Christopher Austin and the Brunel Ensemble devote considerable energy to promote modern and contemporary music; their 1996 performances of works by Robert Saxton, Elisabeth Lutyens, John McCabe, and Malcolm Williamson show the musicians' wide embrace of all styles, techniques, and expressions; and this well-balanced CD is intelligently arranged to ...
This is a sweet, but never insipid disc. While you might suspect the former of a recording entitled The Feminine Flute, you might also fear the latter, but flutist Christine Hankin and pianist Timothy Murray have chosen the repertoire too wisely and played it too well for those fears to be realized. On the one side, there are three perfectly ...
Ever so gradually, the music of British serialist Elisabeth Lutyens is becoming better known, thanks in large part to the periodic release of revelatory recordings on NMC. This body of work is fascinating to explore, not only because of Lutyens' historical position as an innovative (and sometimes controversial) twelve-tone composer among a bevy of ...
Taken one piece at a time, the five works on this disc entitled Box of Delights, a collection of British light music, are utterly charming. More than one at a time, however, and the listener is likely to get the aural equivalent of a toothache. With the masterful but slightly sentimental conducting of Barry Wordsworth and the polished though ...
The lovely, evocative titles of the British song cycles Elisabeth Lutyens' And Suddenly it's Evening and David Bedford's Music for Albion Moonlight create expectations of nocturnal serenity that are contradicted by the pieces themselves, both the texts and the music. Lutyens' texts, by Salvatore Quasimodo, and Bedford's, by Kenneth Patchen, are ...
As bassist Leon Bosch mentions (repeatedly) in his liner notes, the double bass is most assuredly a "Cinderella instrument." Works for the bass are a hard sell, not because they are of inferior quality or because the bass cannot hold its own as a solo instrument, but because these qualities are perceived to be true. On his album The British Double ...
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