Jan 24, 2023 | CD reviews
Petite Suite de ConcertBallade for Violin and PianoSpirituals Clarinet Quintet Virginia Eskin pianoMichael Ludwig violinHarold Wright clarinetHawthorne String Quartet ALTO ALC 1468 The more of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s music that becomes available the more it...
Jan 24, 2023 | CD reviews
Symphony No.4London Symphony Orchestra Sir Colin Davis Symphony No.5 Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Sir Neville Marriner ALTO ALC1470 There could not have been two such different conductors as Sir Colin Davis and Sir Neville Marriner –...
Jan 23, 2023 | CD reviews
Sinfonia of LondonJohn Wilson conductor CHANDOS CHSA 5291 John Wilson is one of the most exciting conductors around, and as usual he is here fully supported by his excellent Sinfonia of London. If your main interest in this disc is the VW and the Elgar, you...
Jan 23, 2023 | CD reviews
Deborah Pritchard The HeartEdwin Roxburgh Sonata for ThreeSimon Rowland-Jones Suite for two violasJohn Alexander a pale blue dot Peter Mallinson & Matthias Wiesner violasEvgenia Startseva piano MERIDIAN CDE 84667 The booklet supplied with this CD begins by...
Jan 18, 2023 | CD reviews
Andrew West / Claire Hammond Fidelio TrioJames Turnbull oboeMadeleine Mitchell violinRoderick Williams baritoneSt Paul’s Sinfonia, Andrew Morley conductor Métier – Divine Art Recordings MSV 28624 It is hard to believe that Robert Saxton (who I still think of as...
Dec 27, 2022 | CD reviews
Tom Winpenny organist of St Albans Cathedral TOCCATA CLASSICS TOCC 659 Sonata No. 1 in G (1971)*; Fantasia (1964); Prelude, Intermezzo and Finale (1962)*; Sarabande (1960-1); Toccata and Aria (1966); Suite in G (1989); Impromptu (1966); Prelude for Tudeley...
