Lutyens’ apocalyptic The Green Tide. This is Lutyens in High Modernist mode, and initial hearings left me with little...
