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…

Walton shows flashes of astonishing genius in this composition of his punchy four-movement Piano Quartet written in 1919 at the tender age of just 16…

Eleanor Hudson is a fine advocate of this little known music, much of which is quite challenging, technically. She has been closely but atmospherically recorded…