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Francisco Garro was a Spaniard who crowned his career at the Royal Chapel in Lisbon when this thriving metropolis boasted a vibrant musical life. Four centuries after his death, Toby Ward and the expert voices and instrumentalists of Ensemble Pro Victoria triumphantly blow the dust from partbooks that survived political upheavals and the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre';\" data-fontfamily=\"Abhaya Libre\"\u003edisaster of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, revealing a masterly oeuvre that in its richness and expressivity quite justifies the honour in which Garro was held in his lifetime.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shogun-tab-content\" id=\"panel-4ef084e4-1ab8-4af3-9ef6-abb1b6b5a388\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"tab-4ef084e4-1ab8-4af3-9ef6-abb1b6b5a388\"\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-9b86c574-e0dd-4332-8ee7-02ee9f8902e7\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003ciframe allow=\"autoplay *; encrypted-media *;\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"450\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:660px;overflow:hidden;background:transparent;\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.music.apple.com\/gb\/album\/francisco-garro-from-fire-earthquake\/1872386718\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shogun-tab-content\" id=\"panel-5b6a119f-2795-48ab-857f-fb44b2469591\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"tab-5b6a119f-2795-48ab-857f-fb44b2469591\"\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-a1f4de24-abd3-4798-93e7-af914d4c3e53\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"slider-s-a1f4de24-abd3-4798-93e7-af914d4c3e53\" class=\"shg-sld\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-content\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-nav-button shg-sld-left \"\u003e \u003csvg width=\"1792\" height=\"1792\" viewbox=\"0 0 1792 1792\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" style=\"fill: rgba(113, 113, 113, 1);\"\u003e \u003cpath d=\"M1203 544q0 13-10 23l-393 393 393 393q10 10 10 23t-10 23l-50 50q-10 10-23 10t-23-10l-466-466q-10-10-10-23t10-23l466-466q10-10 23-10t23 10l50 50q10 10 10 23z\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e \u003c\/svg\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-slides shg-sld-slides-padded\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-item animate__animated shg-sld-active \"\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-309b8e32-2508-4d0a-ab04-1fce577811b7\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content shg-proportional-font-size\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(22px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22.2px; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e'A markedly different approach is presented on 'From Fire \u0026amp; Earthquake' by Ensemble Pro Victoria directed by Toby Ward, performing from editions by Gareth Thomas. Beginning with the same Asperges me, they are joined by cornett, sackbut, harp, lute, bass viol and organ, emphasising that one of those 1609 publications includes a basso seguente (a bass line that 'follows' the lowest voice). They also record in a pleasant but more modest acoustic than Cupertinos, which combines with their overall brisker tempos to give a greater proto-Baroque impression of Garro's music and a bright clarity to each line ...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(22px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22.2px; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe voices of Ensemble Pro Victoria really are world-class and their tuning is radiant\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cimg style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/i.shgcdn.com\/1e23db42-c1fe-4a7c-9887-89fa14fc1bd6\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"42\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-item animate__animated \"\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-993f24d5-fe95-4682-b709-8cdd739d986f\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content shg-proportional-font-size\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e'Garro (1556-1623), a Spaniard working at the Portuguese Chapel Royal, is survived by only 19 works, themselves survivors of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. Four motets and two mass settings, including a Missa Maria Magdalena based on Guerrero’s motet, appear here in (mostly) premiere recordings, justifying the fame Garro enjoyed in his lifetime. It all shines with the ensemble’s hallmarks of vocal integrity as 11 voices, with cornett, sackbut, harp, lute, bass viol, violone, chamber organ, variously combined, work together with persuasive expertise and an in-your-face intensity.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/i.shgcdn.com\/7396d03e-ad2d-4af4-af7a-cdefec01baf9\/\" width=\"117\" height=\"52\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-item animate__animated \"\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-787aac5c-7e99-4750-a1e3-086b9d152812\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content shg-proportional-font-size\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center; font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e'Historical context is key in appreciating the music of Francisco Garro (1556-1623). Active in a Portugal imbalanced by a regnal succession that created the Iberian Union with Spain, while maintaining sufficient independence to allow Lisbon to flourish as a thriving global trader, Garro’s music itself reflects a coexistence of circumspection, self-assurance and indigenous colour. Heartwarming sophistication characterises the Missa Saeculorum and Missa Maria Magdalena, serviced with neatly polished performances by Toby Ward’s Ensemble Pro Victoria, whose lithe vocal\/instrumental mix offers up a clean but luxuriant palette. The music exhibits Garro’s supreme polyphonic mastery, also a simple glowing eloquence responsive to the texts. The accompanying motets - the fluid complexity of Asperges Me, the predominantly sublime Parce Mihi, Domine, the sprightly rejoicing of Vidi Aquam - are supreme examples. The inclusion of older contemporary Francisco Guerrero’s motet Maria Magdalene simply contextualises its relationship to Garro’s eponymous mass'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: center; font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/i.shgcdn.com\/f42ce9bb-b65b-4e0d-ab4a-d35e68c99ab2\/\" width=\"203\" height=\"58\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: center; font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e★★★★★\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-item animate__animated \"\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-721c2b24-3c73-41e7-9bfd-4a0818f1e288\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; font-family: 'Abhaya Libre';\" data-fontweight=\"Normal\" data-fontfamily=\"Abhaya Libre\"\u003e'Gareth Thomas’s fine booklet notes give plenty of historical context and detail on each piece, but the figure of Spanish priest and composer Francisco Guerrero remains somewhat shadowy despite having a whole track to his name and his music being used as a source of parody material for Francisco Garro in a number of the works recorded here. This whole disc is an immersive delight, and you can let the whole thing roll over you in a slowly turning mill of gorgeous counterpoint. Every day is a school day however, and it is fascinating to learn that the entire \u003cem\u003eMissa Saeculorum (primi toni) \u003c\/em\u003eis based on just a few notes in emulation of Guerrero’s \u003cem\u003eMissa Saeculorum Amen\u003c\/em\u003e. Garro’s contrapuntal skill is demonstrated here in all kinds of inversions, embellishments, retrogrades and augmentations, all while maintaining an expressive directness that wears its complexities lightly.