Jul 24, 2024 | CD reviews
This new feature offers some brief reviews of some interesting new recordings… FINGER PRINTS Paul Guinery piano EM Records EMR CD 088 Paul Guinery, whose voice will be familiar to listeners to R3, is also a virtuoso pianist with an extraordinary library of...
Jul 23, 2024 | CD reviews
Tom Winpenny organ TOCCATA CLASSICS TOCC 0731 This is the second volume of Gerald Hendrie’s organ music played by the indefatigable Tom Winpenny on the organ of St Alban’s Cathedral, where he is Assistant Master of Music. In the disc booklet there is a...
Jul 22, 2024 | CD reviews
Tom Winpenny organ TOCCATA CLASSICS TOCC 0724 John Gardner is one of the many British 20th century composers who have not really received the public attention that they deserve. This is in no way a complaint, but certainly, the last quarter of...
Jul 22, 2024 | Features, Reviews
St Elizabeth’s Church, Ashley, near Altrincham18 May 2024 Thomas Pitfield (1903-99) can best be described as a 20th century Renaissance man. Although primarily known as a composer, he was also a prodigious artist, poet, engraver and cabinet-maker. He taught...
Jul 22, 2024 | CD reviews
Freddy Kempf piano Divine Art DDX21243 Matt Dibble was born and lived in Southeast London. He studied music at the University of York, and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He was a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, arranger and producer,...
Jul 18, 2024 | CD reviews
English Symphony Orchestra Kenneth Woods conductor NIMBUS NI6447 Given its foreshadowing of Job as an elemental attempt to confront the mysteries of human fate, it may be surprising that more composers have not turned to the myth of Gilgamesh. I am only familiar with...
Jul 17, 2024 | CD reviews
Victoria String QuartetJohn Bradbury clarinetRichard Simpson oboe Simon Leach piano ...
