EM Records continue their outstanding support of tonal British music with this disc of British music for oboe/cor anglais and piano…

By the volcanic end I felt as if I had tottered off an exhilarating roller-coaster of a work, seemingly imagined and written at white heat…

Colloquy, of course, means conversation and Phibbs’s delicately beautiful Serenade is just that, so where one guitar ends another begins…

I was particularly impressed by the way in which Carr brings together the chorus with his four instruments. There are so many moments where you feel he has got everything just right..

For those interested in fresh and imaginative techniques of choral writing, with the voices treated more like sections of orchestral instruments than a choir, this CD is well worth hearing…

In his middle years William Alwyn was moving away from his extensive interests in music for film towards a more symphonic musical language…