Concertos, Blackford (composer)
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Special offer. Emily Pailthorpe: Better Angels
Emily Pailthorpe (oboe)
BBC Symohony Orchestra & BBCSO Soloists, Martyn Brabbins
Brabbins nurtures the orchestra’s proliferating counter-melodies, and the recording renders them all clearly, though without ever making the BBC SO sound like the ‘small orchestra’ Strauss specified —
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Special offer. Richard Blackford: Instrumental Works
Maria Gajdosova, David Campbell, Emily Pailthorpe
[the Violin Concerto is] an appealing piece and finely played by Maria Gajdosova; but the Clarinet Quintet is more engrossing in the way that its three movements outline an ultimately tragic... —
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Now Comes Beauty
commissions from The English Music Festival
Rupert Marshall-Luck (violin), Roderick Williams (baritone), David Owen Norris (piano)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Gavin Sutherland, Owain Arwel Hughes
A great deal of it is very enjoyable, and perhaps most encouraging of all is the sense that something genuinely new and fresh – rather than just superficially novel – could emerge from this... —
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Pipings and Bowings
Lyrical English Chamber Music
John Turner (recorder), Richard Howarth (violin) & Peter Lawson (piano)
Manchester Chamber Ensemble
This recital brings together a sequence of 10 brief works by three British composers, in music above all designed to please rather than challenge...Many of [Robin Milford's] works were designed... —
