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MACMILLAN; MAXWELL DAVIES Piano Trios
After their splendid Mendelssohn recording (11/14), the Gould Trio turn to a very different programme. The MacMillan works are strongly...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 05/2015
Music for the Queen of Heaven
Marian Consort | Rory McCleery
The Marian Consort made its debut recording for the Delphian label in 2011 with an acclaimed programme of ‘Music of...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 12/2017
WATKINS Flute Concerto. Violin Concerto. Symphony
Adam Walker | Alina Ibragimova | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Hallé Orchestra
If music is, indeed, ‘the food of love’, then Huw Watkins’s Flute Concerto (2013) does have ‘excess of it’! I...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2018
The Song of the Stars
Christopher Finch | Eleanor Turner | Elliot Launn | Wells Cathedral School Choralia
It’s impossible to express too emphatically just how good the girls of the Wells Cathedral School Choralia sound on this...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW2015
PICKARD Binyon Songs. The Phoenix. The Borders of Sleep
Eve Daniell | Roderick Williams | Simon Lepper
Vocal music does not feature prominently in John Pickard’s catalogue. Alongside a few minor choral works and the imposing hour-long...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2018
Knight Errant
The problem in assembling an 80-minute solo trumpet recital cannot be underestimated, but no one could accuse Mark O’Keeffe of...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 8/2007
MacMillan (A) Different World
Caroline Stinson | Gregory Harrington | Simon Mulligan
Although he has achieved considerable success through his large-scale works, James MacMillan often seems more focused when writing on a...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 1/2012
MacMillan Seven Last Words from the Cross; Cantos Sagrados
One of the first successes on RCA's Catalyst label was James MacMillan's percussion concerto for Evelyn Glennie, Veni, veni Emmanuel...
Reviewed in issue 5/1995
Adès; Higdon; MacMillan Orchestral Works
Colin Currie | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Marin Alsop
Not the least notable aspects of this CD are the two works, both dating from 1990, that launched their composers’...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 2/2009
Truro 125
Christopher Gray | Luke Bond | Truro Cathedral Choir
Truro Cathedral was consecrated in 1887, and the 125th anniversary celebrations in 2012 included the commissioning of four new compositions...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 01/2014
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