Jones, Daniel
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Rumon Gamba and the BBC Philharmonic do bustle very well, and the Chandos microphones prove particularly good at pinpointing details like a tuba's lugubrious waddle. —
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Themes & Variations
Three sets of variations - two previously unrecorded - with contributions from 19 British composers ranging from William Walton to Judith Weir
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jac van Steen
This fascinating disc... offers a snapshot of British musical tastes over the last 50 years —
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Jones is an original voice whose music deserves the attention being belatedly granted it by this series of releases. —
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Special offer. Daniel Jones: Symphonies Nos. 12, 13 & Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life
Maldwyn Davies (tenor), BBC Welsh Chorus and Orchestra, Bryden Thomson, Tecwyn Evans, Charles Groves
Both works make their points concisely yet evocatively, as conducted by Bryden Thomson and Tecwyn Evans. His cantata on texts by George Herbert, though, seems a shadow of more deftly composed... —
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It is hard to overestimate the importance of this release for British and especially Welsh music, and it is one I will return to often. —
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The clear and personable musical voice of Wales’s outstanding symphonist recalls another neglected master, New Zealand’s Douglas Lilbrun. Pleasing performances by the BBC Welsh Symphony. —
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Jones: Complete String Quartets
Galina Solodchin, John Underwood, John Trusler, Jonathan Williams, Jeremy Painter, Stephen Orton
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New Music Collections Vol. 3 - Orchestral
Roy Carter (oboe), Wim Timmermans (horn), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Robin Michael (cello), Hallé Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Asko Ensemble, BBC Symphony Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, BBC Concert Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Nicholas Collon,...
This is a very superior “sampler”...Outstanding, I kept finding, was the first-movement extract from Wood’s Symphony (BBC SO under Andrew Davis): brooding, post-Schoenbergian vehemence with... —