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; font-family: 'Abhaya Libre';\" data-fontweight=\"Normal\" data-fontfamily=\"Abhaya Libre\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/i.shgcdn.com\/746fe81d-2ce7-4040-a13b-83319a7c9e0a\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"79\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-nav-button shg-sld-right \"\u003e \u003csvg width=\"1792\" height=\"1792\" viewbox=\"0 0 1792 1792\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" style=\"fill: rgba(113, 113, 113, 1);\"\u003e \u003cpath d=\"M1171 960q0 13-10 23l-466 466q-10 10-23 10t-23-10l-50-50q-10-10-10-23t10-23l393-393-393-393q-10-10-10-23t10-23l50-50q10-10 23-10t23 10l466 466q10 10 10 23z\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e \u003c\/svg\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-dots\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-dot shg-sld-active\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-dot\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-dot\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-dot\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cscript class=\"__SHG_DATA__\" type=\"application\/json\"\u003e\n    {\n      \"__shgSlider\": {\n        \"id\": \"#slider-s-a1f4de24-abd3-4798-93e7-af914d4c3e53\",\n        \"intervalTime\": 5,\n        \"autoplay\": false,\n        \"pauseOnHover\": false,\n        \"transition\": \"animate__noAnimation\",\n        \"interval\": null\n      }\n    }\n  \u003c\/script\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shogun-tab-content\" id=\"panel-6c597a25-c9d3-4c60-ad62-fcadcc31cc9f\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"tab-6c597a25-c9d3-4c60-ad62-fcadcc31cc9f\"\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-8dd136cf-072f-48ed-b646-178a41c7decc\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content\"\u003e\u003cdiv id=\"panel-6c597a25-c9d3-4c60-ad62-fcadcc31cc9f\" class=\"shogun-tab-content shogun-tab-active\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"tab-6c597a25-c9d3-4c60-ad62-fcadcc31cc9f\"\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-3e85f4ee-ae1b-427a-a700-1c6dc8fd6d7e\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content\"\u003e \u003cdiv style=\"line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-size: 20px;\" data-fontfamily=\"Abhaya Libre\"\u003eRelease Date: 3 April 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-size: 20px;\" data-fontfamily=\"Abhaya Libre\"\u003eRecorded on 1,2,4 March 2023 at All Hallows Gospel Oak\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-size: 20px;\" data-fontfamily=\"Abhaya Libre\"\u003eProducer\/Engineer: Paul Baxter\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-size: 20px;\" data-fontfamily=\"Abhaya Libre\"\u003e24-bit digital editing: Jack Davis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-size: 20px;\" data-fontfamily=\"Abhaya Libre\"\u003e24-bit digital mastering: Paul Baxter\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-size: 20px;\" data-fontfamily=\"Abhaya Libre\"\u003eDesign: Drew Padrutt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; 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line-height: 25px;\"\u003eA harpsichord leading a string quartet in a juddering dance; Orpheus seeking passage into the underworld; a fantastical parade of images caricaturing musical Romanticism. The inspirations for these four pieces by Laurence Osborn range from the quirky and ironic to the deadly serious as they engage with and reflect on classical music’s heritage culture, the bold imaginative world of childhood, and the sometimes uncertain boundary between the mechanical and the human.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 25px;\"\u003eRPS Young Artist 2025 award winners GBSR Duo join the string soloists of 12 Ensemble in \u003cem\u003eTOMB!\u003c\/em\u003e, itself the winner of both an Ivor Novello Award and the RPS Award for Chamber-Scale Composition, while Mahan Esfahani is the virtuoso harpsichordist at the centre of \u003cem\u003eCoin Op Automata.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shogun-tab-content\" id=\"panel-4ef084e4-1ab8-4af3-9ef6-abb1b6b5a388\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"tab-4ef084e4-1ab8-4af3-9ef6-abb1b6b5a388\"\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-9ae03ec7-dabe-415f-9cc9-8ac1fbb2e87b\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003ciframe allow=\"autoplay *; encrypted-media *;\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"450\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:660px;overflow:hidden;background:transparent;\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.music.apple.com\/gb\/album\/laurence-osborn-tomb\/1849126607\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shogun-tab-content\" id=\"panel-5b6a119f-2795-48ab-857f-fb44b2469591\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"tab-5b6a119f-2795-48ab-857f-fb44b2469591\"\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-51f36505-4782-442e-98df-98e29dcbb155\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"slider-s-51f36505-4782-442e-98df-98e29dcbb155\" class=\"shg-sld\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-content\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-nav-button shg-sld-left \"\u003e \u003csvg width=\"1792\" height=\"1792\" viewbox=\"0 0 1792 1792\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" style=\"fill: rgba(113, 113, 113, 1);\"\u003e \u003cpath d=\"M1203 544q0 13-10 23l-393 393 393 393q10 10 10 23t-10 23l-50 50q-10 10-23 10t-23-10l-466-466q-10-10-10-23t10-23l466-466q10-10 23-10t23 10l50 50q10 10 10 23z\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e \u003c\/svg\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-slides shg-sld-slides-padded\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-item animate__animated shg-sld-active \"\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-79c1246d-7cef-426f-82f8-fa545fde88ef\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content shg-proportional-font-size\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center; font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e'What these four works have in common is an involvement with the musical past that is often provocative and always engaging.