Reviews
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Product: Music review: Little Suite (Trevor Duncan arr. Phil Lawrence)
January 12, 2025
Trevor Duncan's perfect example of light music craftsmanship recalls an age and style of composition that deserves to be brought back into the concert spotlight.
Product: CD review: Resurget Cineribus
January 4, 2025
Five Lakes Silver build on contesting success with a release of bold confidence under MD, Christopher Ward.
Product: LP review: Concerto
January 2, 2025
John Foster Black Dyke Mills Band
Conductor: Major Peter Parkes
Soloists: Robert Childs, Norman Law, Philip Shaw, Sandy Smith, Roger Webster
Chandos Recordings: BBRD 1037
Product: CD review: Joyfully!
December 11, 2024
The ever inventive Duo GIOVIVO duo of Fabian Bloch and Muriel Zeiter bring a very particular inventiveness to their advent calendar of festive carols and tunes.
Product: CD review: Elysian Fields
December 10, 2024
Black Dyke and Jacob Vilhelm Larson explore the myths and legends of ancient Greece to the majesty of Mahler and nature with music very much of our times.
Product: CD review: Violet Volume 2
December 9, 2024
Brass Band Willebroek presents a potent testament to the enduring excellence of their musical partnership with MD Frans Violet.
Book review: So Written to After-Times
December 7, 2024
A compelling compendium of correspondence reveals a fascinating self-portrait of composer John McCabe.
Product: CD review: John Rutter — Brass at Christmas
December 3, 2024
A festive partnership between Black Dyke Band and Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus endorses the appeal of one the world's leading choral composers.
Product: CD review: Another World: The Music of Dorothy Gates
December 1, 2024
A substantive talent reveals beliefs, reflections and explorations with Brighouse & Rastrick, Isobel Daws, Niall Keatley and Onyx Brass.
Product: CD review: Above and Beyond
November 30, 2024
Black Dyke boosts their Japanese fan base and exports with polished tour release.
Product: CD review: RE:BUILD
November 29, 2024
Slide Action's debut CD is a mischievously inspired delight — drawing you into the heart of its surreal explorations and distortions.
Concert: Black Dyke Band
November 28, 2024
Queensbury band provides the taste of their traditional brass band entertainment to entice the audience in numbers to Reading.
Concert: A Night to Remember: A Festival of Remembrance
November 27, 2024
Respect, celebration and expressive freedom honoured in the heart of the local Derwent Brass community.
Concert: Dances for Brass
November 26, 2024
Royal Welsh College students bring vitality to the distinctive dances interpretations of Arnold, Henze and Gregson in Cardiff.
Product: CD review: Astralis
November 9, 2024
Whitburn explores Philip Wilby's heavens with its own stars on a long overdue release.
Product: CD review: Holst at 150 — A Brass Celebration
November 8, 2024
Martyn Brabbins, Ian Porthouse and Tredegar Band bring a finely executed and thoughtfully conceived celebration of the musical fortunes of the Holst family to life.
Product: CD review: On My Way
November 5, 2024
Mauro Martins looks back to retrace his stop off journey to artistic maturity with his second solo album release.
Concert: 150th Brighouse & Rastrick Massed Bands Concert
November 4, 2024
The West Riding Band joins forces with KNDS Fairey for a reminder of why popular quality still has its place for brass band concert goers.
Concert: Brian Taylor 50 Year Anniversary Concert
October 23, 2024
A memorable evening for a modest man who has stamped his greatness on the banding movement with his playing for the past half century.
Concert: Helen Vollam, Philip Cobb, Elizabeth Burley
October 18, 2024
A recital performance of perfectly balanced contrasts from three musicians in musical synchronisation.
