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JUDITH WEIR & JONATHAN DOVE: Organ Works
This is a most engaging recording, pairing organ music by two composers who, at least superficially, might not appear to have very much in common…
BRIDGE, FRANCES-HOAD & WALTON: Various
Laura van der Heijden came to our attention when she won the BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2012, playing the Walton Cello Concerto…
ELEANOR ALBERGA: Orchestral Works
Thomas Kemp brings his extensive experience of conducting contemporary music to shape these unusually structured works…
The Triumph of Time
Harry Birtwistle was raised in Accrington, Lancashire, and as a young man had taken up the clarinet with the encouragement of his mother…
CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD: Orchestral Songs
CVS of course crops up in the biographies of his many successful pupils who forged newer forms of expression, though with his own basically late 19th century idiom, his music has tended to be overlooked…
THE NAMING OF BIRDS: British Wind Quintets
The title of the CD is taken from Sally Beamish’s work, and her inspiration was the calling of birds, although she was also much attracted by their Latin names…