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: center; font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSuch an involvement is duly exemplified by \u003cem\u003eTOMB!\u003c\/em\u003e (2022). This draws on the precedent of the ‘tombeau’ as a commemorative if essentially parasitic procedure (‘of homage becoming necromancy’, as Osborn puts it) for this interplay of historical forms that draws its ensemble into a continuous parade by turns enlightening and self-destructive, while ultimately negatory. A decidedly more affirmative sequence is that of \u003cem\u003eLakes, Mists, Bats, Daggers and Fountains\u003c\/em\u003e (2023). The title taken from a disparaging description of Romanticism in a mid-19th-century Paris newspaper, its four movements encompass the lineage of the string quartet with music that enlivens this medium’s self-referential aspect through the deftest of classicising tendencies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: center; font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIts take on the musical past more playful, \u003cem\u003eMe and 4 Ponys\u003c\/em\u003e (2018) puts piano quartet through its paces in three sections whose focus on the repetitive, the unpredictable and the impulsive – tending towards pathos – feels apposite within the context of music directly influenced by the spontaneity and uninhibitedness of children’s drawings. Qualities pursued more obliquely in \u003cem\u003eCoin Op Automata\u003c\/em\u003e (2021), harpsichord goading string quartet into a rhythmically unyielding dance which makes for productive contrast with the disarming stylistic quodlibet that ensues.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: center; font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThese recordings by 12 Ensemble and associated musicians (Mahan Esfahani galvanising the repertoire for harpsichord as surely as is Sean Shibe that for the guitar) could not be bettered as to precision or commitment. 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data-fontfamily=\"Abhaya Libre\"\u003e'A séance with the dead, a satire on the living — Laurence Osborn's necromantic imagination produces one of the most arresting collections of new music in recent memory.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-size: 20px;\" data-fontfamily=\"Abhaya Libre\"\u003eHere is a disc that will unsettle and beguile in equal measure, and listeners who approach it with an open mind will find themselves richly rewarded.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-size: 20px;\" data-fontfamily=\"Abhaya Libre\"\u003eLaurence Osborn is a composer with a strong and distinctive voice—one that ranges from the arch and ironic to the deadly serious—and this collection of four pieces, engaging with classical music's heritage culture, the bold imaginative world of childhood, and the sometimes vertiginous boundary between the mechanical and the human, 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class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content\"\u003e\u003cp style=\"line-height: 22px; text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 22px; font-family: 'Abhaya Libre';\" data-fontfamily=\"Abhaya Libre\"\u003e‘Such a morning it is,’ wrote Laurie Lee – and this album, taking its title from his poem, is rooted in such particular moments of lived experience, capturing that fleeting, introspective British light. Bass-baritone Tristan Hambleton and pianist Simon Lepper create a landscape of songs by Britten, Sally Beamish, Judith Weir, Huw Watkins, Tarik O’Regan, Errollyn Wallen and others, many in first recordings, drawn together by themes of time, loss and uncertain footing. Recorded with a close, inward focus, voice and piano search not for display but for connection – a meditation on being, and on what it means, in Robert Louis Stevenson’s words, ‘to know not how it is with you’.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shogun-tab-content\" id=\"panel-4ef084e4-1ab8-4af3-9ef6-abb1b6b5a388\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"tab-4ef084e4-1ab8-4af3-9ef6-abb1b6b5a388\"\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-77e27356-ada9-47ff-a4a9-d5721b51a10a\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003ciframe allow=\"autoplay *; encrypted-media *;\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"450\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:660px;overflow:hidden;background:transparent;\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.music.apple.com\/gb\/album\/day-of-these-days-the-british-isles-reflected-in-song\/1870527680\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shogun-tab-content\" id=\"panel-5b6a119f-2795-48ab-857f-fb44b2469591\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"tab-5b6a119f-2795-48ab-857f-fb44b2469591\"\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-ffa426aa-475b-40a8-abb2-37c04d3e3c6e\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"slider-s-ffa426aa-475b-40a8-abb2-37c04d3e3c6e\" class=\"shg-sld\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-content\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-nav-button shg-sld-left \"\u003e \u003csvg width=\"1792\" height=\"1792\" viewbox=\"0 0 1792 1792\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" style=\"fill: rgba(113, 113, 113, 1);\"\u003e \u003cpath d=\"M1203 544q0 13-10 23l-393 393 393 393q10 10 10 23t-10 23l-50 50q-10 10-23 10t-23-10l-466-466q-10-10-10-23t10-23l466-466q10-10 23-10t23 10l50 50q10 10 10 23z\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e \u003c\/svg\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-slides shg-sld-slides-padded\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-item animate__animated shg-sld-active \"\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-cfc47134-8f53-49c7-8f2c-0fea3339f225\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content shg-proportional-font-size\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"article-text\" style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e'Items range from Pur­cell arranged by Thomas Adès (incid­ent­ally ‘Full fathom five’, long attrib­uted to Pur­cell, is now gen­er­ally con­sidered – like the rest of The Tem­pest score – to likely be the work of John Wel­don) through Frank Bridge and Brit­ten, cul­min­at­ing in a var­ied group of today’s cre­at­ives writ­ing in vari­ous styles.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"article-text\" style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe res­ult is an attract­ive col­lec­tion, voiced with con­fid­ence and an attract­ive bass-bari­tone by Hamb­leton and with Lep­per provid­ing secure, sens­it­ive piano accom­pani­ments.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"article-text\" style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHigh­lights include the ini­tial Brit­ten sequence, includ­ing three rare songs from This Way to the Tomb, a play by Ron­ald Duncan ini­tially staged in 1945; Judith Weir’s clean-edged, pur­pose­ful set­ting of Shakespeare’s Son­net 116 (‘Let me not to the mar­riage of true minds’); Tarik O’regan’s Three Motion Set­tings, based on texts by the former Poet Laur­eate, and which show a fresh­ness of com­pos­i­tional voice; and Huw Watkins’s Look Down, Fair Moon, where the per­formers’ dra­matic approach pre­cisely suits the thought­ful mater­ial.