Jun 19, 2024 | CD reviews
Lumas Winds Champs Hill Records CHRCD170 The five players are recent graduates of the Royal Academy, and the Royal College of Music. They were winners of the 2023 Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition. They are lively group of excellent players who bring much...
Jun 18, 2024 | CD reviews
James Gilchrist tenorAnna Tilbrook Piano CHANDOS 20322 When I opened the packaging for this disc, I suspected that much of music would also be found on one of my favourite discs of English songs, that by Anthony Rolfe-Johnson with Lisa Milne and others, on Naxos...
Jun 18, 2024 | CD reviews
BBC PhilharmonicJohn Wilson conductor CHANDOS 20292 Volume 1 of Coates’ orchestral music was issued in 2019, and now, five years on, we have reached volume 4. As has been the custom, significant works are interleaved with shorter lighter ones, thus providing a...
Jun 13, 2024 | CD reviews
Martin Roscoe pianoKathryn Stott pianoBBC Philharmonic OrchestraLondon Symphony OrchestraGeorge Lloyd conductor LYRITA SRCD 2421 3 The piano was not George Lloyd’s instrument and thus he came to writing piano concertos later in his life. The composition of the four...