Nimbus
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Wallfisch and York bring their own sense of clarity to the music, with the cellist finding the lyrical impulse and using his strongly projected tone to sustain long lines. —
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Haydn a l’anglaise
Haydn songs as edited by William Shield
Caf€ Mozart: Derek McCulloch (proprietor), Emma Kirkby (soprano), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), Jenny Thomas (flute), Ian Gammie (guitar), Alastair Ross (square piano)
Delightful repertoire by Haydn for the English market in the 1780s, brightly sung with period instruments —
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Saint-Saens, Vol. 4: Duos For Harmonium and Piano
Miloš Milivojević (accordion), Simon Callaghan (piano)
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The Last of the Troubadours
Martin Best (voice, lute, oud, psaltery), Jeremy Barlow (recorders, pipes), David Corkhill (nakers, hammer dulcimer, tabors, drums, bells, timbrel), Alastair McLachlan (rebecs, fidele)
Martin Best Medieval Ensemble
Best's anthology is expertly assembled and skilfully performed. It displays the sardonic humour and ribaldry of troubadour lyrics as well as their elaborately sentimental courtliness. I can... —
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Beauty and warmth of string tone seem to be paramount, and that helps us to buy into the old-fashioned yet utterly sincere Romanticism of Myaskovsky's last quartet. —
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Matthews-Owen has long been noted as a sensitive collaborator in his more usual role as an accompanist. But he also holds dear working with composers and, for the first time on disc, he steps... —
