Oct 28, 2024 | CD reviews
Short StoryA Fist Full of FivesWar Horse Orchestral Suite Five Theatre Miniatures Fenella Humphreys violin BBC PhilharmonicMichael Seal conductor CHANDOS CHAN20349 Adrian Sutton is well known to the theatre going public through his music for National Theatre...
Oct 27, 2024 | CD reviews
Ralph Vaughan Williams and Shakespeare Albion SingersKent SinfoniaJames Ross conductor ALBION ALBCD062 The front cover of the CD shows a portrait of Richard III and with the title Royal Throne of Kings. This looks very much like those CDs of medieval music recorded by...
Oct 25, 2024 | CD reviews
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea William Vann conductor ALBION ALBCD064 I have in front of me not only the...
Oct 25, 2024 | CD reviews
London Chamber Ensemble SOMM 0692 Charles Wood (1866-1926) is now chiefly remembered as a teacher and Church composer. (There is an informative YouTube lecture about him). If the idiom of his String Quartet no 6 (1915-16) is mostly 19th century, then no matter. The...
Oct 25, 2024 | CD reviews
Clare Hammond piano PALADINO MUSIC PMR0137 This release celebrates the artistic collaboration between the performer, Clare Hammond and the composer Kenneth Hesketh. Hammond provides a very full and detailed set of notes on the various pieces included in the album. She...
Sep 26, 2024 | CD reviews
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital ChelseaWilliam Vann director ALBION RECORDS ALBCD 063 From the inexhaustible well of Christmas fare, here is welcome refreshment for the most sated. Although crowned by a fine rendering of Vaughan Williams’ familiar Fantasia on...