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"article-text\" style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIndeed, it’s the qual­ity of the per­form­ances as much as the attrac­tions of an unusual pro­gramme (eight items new to disc) that make this assemblage so desir­able. Everything is con­sidered, ima­gin­at­ive and delivered to a high level.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"article-text\" style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/i.shgcdn.com\/6979997e-4268-4167-9b89-086eadf75ecb\/\" width=\"173\" height=\"70\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"article-text\" style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre';\"\u003eVOCAL CHOICE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-item animate__animated \"\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-40c94d9b-082d-4cc2-8e54-097bb5237902\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content shg-proportional-font-size\"\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: center; font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e'There is a dark tone to lots of the songs – the booklet explains that several were transposed lower to fit Tristan Hambleton’s range – and this has implications for the tessitura of the piano too. Britten is always unimpeachable, and his short sequence \u003cem\u003eThis Way to the Tomb\u003c\/em\u003e, written during the composition of \u003cem\u003ePeter Grimes\u003c\/em\u003e, is a perfect opener, crisp but always teetering on the brink of melancholy. Sally Beamish’s song gives the album its name, has an admirable pared-back simplicity, as is Judith Weir’s more declamatory setting of Shakespeare’s \u003cem\u003eSonnet 116\u003c\/em\u003e. Thomas Adès’s arrangement of Purcell’s \u003cem\u003eBy beauteous softness\u003c\/em\u003e is both beauteous and soft, while Tarik O’Regan’s settings of Andrew Motion are more troubled, both in the hesitant vocals and peripatetic piano parts. Huw Watkins’ three songs look up to the moon and explore some of the higher reaches of Hambleton’s register, while Stuart MacRae’s \"I know not how it is with you\" is a little gem, tentative and aching.'\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/i.shgcdn.com\/5a516778-ee65-403e-b420-5140beb67764\/\" width=\"159\" height=\"71\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-item animate__animated \"\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-4e9a2706-9898-4b89-843c-75b76ef2408f\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 22px; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Abhaya Libre';\" data-fontfamily=\"Abhaya Libre\"\u003e'Hambleton's clarity of tone is a consistent pleasure throughout. Britten's \u003cem\u003eThis Way to the Tomb\u003c\/em\u003e is particularly striking, Lepper's accompaniment percussive and alive to Hambleton's phrasing. Richard Sisson's \u003cem\u003eThe Silver Swan is a delight\u003c\/em\u003e, and Stuart Macrae's \u003cem\u003eI Know Not How It Is with You\u003c\/em\u003e sits at the album's emotional heart. In Huw Watkins's contributions we hear the full expressive range of Hambleton's voice, while Sally Beamish's \u003cem\u003eDay of These Days\u003c\/em\u003e — brief but telling — captures Laurie Lee's words with quiet precision, Hambleton's lower register particularly effective. The album's most elegant moment may be Thomas Adès's arrangement of Purcell's \u003cem\u003eBy Beauteous Softness\u003c\/em\u003e, sung with real poise.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Abhaya Libre';\" data-fontfamily=\"Abhaya Libre\"\u003eDelphian's recording team have done their customary excellent work, the sound beautifully suited to the intimate nature of the material'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"line-height: 22px; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Abhaya Libre';\" data-fontfamily=\"Abhaya Libre\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/i.shgcdn.com\/b908c181-7c63-4f61-924b-229c255e9843\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"155\" height=\"50\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"line-height: 22px; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Abhaya Libre';\" data-fontfamily=\"Abhaya Libre\"\u003eRead the full review \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/chimeo.com\/article\/Classical-Music-Day-Of-These-Days-The-British-Isles-Reflected-In-Song\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-item animate__animated \"\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-afb43adc-a573-4bd9-9b81-08752f98d48b\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content shg-proportional-font-size\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(22px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e'An album subtitled “The British Isles Reflected in Song” sounds as cosy as cheese on toast. It isn’t. After an obligatory pair of Brittens, bass-baritone Tristan Hambleton and pianist Simon Lepper swing down lanes and byways. The title song, by Sally Beamish, is a contemplative ramble. Songs by Frank Bridge, Britten’s teacher, hide like a robin from a hedgerow. And gems by living composers — Tarik O’Regan, Huw Watkins, James MacMillan, Stuart MacRae and Richard Sisson — compose a portrait of an island diverse in temperament and temperature. I was much taken by MacRae’s darkly internalised “I know not how it is with you.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(16px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eNorman Lebrecht for:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(22px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/i.shgcdn.com\/6fcb65a3-af8b-423e-a7f8-2b8f0d2bb3ed\/\" width=\"199\" height=\"58\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-item animate__animated \"\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-978ea107-8629-4fcc-abe9-ba57463afcc9\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content shg-proportional-font-size\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(24px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22px; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“You’d have to have a heart of stone not to be moved. 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font-size: 20px;\" data-fontfamily=\"Abhaya Libre\"\u003eTo mark her seventieth birthday, Sally Beamish returns to the instrument that has shaped her musical life: the viola. \u003cem\u003eHouse of Wonder\u003c\/em\u003e explores recent works written by Beamish for herself to play, alongside new pieces she has commissioned especially for this recording from her three children – themselves all accomplished musicians – and other close collaborators.