Resonus Classics
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There’s a lightness to this performance, but also firm sonority at the outset, with an organ-like quality in the underlying harmonies. Balance and warmth of texture are strengths throughout,... —
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Flute Concertos By Ibert, Jolivet & Rodrigo
Sami Junnonen (flute), Helsinki Chamber Orchestra, James S. Kahane
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Huw Watkins: Works For Strings & Piano Trio
Rachel Roberts, Benjamin Nabarro, Leonore Piano Trio, Orchestra Nova, George Vass
This music may not set out to challenge the boldness and range of Watkins’s major vocal and orchestral scores. Yet there is no doubt that the same discriminating musical mind is at work in all... —
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There is immaculate attention to detail of articulation, as well as a generally warm, silken sound. Overall, the recording offers a welcome insight into Schubert’s musical world in the final... —
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Poulenc: Le Gendarme Incompris & Other Works
Soraya Mafi (soprano), Julien van Mellaerts (baritone), Sam Alexander, Lawrence Zazzo (countertenor), Manchester Camerata, John Andrews
The players of the Manchester Camerata and conductor John Andrews approach each work with vigour and more than a touch of irony. In the more wistful passages they also show that during the années... —
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Special offer. Ned Rorem: Choral Works
Daisy Walford, Toby Hughes, St Martin's Voices, Piatti Quartet, Andrew Earis
it’s an area of Rorem’s output that is more than worth your time. St Martin’s Voices (and the Piatti Quartet in three pieces) more than do j justice to this music, imbued as it is with no small... —
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Christmas from the Chapel Royal
The Choir of HM Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace, Rufus Frowde (organ), Carl Jackson
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[Smith’s] thoughtful, sympathetic performances discern the unique qualities of each [piece]…it is a compelling reading with a firm point of view [and his] strong, clear sound is superbly captured... —
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The flow of the recital is pleasing and logical musically, avoiding the didactic approach where ‘original’ and variations follow each other unrelentingly. —
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Pachelbel’s subtle art is very well served by the organist Matthew Owens, so perhaps the only question mark hanging over this enterprise is whether it is also well served by wall-to-wall recordings...the... —
