Browse: CD, Alwyn (composer)

The performers respond to both aspects of [Bowen's] music with muscular virtuosity and affection. Especially in the high tessitura of the slow movement, Tasmin Little’s tonal variety and rhythmic... — BBC Music Magazine More…

I would… strongly recommend this performance of the Lyra Angelica, Lloyd-Jones and harpist Suzanne Willison revealing more dark and ecstatic poetry than in any other performance had led me to... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2005 More…

Why do the seven songs of William Alwyn’s 1978 cycle A Leave-Taking not feature more often in recitals? Tenor James Gilchrist’s intense interpretation makes a compelling case for it. The title... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

A highly enjoyable wander away from the familiar British path, including some rare youthful Vaughan Williams. The playing is suitably characterful throughout. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

It brings to an end a confident but also, at times, suitably sensitive salute to the service in courageous and highly accomplished performances. — MusicWeb International, December 2017 More…

[Bebbington] has a rewarding slant on the eleven waltzes, composed between 1954 and 1955...There’s no other performance [of the Carwithen] with which to compare Bebbington’s but there’s every... — MusicWeb International, 31th January 2014 More…