Dec 24, 2024 | CD reviews
BBC Philharmonic Elena Schwarz, Martyn Brabbins, Andrew Gourlay conductors NMC NMCD261 Tom Coult, born in London in 1988, has had considerable success in a variety of musical genres and is currently composer in association with the BBC Philharmonic. That...
Dec 24, 2024 | CD reviews
Rowan Atkinson narratorChoir of The Queen’s College, OxfordBritten Sinfonia SIGNUM CLASSICS SIGCD917 I imagine that for a lot of our members this issue, with its headline title That Sweet City, will be self-recommending. The fact that it is also an outstanding...
Dec 24, 2024 | CD reviews
Royal Welsh Chamber Players James Gilchrist tenorAlice Neary cello Jâms Coleman piano RESONUS 10351 This is now the second disc to come my way, from the enterprising Resonus label, of chamber music by Pamela Harrison (1915-1990.) The first was RES10313. This time...
Dec 24, 2024 | CD reviews
Hurlstone, Swinstead, Carwithen, Bridge Lionel Handy celloJennifer Walsh piano LYRITA SRCD 441 This is actually the fourth Lyrita disc from these artists and it brings us a sheaf of recorded premières and one ‘near-staple’. Hurlstone’s 1899 Sonata steps out with...
Dec 22, 2024 | CD reviews
Paulina VoicesEm Marshall-Luck reciterBBC Concert OrchestraLeigh O’Hara conductor EM RECORDS EMR CD090 Fide Et Literis (By Faith and Learning) is the motto of St Paul’s Girl’s School in Hammersmith, and this disc explores music Gustav Holst, their famous teacher,...
Dec 22, 2024 | CD reviews
Martin Owen hornBBC PhilharmonicRumon Gamba conductor CHANDOS CHAN 20284 Chandos continue with their support and promotion of this quite unjustifiably neglected composer, with only the last, and fifth, of her symphonies now needing recording. Having enjoyed the...