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-size: 20px;\" data-fontfamily=\"Abhaya Libre\"\u003eAutobiography runs through the programme. Childhood memories surface in \u003cem\u003eCrescent\u003c\/em\u003e; poetry and jazz inflections shape the intimate cycle \u003cem\u003eNight Songs\u003c\/em\u003e; and tributes from friends and family expand the viola’s expressive world in unexpected directions. Contributions from Ryan Corbett, Joseph Havlat, Rosalind Ventris, Imogen Whitehead, Stephanie Irvine and the spoken voice of Beamish’s husband Peter Thomson create a circle of musical friendships around Beamish’s playing. 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At the centre of it all is Beamish herself, a musical shapeshifter, at home in classical, jazz or folk fiddle, performing on her own instrument, the viola.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"dcr-130mj7b\" style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIt opens with April, a luminous chaconne for viola and accordion memorialising her friend, jazz pianist Ellis Marsalis Jr. Equally poignant is Gerropaedie for viola and harp, a Satie-inspired birthday gift for an elderly patron.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"sign-in-gate\" style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp class=\"dcr-130mj7b\" style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eMuch here is autobiographical. Crescent, a trio for viola, piano and trumpet, is inspired by family games growing up in Islington, wistfully offset by what she refers to as her father’s emotional absence. The likeable Sally’s Tune is a portrait piece by Celtic folk musicians Catriona McKay and Chris Stout.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"dcr-130mj7b\" style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/i.shgcdn.com\/f364c7c4-1c56-4253-b81e-9ab3bc7b4e30\/\" width=\"130\" height=\"71\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-item animate__animated \"\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-f596431f-44bd-4735-97ac-0ea6e51afae3\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 22px; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Abhaya Libre';\" data-fontfamily=\"Abhaya Libre\"\u003e'It seems only yesterday that Sally Beamish quit as principal viola of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra to pursue a career as a successful composer. That was over 30 years ago. Now 70, she’s released a very personal album “with friends and family” celebrating the milestone. Her own music and viola playing feature prominently. Accordionist Ryan Corbett joins her in April, an exquisite tribute to the late jazz pianist Ellis Marsalis Jr, while trumpeter Imogen Whitehead and pianist Joseph Havlat feature in Crescent, a playful evocation of London childhood memories. Other Beamish works include the haunting Glanz for solo viola and the feisty Prelude and Canon for two warring violas. From family members there’s son Laurie Irvine’s spiky tango-like Lurk, the heated angst of other son Tom’s Where You Are, and daughter Stephanie’s haunting, beautifully sung House of Wonder. There’s much more besides, including Chris Stout and Catriona McKay’s toe-tapping Sally’s Tune.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"line-height: 22px; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/i.shgcdn.com\/f42ce9bb-b65b-4e0d-ab4a-d35e68c99ab2\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"56\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"line-height: 22px; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e★★★★★\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-item animate__animated \"\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-36acae5e-4b41-4c6c-b03d-fa7f55ac5354\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Abhaya Libre';\" data-fontfamily=\"Abhaya Libre\"\u003e'Sally Beamish's approaching 70th birthday makes this latest release a welcome overview of her chamber output, primarily from the past decade. Not least with its inclusion of pieces for her own instrument, the viola, to which she had returned after a pause of more than 20 years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Abhaya Libre';\" data-fontfamily=\"Abhaya Libre\"\u003eThe two collections find Beamish at her most personal. The five pieces of Crescent reflect in intimate but not always nostalgic terms on aspects of her childhood and adolescence, whereas three Night Songs integrate verse by Duffy, Yeats and Auden into their musical fabric with no mean resourcefulness and not least as declaimed with the expressive agility of Peter Thomson. Gerropaedie is a poised if hardly Satie-esque 80th-birthday tribute to friend and patron Gerry Mattock, Glanz her eloquent (obliquely Schoenbergian) memorial for Peter Maxwell Davies, Prelude and Canon as trenchant a workout for violas as it was in its original guise for violins ...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Abhaya Libre';\" data-fontfamily=\"Abhaya Libre\"\u003eThe recordings feel as sensitively attuned to their composer's idiom as expected, abetted by the spacious acoustic of Menuhin Hall and enhanced with detailed annotations from Andrew Stewart. Beamish's many admirers will find this to be an appealing and affecting anthology.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/i.shgcdn.com\/1e23db42-c1fe-4a7c-9887-89fa14fc1bd6\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"32\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-item animate__animated \"\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-d0e6312f-7738-4ce4-8069-b3dee41e7fbf\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content shg-proportional-font-size\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center; font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22px;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: center; font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e'This disc offers a unique insight into the private world of a female composer, with a strong connection to family and home.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/i.shgcdn.com\/746fe81d-2ce7-4040-a13b-83319a7c9e0a\/\" width=\"160\" height=\"54\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: center; font-size: calc(16px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100);\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/musicwebinternational.com\/2026\/07\/beamish-house-of-wonders-delphian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eRead the full review here\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-item animate__animated \"\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-fca4bc0d-c08a-4568-b7d4-c178c73958b1\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content shg-proportional-font-size\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center; font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e'Indeed, despite its excellent performances and its wide-ranging repertoire, House of Wonder probably functions more strongly as a vivid sonic autobiography to dip into rather than a cohesive collection to be experienced end to end. Nonetheless, there’s plenty of wonder on show, from the childhood memories captured in Beamish’s Crescent for the unlikely but highly effective combination of trumpet, viola and piano, to the intensely decorated Scottish pibroch-inspired Prelude and Canon for two violas, in which Beamish and Rosalind Ventris match sounds magically. The spiky, tango-flavoured Lurk by Beamish’s son Laurie Irvine gets a persuasive performance from his mother and accordionist Ryan Corbett, while the work by Beamish’s daughter Stephanie that gives the disc its title shimmers with harp harmonies and a resonant viola line.