Jan 18, 2024 | CD reviews
Piano Sonatas nos. 1 and 3 – Piano Sonata no. 2 (II Adagio) – Five Preludes – Autumn George Rowley piano NAXOS 8.574479 Gurney’s piano music has been slow to emerge on CD. Alan Gravill’s 1990 disc for Gamut (his only commercial issue before his untimely death)...
Jan 17, 2024 | CD reviews
Trevor Alexander baritone Peter Crockford piano Divine art ddx 21114 Let us start with the positives. This is a generous recital of 21 songs composed by English composers, largely in the first half of the 20th century, and includes some outstanding examples like...
Jan 17, 2024 | CD reviews
Lesley-Jane Rogers sopranoJohn Turner recorder Prima Facie PFCD202 Lightly scored for mainly solos and duets, this disc is perfect for a quiet evening in front of a log fire when peace prevails and the listening required is not too demanding. Ronald Stevenson’s music...
Dec 27, 2023 | CD reviews
The Royal Air Force Salon Orchestra RAFMRL023 The training for RAF musicians is clearly wide, varied and of a very high standard. Not to be outdone by their wind band colleagues the three violins, viola, cello, bass and piano who together make up the RAF Salon...
Dec 26, 2023 | CD reviews
The Band of The RAF College MPR007 There have been so many developments in the writing of music for wind band that it is good to be reminded of just how good the traditional wind band idiom is. This welcome disc does just that. It is dedicated to the work of the...
