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Mad Kings and Magic Squares
Max has said that his first musical memory of attending a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Gondoliers when he was four was the event that put him on the road to becoming a composer…
SPLENDID TEARS: Settings of Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Brian Thornsett is a lyrical and suitably light tenor, ideal in many ways for this repertoire. I am less convinced by his timbre in the highest and loudest passages…
GERARD SCHURMANN: Orchestral Works
Gerard Schurmann was born in Java in January 1924, so in this, his centenary year, Chandos have brought out a disc of four fascinating works…
GEORGE LLOYD: Symphonies 7-12
Lloyd is a natural symphonist in the sense that he can create works, often large in scale, which are full of invention and variety…
THOMAS PITFIELD: His Friends and Contemporaries
The first item (a two-disc set) juxtaposes Pitfield’s works with those of his contemporaries and friends, and is a delight…
GEORGE BENJAMIN: Picture a Day Like This
This is the composer’s fourth collaboration with playwright Martin Crimp, and it is their most compact and, to my mind, most successful piece yet…