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: center; font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIt feels at times as though the release is perched precariously between Beamish’s personal world and her public statements, but it’s also the disc’s warm-hearted sincerity and openness that make it so powerful and affecting.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: center; font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/i.shgcdn.com\/3f6d3d98-ce49-4475-9721-b7bfb195213f\/\" width=\"97\" height=\"51\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-item animate__animated \"\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-90deba65-9bfe-4b5d-b1f7-7ac04bfe41b1\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content shg-proportional-font-size\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"article-text\" style=\"text-align: center; font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e'Cur­ated to mark Sally Beam­ish’s 70th birth­day, House of Won­der offers an enga­ging por­trait of her wide-ran­ging and fruit­ful musical life. The album of musical snap­shots and remin­is­cences is inter­woven with auto­bi­o­graph­ical threads, draw­ing in music by fam­ily, friends and close col­leagues, along with a selec­tion of Beam­ish’s own works ...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"article-text\" style=\"text-align: center; font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e... Record­ing qual­ity is clear and res­on­ant throughout, doing full justice to some unusual instru­mental com­bin­a­tions. 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Not to be missed.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(22px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22px; text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cimg style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/i.shgcdn.com\/1e23db42-c1fe-4a7c-9887-89fa14fc1bd6\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"42\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-item animate__animated \"\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-ec3a3e2d-fdee-45e4-af94-8363e67043d2\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20px;\"\u003e'The work opens with Hulett's exquisite voice – lyrical, eloquent, and perfectly calibrated to the sentiment – accompanied by harp and organ in a balance that never overwhelms. The hushed entry of the choir is delightful; Rubbra's compositional mastery in colouring the words is evident from the first phrase.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20px;\"\u003eThe organ music is beautifully realised on the Merton instrument. Crescendos and careful registration create an atmosphere of mystery and contemplation—the Meditation for Organ is a work of quiet loveliness, while\u003cem\u003e Prelude and Fugue on a Theme by Cyril Scott\u003c\/em\u003e offers pages of magical, hushed colour.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20px;\"\u003eAs one has come to expect from Benjamin Nicholas's Merton ensemble, the precision and tonal beauty are exquisite: impeccably balanced, with admirable diction throughout. The choir captures Rubbra's spiritual world without apparent effort; the dynamics are perfectly judged.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/i.shgcdn.com\/b908c181-7c63-4f61-924b-229c255e9843\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"52\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/chimeo.com\/article\/Classical-Music-Edmund-Rubbra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eread the full review here\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-item animate__animated \"\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-8fec8e06-0e5b-43e4-a0ea-1cea60da5ac9\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Abhaya Libre';\" data-fontfamily=\"Abhaya Libre\"\u003e\"I’ve heard virtually all the discs which Benjamin Nicholas and the Choir of Merton College have made for Delphian over the years. I’ve never been disappointed, either in the chosen repertoire or in the standard of performance. That’s very much the case here, too. The singing is flawless throughout – as is the playing of the quartet of players from the Britten Sinfonia in \u003cem\u003eCrucifixus pro Nobis.\u003c\/em\u003e Rubbra has been exceptionally well served by this disc.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Abhaya Libre';\" data-fontfamily=\"Abhaya Libre\"\u003eI’ve also come to expect the highest standards of documentation and engineering from Delphian; that’s certainly the case here. The number of times I’ve cited Alexandra Coghlan’s essay about the music attests to the value I’ve extracted from it. Engineer\/producer Paul Baxter is now a seasoned veteran of recording in Merton College Chapel; that shows in the clear, truthful recorded sound.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Abhaya Libre';\" data-fontfamily=\"Abhaya Libre\"\u003eAdmirers of the reserved but very fine music of Edmund Rubbra should not hesitate to acquire this recording. Equally, though, I hope it may win new friends for this excellent composer.\"  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-size: 20px;\"\u003eJohn Quinn - MusicWeb International\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/musicwebinternational.com\/2026\/04\/rubbra-crucifixus-pro-nobis-delphian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eread his full review here\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-item animate__animated \"\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-44bd5c78-176e-48dd-a562-208586051424\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content shg-proportional-font-size\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e'The \u003cem\u003eMissa in honorem Sancti Dominici\u003c\/em\u003e for four-part choir has been recorded several times.It is a very moving work and what I like about this Merton performance is the close attention to detail, ie, dynamic shadings and tempi all in line with the composer’s wishes. Though the tenors and sometimes sopranos may sound strained at points, the overall performance is utterly effective.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003eRubbra’s \u003cem\u003eVirgin’s Cradle Hymn\u003c\/em\u003e of 1922 has an immediate appeal. Published in the \u003cem\u003eOxford Book of Carols\u003c\/em\u003e but now is little heard, so this recording will remind listeners of its ethereal beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003eRubbra’s \u003cem\u003eEvening Service in Ab\u003c\/em\u003e is often in the cathedral repertoire although it is an organist’s nightmare with, in the Gloria, triplet quavers in the pedals against typically bell like rising and falling duplet scales in the hands. If well-balanced, as here, it is electrifying and exultant.'