Apr 24, 2024 | Book reviews, Reviews
Eleanor Oldroyd Music Festival ISBN 978-1-3999-7858-3 Having spent many hours waiting at the bus stop outside Holst’s house, and having often spotted Stephen Dodgson at the Music Festival, I long knew of both composers’ links with leafy Barnes. Now, thanks...
Apr 24, 2024 | CD reviews
Piano Music (First Recordings) Osman Tack piano SOMM RECORDINGS SOMMCD 0684 Stephen Dodgson was an accomplished and highly professional composer whose music, for some unaccountable reason, did not attract the attention it deserved. Inevitably, luck played a...
Apr 24, 2024 | CD reviews
James Gilchrist tenorNathan Williamson piano Divine Art dddx 21119 This disc has been a surprising delight. I say ‘surprising’ because although I knew Thomas Pitfield was a composer I had no idea that his songs (and there are over 150) were so interesting,...
Apr 24, 2024 | CD reviews
Zeb Soanes narratorBritten SinfoniaJamie Phillips conductor CHANDOS CHAN 20296 Though I am willing to be corrected, I think this is the first time that the whole of the Hassan score has been recorded, though some excerpts are of course very familiar. The music was...
Apr 24, 2024 | CD reviews
Simon Callaghan piano Hiroaki Takenouchi piano LYRITA SRCD433 The majority of the music on this disc is by Madeline Dring (1923-77), a prodigiously gifted musician who died far too young of a cerebral haemorrhage. Born with perfect pitch and synaesthesia, she...
