Philip Sawyers’ Third Symphony of (so far) six symphonies was completed in 2016, and it is a muscular work rooted in tonal language but refreshingly ‘dissonant’ and dramatic…

The composer’s note to this recording of Howard Skempton’s ‘50 Preludes and Fugues for Organ’ begins by expressing the likely reaction of many people when first encountering this project…

My initial impression was of the almost salon-like nature of the arrangement, and the pure beauty of Shaw’s voice…

If the music inhabits a somewhat circumscribed sound and emotional world that puts him in good company with others outside the mainstream…

It was trumpet-player Oscar Whight who, in 2020 during the pandemic, when musicians were being forced apart from one another, decided to bring together seven contemporary composers…