\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/i.shgcdn.com\/03c4df0a-dddc-40a9-a758-aa573371f739\/\" width=\"99\" height=\"81\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-item animate__animated \"\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-d4db19db-ffad-4069-b313-ee8753047483\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content shg-proportional-font-size\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e'Edmund Rubbra (1901-86) wrote 11 symphonies. They’re rarely played nowadays, which is both understandable and a little unfair. He was a skilled craftsman with a steady religious mind, creating a musical signature of both conservative distinction and mild-mannered curiosity. That’s certainly the impression given by Benjamin Nicholas’ Choir of Merton College, joined variously in this album of mainly religious choral music by the Britten Sinfonia, tenor Benjamin Hulett and organists François Cloete and Owen Chan. Short and appealing, The Virgin’s Cradle Hymn finds Rubbra inspired by tradition as a student, whereas such later works as the steady-handed Missa in Honorem Sancti Dominici (intriguing hints of Eastern musical influence) and Cantata di Camera: Crucifixus pro Nobis (exquisite colourings from the intimate instrumental ensemble) demonstrate his imagination. Two of the voluptuous Five Motets Op 37 leave you thirsting for the other three. 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Across pieces for strings, voice, piano, percussion and tape, including three specially written for contralto Jess Dandy, familiar materials are quietly transformed: patterns fracture and reform, stasis gives way to movement, and moments of unguarded lyricism emerge unexpectedly. Those encountering Mills for the first time will find a compelling introduction to a composer whose music asks not for interpretation, but for attentive, inward listening – music that is ‘not meditative, but a meditation’.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-0d7907cc-4fb2-4bce-85c3-243391dfaedb\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-hr-wrapper\"\u003e \u003chr\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shogun-tab-content\" id=\"panel-4ef084e4-1ab8-4af3-9ef6-abb1b6b5a388\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"tab-4ef084e4-1ab8-4af3-9ef6-abb1b6b5a388\"\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-7a212301-8b62-436c-8eca-19e532799528\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003ciframe allow=\"autoplay *; encrypted-media *;\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"450\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:660px;overflow:hidden;background:transparent;\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.music.apple.com\/gb\/album\/look-how-brightly-chamber-music-by-alex-mills\/1878652589\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-78829877-a9ec-4d39-8336-880f0496c836\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-hr-wrapper\"\u003e \u003chr\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shogun-tab-content\" id=\"panel-5b6a119f-2795-48ab-857f-fb44b2469591\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"tab-5b6a119f-2795-48ab-857f-fb44b2469591\"\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-cc25e7d1-6368-4eb6-8abc-a24161429ff6\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"slider-s-cc25e7d1-6368-4eb6-8abc-a24161429ff6\" class=\"shg-sld\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-content\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-nav-button shg-sld-left \"\u003e \u003csvg width=\"1792\" height=\"1792\" viewbox=\"0 0 1792 1792\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" style=\"fill: rgba(113, 113, 113, 1);\"\u003e \u003cpath d=\"M1203 544q0 13-10 23l-393 393 393 393q10 10 10 23t-10 23l-50 50q-10 10-23 10t-23-10l-466-466q-10-10-10-23t10-23l466-466q10-10 23-10t23 10l50 50q10 10 10 23z\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e \u003c\/svg\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-slides shg-sld-slides-padded\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-item animate__animated shg-sld-active \"\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-c51a1f4a-cd38-4e23-8855-c5d77bc3026b\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content shg-proportional-font-size\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center; font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e'Presence and absence present just one of several paradoxes in Mills’s richly ambiguous musical language. Unity and separation lie at the heart of Strings Attached for violin and piano, where both instruments’ lines combine, converge and splinter, creating a dynamic sense of ebb and flow, stasis and movement, permanence and transience. A similar approach underpins Fragment for string quartet and Dirges for the Living for violin and cello, whose opening unisons yield in the former a series of wailing, keening gestures and in the latter more pointillistic textures.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center; font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eA further dimension is provided through the addition of a female voice in one of the album’s highlights, the two-movement BARDO, which engages with another paradox: death and rebirth. 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Patterns fracture and reform, stasis gives way to movement, and moments of unguarded lyricism emerge unexpectedly. Those encountering Mills for the first time will find a compelling introduction to a composer whose music asks not for interpretation but for attentive, inward listening—music, in Mills's own words, that is \"not meditative but a meditation.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThis is one of the great joys of contemporary music at its best: the capacity to suspend the listener in a charged, attentive present. The strings achieve something remarkable here, generating emotion through sheer concentration of texture. \u003cem\u003eThe intensity of Strings Attached\u003c\/em\u003e is striking, and Mills's creative use of register, combined with carefully judged repetition, proves highly effective. Patterns circle and accrete; small shifts feel consequential.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/i.shgcdn.com\/b908c181-7c63-4f61-924b-229c255e9843\/\" width=\"164\" height=\"53\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-item animate__animated \"\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-91196f9a-a2c4-4c42-89c9-32d2d498bebf\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content shg-proportional-font-size\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22px; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e'Central to Mills’s body of work is a preoccupation with unison and fragmentation: musical lines that move together, unravel, fall apart, transform, and reintegrate. Drawing on influences as diverse as the Tibetan Book of the Dead, trauma studies, psychological theories, and grieving rituals, Mills likens these musical processes to the cyclical and bittersweet nature of human experience — how we continually break down, transform, and regather ourselves as we negotiate the many different parts of who we are.