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Archive RVW recordings to be released on CD
An ‘archive’ recording comprising remastered LP and 78 rpm discs is being launched in early September…
Alexander Goehr dies aged 92
Early yesterday morning Schott UK announced the death of the influential composer Alexander Goehr at the age of 92…
Albion to launch four new albums
Albion is releasing four new albums this Autumn…
Composer Adrian Sutton releases new album
War Horse composer Adrian Sutton, now living with an incurable cancer diagnosis, releases his new album of orchestral works next month…
Errollyn Wallen appointed Master of the King’s Music
Acclaimed composer and singer-songwriter has been appointed Master of the King’s Music by King Charles…
Mad Kings and Magic Squares
Max has said that his first musical memory of attending a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Gondoliers when he was four was the event that put him on the road to becoming a composer…
SPLENDID TEARS: Settings of Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Brian Thornsett is a lyrical and suitably light tenor, ideal in many ways for this repertoire. I am less convinced by his timbre in the highest and loudest passages…
GERARD SCHURMANN: Orchestral Works
Gerard Schurmann was born in Java in January 1924, so in this, his centenary year, Chandos have brought out a disc of four fascinating works…
GEORGE LLOYD: Symphonies 7-12
Lloyd is a natural symphonist in the sense that he can create works, often large in scale, which are full of invention and variety…
THOMAS PITFIELD: His Friends and Contemporaries
The first item (a two-disc set) juxtaposes Pitfield’s works with those of his contemporaries and friends, and is a delight…