Browse: Jones, Daniel (composer)

The clear and personable musical voice of Wales’s outstanding symphonist recalls another neglected master, New Zealand’s Douglas Lilbrun. Pleasing performances by the BBC Welsh Symphony. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Both works make their points concisely yet evocatively, as conducted by Bryden Thomson and Tecwyn Evans. His cantata on texts by George Herbert, though, seems a shadow of more deftly composed... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The consistently high quality of the performances is striking. — The Guardian, 31st December 2009, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Jones is an original voice whose music deserves the attention being belatedly granted it by this series of releases. — Fanfare, Jan/Feb 2022 More…

It is hard to overestimate the importance of this release for British and especially Welsh music, and it is one I will return to often. — Gramophone Magazine, October 2022 More…

This is a very superior “sampler”...Outstanding, I kept finding, was the first-movement extract from Wood’s Symphony (BBC SO under Andrew Davis): brooding, post-Schoenbergian vehemence with a... — Sunday Times, 30th March 2014 More…

These are strong and important works that repay familiarity. The Performances by the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra and Thomson are finely realised, alive to their rhythmic intricacies and growing... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017 More…