Tuesday, 4 October 2016

A new release from Naxos brings The Bach Choir, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and strong line up of soloists under David Hill in a performance that reveals Charles Villiers Stanford’s Stabat Mater to be a work of considerable achievement

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Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) www.thestanfordsociety.org is largely remembered today as professor at the Royal College of Mus...
Monday, 3 October 2016

Fabulous performances of violin concertos form two giants of American music, Roy Harris and John Adams on a new release from Signum Classics featuring Tamsin Waley-Cohen with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Litton

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A new release from Signum Classics www.signumrecords.com   brings together two violin concertos from two great names in American music, R...
Sunday, 2 October 2016

Paul Spicer directs some very fine performances with the Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir on a new disc from Somm, entitled English Visionaries, achieving quite wonderfully affecting results

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The Birmingham Conservatoire is the distinguished centre of professional training of musicians in the English Midlands. It benefits greatly...

A release from Spaceward Records brings some very impressive works by Andrew Keeling that show a great emotional depth

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Andrew Keeling andrew.keeling@btopenworld.com began composing when he was ten years of age but only began formal composition lessons when...
Friday, 30 September 2016

A new release from BIS contains some wonderful chamber works by Finnish conductor, composer and violinist Jaakko Kuusisto, a composer who deserves to have a wide audience

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Finnish conductor, composer and violinist Jaakko Kuusisto (b. 1974)   www.jaakkokuusisto.fi studied the violin with Géza Szilvay and Tuo...
Monday, 26 September 2016

Some very fine performances from La Nuova Musica directed by David Bates on a new release from Harmonia Mundi of François Couperin’s Leçons De Ténèbres and Sébastien de Brossard’s Stabat Mater

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La Nuova Musica http://lanuovamusica.co.uk was founded by its artistic director David Bates www.davidpeterbates.com  in 2007, whilst in ...
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Sunday, 25 September 2016

A very fine season opening Gala concert from the winning team of the English Symphony Orchestra under their Principal Conductor, Kenneth Woods with pianist Clare Hammond

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Mozart’s Overture to Le nozze de Figaro that opened the English Symphony Orchestra’s   www.eso.co.uk season at Hereford’s Shireh...