Jun 27, 2024 | CD reviews
BBC Philharmonic OrchestraAlbany Symphony OrchestraGeorge Lloyd conductor Lyrita SRCD 2417 3 As an undergraduate studying music, I remember an essay title which read The symphony is dead. Discuss. Well, if that was a serious viewpoint in the early 1970’s it was...
Jun 27, 2024 | CD reviews
Rhian Lois sopranoSamantha Price mezzo-sopranoAlessandro Fisher tenorMorgan Pearse baritoneBBC National Orchestra & Chorus of WalesAdrian Partington conductor Lyrita SRCD435 Stanford’s major choral works have been lucky on disc recently with the Brabbins/Hyperion...
Jun 27, 2024 | CD reviews
BBC Symphony Orchestra Martyn Brabbins, Andrew Davis conductors NMC D281 Not only is this disc a tribute to Anthony Payne (1936-2021) who died shortly after his wonderful wife Jane Manning, but it can also be considered a memorial to the late Sir Andrew...
Jun 27, 2024 | CD reviews
John Foster Black Dyke Mills BandDavid King conductor Equale Brass. LYRITA SRCD425 The wonderful Lyrita edition of Lloyd’s recorded works continues with this well filled disc of his music for brass. It is not quite all as the Symphony No. 10 is for brass...
Jun 27, 2024 | CD reviews
Zoe Beyers violinEnglish Symphony OrchestraKenneth Woods Conductor NIMBUS ALLIANCE NI6446 Composer Steve Elcock is living proof that we should never give up hope. As he outlines on his website, he wrote music with seemingly no hope of it being performed, but with...
Jun 27, 2024 | CD reviews
Caroline Widmann violin Huw Watkins pianoBBC Symphony Orchestra Jukka-Pekka Saraste conductorBBC National Orchestra of Wales Catherine Larsen-Maguire conductorLondon Sinfonietta Ryan Wigglesworth conductor NMC D277 I am pleased to review this disc of large scale works...
