This new disc by the prodigiously gifted Ben Goldscheider includes two of the great concertos for French Horn…

… the work that really struck home to me was The Christmas Truce, King’s setting of the words of a powerful, almost filmic poem, by Carol Ann Duffy…

Six newly-commissioned choral pieces sit alongside six chorales from the Passion. These chorales act as centres of inspiration for our six young composers…

The general tenor throughout most of the disc can be described, oxymoronically perhaps, as ‘light’ music with dissonance…

This fine recording will serve to much enhance the reputation of both Moeran and the Fidelio Trio.  It has already been selected as an ‘Editor’s Choice’ in the March Gramophone…

I learned a lot from this fascinating CD, not just musically but regarding so many extraordinary and exotic birds, most of which I had not heard of before…