Resonus Classics
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The Heavens and the Heart
Choral and Orchestral Music by James Francis Brown
Gemma Rosefield, Benjamin Nabarro, Rachel Roberts, Catriona Scott, Choir of Royal Holloway, Orchestra Nova, George Vass
This is likeable stuff. Brown’s largely accessible style is most inventive in the depictions of countryside scenes from his childhood in the Clarinet Concerto, the central work here. —
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The enterprising Berkeley Ensemble has set up ‘The New Cobbett Prize or Chamber Music’, inspired by Walter Wilson Cobbett’s early 20th-century original. Here are the first fruits, in meticulous... —
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Finnish flautist Sami Junnonen and his three string colleagues of Chamber Domaine play them straightforwardly for what they are: clean modern flute technique with not too much vibrato; crisp... —
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Concerto: Works for one & two harpsichords
Guillermo Brachetta (harpsichord) with Menno van Delft (harpsichord)
This disc offers a rewarding conspectus of concerto writing for solo keyboard and keyboards in mid-18th century Germany…attractive, warmly expressive pieces, especially perhaps the Graun and... —
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Swayne’s hour-long stations of the Cross is a monumental, impactful work, Messiaen-esque in style and ambition. Wonderful paying and exceptional recording quality. —
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Con Arte E Maestria: Virtuoso Violin Ornamentation From the Italian Baroque
Virtuoso violin ornamentation from the dawn of the Italian Baroque
Oliver Webber (violin), Steven Devine (harpsichord)
Oliver Webber deserves a knighthood for services to period violin performance…And this new title would be rather fitting: Webber works his bow with sword-like precision and his sound gleams... —
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J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba & Harpsichord
Robert Smith (viola da gamba), Francesco Corti (harpsichord)
Corti is, as ever, entirely charismatic. His playing brims with musical winks and flirtatious filigree. Smith, surprisingly, is at his finest here too: there’s a buoyancy and a liveness to this... —
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Sanctifica Nos: Works for Choir, Organ and Viol Consort by Joanna Marsh
Jim Cooper, Hugh Rowlands, Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, Fretwork, David Skinner, Martin Baker, Andrew Arthur
The soundworlds are eerie and enticing, particularly O magnum mysterium, performed sensitively with Fretwork. —
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