Champs Hill Records
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Special offer. Elgar in Sussex
Felicity Lott (soprano) & Joseph Middleton (piano)
Schubert Ensemble, Gould Piano Trio
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Special offer. Ksenija Sidorova: Fairy Tales
Ksenija Sidorova (accordion)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Clark Rundell
[Sidorova] plays magnificently here —
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Interpreters might be tempted to decorate the music with ‘expressive’ deformations, but happily not here, where rhythms are taut (note the smart double-dotting in the second movement of the... —
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Special offer. Cheryl Frances-Hoad: Magic Lantern Tales
Nicky Spence (tenor), Sholto Kynoch (piano), Collin Shay, Sinead O'Kelley, Verity Wingate, Anna Menzies, Beth Higham-Edwards, Philip Smith, Anna Huntley, Alisdair Hogath, Mark Stone (baritone), Sophie Daneman (soprano), Alistair Hogarth, Edward Nieland, Natalie Raybould, George Jackson
The album title is taken from the opening cycle on World War One poems by Ian McMillan, in which the composer follows a well-trodden English path, but with her own highly persuasive contemporary... —
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Not since Gordon Fergus-Thompson’s outstanding Scriabin series for ASV has the other-worldly, deeply sensual aspects of this extraordinary music been brought so alluringly to life —
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Special offer. The Saxophone Craze: Homage to Rudy Wiedoeft
Jonathan Radford (saxophone), Ashley Fripp (piano)
I’m not sure I’ve ever appreciated how lovely the saxophone can sound until hearing this. Radford shines a light on an early champion of the instrument, Rudy Wiedoeft, in this colourful selection... —
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Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: Complete Songs, Vol. 3
The Other Mendelssohn
Susana Gaspar (soprano), Kitty Whately (mezzo), Manuel Walser (baritone), Gary Griffiths (baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
I particularly appreciate Manuel Walser’s warm, flexible sound, which fuses clarity of text with Mendelssohn’s beautiful musical lines. Susana Gaspar’s rich voice brings grandeur to the repertoire.... —
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In the Quintet the Schubert Ensemble's sculpting of the music pays dividends, fully embracing Franck's darker side. —
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