Mar 20, 2024 | CD reviews
Martin Jones Resonus RES10331 In the book A Pilgrim Soul by Meirion and Susie Harries (Michael Joseph 1989) they write ‘Few people consider Lizzie’s piano works to be amongst her best, she herself felt she did not really understand the instrument’. But Martin...
Mar 20, 2024 | CD reviews
Joseph Houston piano RESONUS RES10322 Composer and composition teacher, Michael Zev Gordon, (Professor of Composition at Birmingham University), has had many commissions over the years from the likes of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, The London Sinfonietta and the...
Mar 15, 2024 | CD reviews
The path above the dunes Gemini with Clara Barbier Serrano soprano Mètier MEX 77112 Music spanning about 46 composing years demonstrating a clarity of utterance and a high integrity is contained on this well-filled disc, beginning with The Same Day Dawns from 1974....
Mar 14, 2024 | CD reviews
John Andrews conductorBBC Concert Orchestra EMR CD085 Quilter’s setting of The Faithless Shepherdess opens this recital, and (aided by a delicious arrangement c/o anon) proves a real charmer – a period piece in the very best sense. The second track might almost...
Mar 14, 2024 | CD reviews
Simon Callaghan piano LYRITA SRCD 437 Since the days of Percy Grainger, Scott’s piano sonatas have fallen from the repertory, although with four earlier recordings the original version of this 1908 work has at least a fair presence on disc. At over 13 minutes the...
Mar 14, 2024 | CD reviews
Judith Ingolfsson violin/violaVladimir Stoupel piano OEHMS OC1731 These sonatas, and Clarke’s other works for Violin and Viola, have each been recorded a few times before by such companies as Naxos and Dutton, but to my knowledge this is the first time the three...
Feb 26, 2024 | CD reviews
Albany Symphony OrchestraBBC Philharmonic OrchestraGeorge Lloyd conductor LYRITA SRCD 2417 (four discs) Lyrita has announced that George Lloyd’s complete recordings, formerly available on Albany Records, will be released in a new ‘Signature Edition’ during 2024....
Feb 24, 2024 | CD reviews
ALBION ALBCD 059 If you look at the picture on the booklet cover you are confronted by 18 musicians all looking quite formidable. In back row centre is RVW himself, looking a little demur in such company. The lower row of women has Henry Wood sitting a little...
