…in his note on the recording the Director of Music, Benjamin Sheen, makes the point that the college continues ‘provide a platform for emerging artists from within the College community to showcase their work..

This CD is being issued to mark the 125th anniversary of the Bath Abbey Boys Choir. The programme is an enterprising blend of well-known choral items with others which are much less familiar…

Slowly the music of Thomas Pitfield is emerging from obscurity: following occasional recordings there has recently been a critical biography, and a two-CD set of his chamber works from the admirable Heritage label; while a disc of orchestral pieces is imminent from Toccata…

The feast of Corpus Christi was instituted in the reign of Pope Urban IV in 1264, and the liturgy was constructed by no less an authority than St Thomas Aquinas…

This, above all, is a showcase for the Hallé, who play with brilliance and authority in these kaleidoscopic scores. Their titles may suggest that they are all programmatic in a sense..,

By a happy accident just a few days before this CD plopped on my doormat, I had heard an excellent performance of Dring’s Trio for Flute, Oboe and Piano in Hereford. It had been composed in 1968 and consists of three movements. Afterwards I told the performers what a joy it was to hear this work…