Jun 27, 2024 | CD reviews
Zoe Beyers violinEnglish Symphony OrchestraKenneth Woods Conductor NIMBUS ALLIANCE NI6446 Composer Steve Elcock is living proof that we should never give up hope. As he outlines on his website, he wrote music with seemingly no hope of it being performed, but with...
Jun 27, 2024 | CD reviews
Caroline Widmann violin Huw Watkins pianoBBC Symphony Orchestra Jukka-Pekka Saraste conductorBBC National Orchestra of Wales Catherine Larsen-Maguire conductorLondon Sinfonietta Ryan Wigglesworth conductor NMC D277 I am pleased to review this disc of large scale works...
Jun 26, 2024 | CD reviews
Thomas Corns organ RESONANCE CLASSICS RES10339 This is a most engaging recording, pairing organ music by two composers who, at least superficially, might not appear to have very much in common, other than the fact that their output for the organ in both cases...
Jun 26, 2024 | CD reviews
Frank Bridge: Oration Frances-Hoad: Earth, Sea, Air William Walton: Cello Concerto Laura van der Heijden celloBBC Scottish Symphony OrchestraRyan Wigglesworth conductor Chandos CHSA 5346 Laura van der Heijden came to our attention when she won the BBC Young...
Jun 26, 2024 | CD reviews
Castalian String Quartet, BBC Symphony OrchestraThomas Kemp conductor RESONUS RES10340 Eleanor Alberga was born in 1949 in Kingston, Jamaica. From 1970 she was a scholarship student at the Royal Academy of Music in London, studying piano and singing. She...
Jun 19, 2024 | CD reviews
Sharon Carty mezzo sopranoMorgan Pearse baritoneBBC SingersBBC Concert OrchestraJohn Andrews conductor RESONUS RES10345 CVS of course crops up in the biographies of his many successful pupils who forged newer forms of expression, though with his own basically late...
