Resonus Classics
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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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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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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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Special offer. Amy Beach & John Corigliano: Violin Sonatas
Usha Kapoor (violin), Edward Leung (piano)
In very different ways, both works combine taut succinctness with emotional expansiveness and a striking capacity for invention...With full-bodied, Brahmsian writing for both instruments, it... —
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Songs of Love, War and Melancholy: The Operatic Fantasias of Jacques-François Gallay
Lucy Crowe (soprano), Anneke Scott (horn), Steven Devine (harpsichord)
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Experienced partners in exploring 20th-century British repertoire, James Geer and Ronald Woodley specialise in honesty and clarity rather than big personalities and glamour. —
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Despite some slim musical pickings, the performances are irreproachable, with Corns harnessing all the bite of the Marcussen organ at Tonbridge School – not least with the dark registrations... —
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Compared with Monteverdi’s lavish 1610 vespers, Freddi’s resources are modest…, yet the music is remarkably varied – here rapt and contemplative, there extravagantly virtuosic. The six soloists... —
