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2021-12-10 08:33:58
Christmas disc round-up: from Christmas Matins in Bavaria & Nine Lessons & Carols at King's College, Cambridge to festive brass from Canada & the Wexford Carols
[…] Wilby. A finely sung disc that brings a new flavour to old favourites. Christmas Bells: Organ Music from Belfast Cathedral Matthew Owens (organ) Resonus Classics RES 10293 In the second of the discs from Belfast Cathedral on Resonus, Matthew Owens plays the Harrison & Harrison organ (built in 1907 and rebuilt in 1975) in music by Bach, Guilmant, Daquin, Walther, Flor Peeters, Philip Wilby, Gary Davison, Liszt and Garth Edmundson, plus Owens' own Prelude on 'Yorkshire' and Howard Skempton's Christmas Bells which was written specially for the disc. In the bleak midwinter: Christmas Carols from King's The Choir of King's College, Cambridge Matthew Martin (organ) Daniel Hyde (conductor) King's College, Cambridge KGS0060 If the first service of Nine Lessons and Carols was at Truro Cathedral, the service has become irredeemably associated with King's College, Cambridge. Here Daniel Hyde […]
2021-11-04 05:21:00
Recent Releases, No. 21 (CD Reviews)
[…] streaming-based multi-channel listening experience, this new BIS release would clearly be the way to go, and even for those with two-channel systems, this is a highly recommendable release of some truly remarkable music that belongs in every classical music lover’s collection.Peter Gregson: Patina. Includes Hidden; Patina; Sense; Cluster; Schema; Sequence (Seven); Over; Don’t Wake; Continuum. Peter Gregson, solo cello, piano; Warren Zielinski, Magnus Johnston, Matthew Denton, Richard Blayden, violins; James Boyd, Eoin Schmidt-Martin, Meghan Cassidy, Stephanie Edmundson, Richard Harwood, violas; Reinoud Ford, Ben Chappell, Tim Lowe, cellos; Laurence Ungless, double bass; Anthony Weeden, conductor. Deutsche Grammophon 0029 486 0567.Although I was familiar with compositions by composer and cellist Peter Gregson (b. 1987) from CDs by other musicians, Patina is the first recording I have encountered led by Gregson himself. As you can see from the header, the music is scored for traditional classical instruments, with no synthesizers being employed. That being said, […]
2021-11-04 05:21:00
Recent Releases, No. 21 (CD Reviews)
[…] streaming-based multi-channel listening experience, this new BIS release would clearly be the way to go, and even for those with two-channel systems, this is a highly recommendable release of some truly remarkable music that belongs in every classical music lover’s collection.Peter Gregson: Patina. Includes Hidden; Patina; Sense; Cluster; Schema; Sequence (Seven); Over; Don’t Wake; Continuum. Peter Gregson, solo cello, piano; Warren Zielinski, Magnus Johnston, Matthew Denton, Richard Blayden, violins; James Boyd, Eoin Schmidt-Martin, Meghan Cassidy, Stephanie Edmundson, Richard Harwood, violas; Reinoud Ford, Ben Chappell, Tim Lowe, cellos; Laurence Ungless, double bass; Anthony Weeden, conductor. Deutsche Grammophon 0029 486 0567.Although I was familiar with compositions by composer and cellist Peter Gregson (b. 1987) from CDs by other musicians, Patina is the first recording I have encountered led by Gregson himself. As you can see from the header, the music is scored for traditional classical instruments, with no synthesizers being employed. That being said, […]
2019-08-08 21:50:19
THEATRE: Coram Boy by Helen Edmundson (dir. Adam Penford for Nottingham Playhouse)
Coram Boy, adapted by Helen Edmundson from Jamila Gavin’s prize-winning novel, is a big play.
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