Jan 27, 2025 | CD reviews
DEUX-ELLES DXL 1202 (3 Discs) This is a hugely rewarding issue by one of the most innovative and appealing composers of our time, and is highly recommended. Most pieces here (but not all) include guitar, reflecting Goss’s distinguished career as performer and academic...
Jan 27, 2025 | CD reviews
Marcus Farnsworth baritoneAlison Rose sopranoMartin Bussey conductor RESONUS RES10350 Peter of Bologna (c1260-1332), Suffragan Bishop of Corbavia (in Croatia) ministered across Europe and spent the last 15 years of his life in England. He dedicated Pinner Parish...
Jan 23, 2025 | CD reviews
BBC National Orchestra of WalesJaime Martin, Martyn Brabbins conductorsLyrita SRCD440 [2 CDs]Born in 1983 in the Forest of Dean, Gavin Higgins has been composer in association with the BBC NOW. His multi-award-winning works are not part of the avant-garde but grow out...
Dec 24, 2024 | CD reviews
BBC Philharmonic Elena Schwarz, Martyn Brabbins, Andrew Gourlay conductors NMC NMCD261 Tom Coult, born in London in 1988, has had considerable success in a variety of musical genres and is currently composer in association with the BBC Philharmonic. That...
Dec 24, 2024 | CD reviews
Rowan Atkinson narratorChoir of The Queen’s College, OxfordBritten Sinfonia SIGNUM CLASSICS SIGCD917 I imagine that for a lot of our members this issue, with its headline title That Sweet City, will be self-recommending. The fact that it is also an outstanding...
Dec 24, 2024 | CD reviews
Royal Welsh Chamber Players James Gilchrist tenorAlice Neary cello Jâms Coleman piano RESONUS 10351 This is now the second disc to come my way, from the enterprising Resonus label, of chamber music by Pamela Harrison (1915-1990.) The first was RES10313. This time...
Dec 24, 2024 | CD reviews
Hurlstone, Swinstead, Carwithen, Bridge Lionel Handy celloJennifer Walsh piano LYRITA SRCD 441 This is actually the fourth Lyrita disc from these artists and it brings us a sheaf of recorded premières and one ‘near-staple’. Hurlstone’s 1899 Sonata steps out with...