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22px; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/i.shgcdn.com\/849f3b2b-91cc-44e5-b5b0-1d7fb93965a1\/\" width=\"766\" height=\"150\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-nav-button shg-sld-right \"\u003e \u003csvg width=\"1792\" height=\"1792\" viewbox=\"0 0 1792 1792\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" style=\"fill: 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Responding to the paradoxes and recurring patterns identified in the text, Benjamin Woodgates’ music drifts between ambiguity and momentum, attraction and resistance, stasis and sudden change. Ideas recombine and propel themselves forward, creating textures that shimmer, pulse, teeter and fuzz with energy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 22px; font-family: 'Abhaya Libre';\" data-fontfamily=\"Abhaya Libre\"\u003ePerformed by Calum Huggan and angela wai nok hui, the two marimbas act as both engine and echo chamber – resonant, volatile, and alive with motion – inviting the listener into a hypnotic world where structure and instability coexist.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shogun-tab-content\" id=\"panel-4ef084e4-1ab8-4af3-9ef6-abb1b6b5a388\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"tab-4ef084e4-1ab8-4af3-9ef6-abb1b6b5a388\"\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-162d19ca-cd4e-4220-ad8d-935db76c0b98\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003ciframe allow=\"autoplay *; encrypted-media *; fullscreen *; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"450\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:660px;overflow:hidden;border-radius:10px;\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.music.apple.com\/gb\/album\/the-system-made-me-do-it\/1876536176\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shogun-tab-content\" id=\"panel-5b6a119f-2795-48ab-857f-fb44b2469591\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"tab-5b6a119f-2795-48ab-857f-fb44b2469591\"\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-ab4a844a-58b7-4854-89d7-4d889234d4a9\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"slider-s-ab4a844a-58b7-4854-89d7-4d889234d4a9\" class=\"shg-sld\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-content\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-nav-button shg-sld-left \"\u003e \u003csvg width=\"1792\" height=\"1792\" viewbox=\"0 0 1792 1792\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" style=\"fill: rgba(113, 113, 113, 1);\"\u003e \u003cpath d=\"M1203 544q0 13-10 23l-393 393 393 393q10 10 10 23t-10 23l-50 50q-10 10-23 10t-23-10l-466-466q-10-10-10-23t10-23l466-466q10-10 23-10t23 10l50 50q10 10 10 23z\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e \u003c\/svg\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-slides shg-sld-slides-padded\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-item animate__animated shg-sld-active \"\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-135002fa-1b47-425f-b2b5-d50f71a61962\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 22px; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 22px; font-family: 'Abhaya Libre';\" data-fontfamily=\"Abhaya Libre\"\u003e'one of the most intellectually compelling new music releases of the year ...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"line-height: 22px; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 22px; font-family: 'Abhaya Libre';\" data-fontfamily=\"Abhaya Libre\"\u003eThe musical building blocks consistently draw from the book's themes, yet the music is crafted to exist independently, free from its context. On this recording, it emphatically does. The result shimmers, pulses and occasionally buzzes with a barely contained energy — hypnotic in the manner of great haiku, compressed and elusive, arriving and departing in the same breath, and lingering long after the sound has died away.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 22px; font-family: 'Abhaya Libre';\" data-fontfamily=\"Abhaya Libre\"\u003eAnother fascinating release from Delphian, a label that consistently makes the unfamiliar feel essential.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-size: 18px;\"\u003e \u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/i.shgcdn.com\/b908c181-7c63-4f61-924b-229c255e9843\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"67\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-item animate__animated \"\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-93309409-20bb-4e51-add6-81719f578dd2\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content shg-proportional-font-size\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(24px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); 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line-height: 23px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eCentred on Ravel’s luminous Miroirs, this striking solo album from Irish pianist-composer Seán Morgan-Rooney unfolds as a sequence of reflections on nature, memory and self-perception. Ravel’s five finely etched character pieces are interwoven with music by Berio,\u2028 Stravinsky and Eötvös, alongside Morgan-Rooney’s own electroacoustic miniatures, tracing a journey through air, fire, earth and water – the elemental framework subtly encoded in the album’s title.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"line-height: 23px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400; font-size: calc(22px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100);\"\u003eThe result is at once intimate and expansive: piano sonorities dissolve into electronics, familiar masterpieces open onto new perspectives, and moments of virtuosity give way to stillness and resonance. Ahead of his forthcoming duo recording with mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean, this deeply personal solo project reveals Morgan-Rooney as both interpreter and creator, inviting the listener into a space where reflection becomes transformation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-92062a49-3330-4ff6-a04f-18655ca5fc14\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-hr-wrapper\"\u003e \u003chr\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shogun-tab-content\" id=\"panel-4ef084e4-1ab8-4af3-9ef6-abb1b6b5a388\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"tab-4ef084e4-1ab8-4af3-9ef6-abb1b6b5a388\"\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-88c95867-bd0c-4684-ae3d-19384474d09f\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003ciframe allow=\"autoplay *; encrypted-media *;\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"450\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:660px;overflow:hidden;background:transparent;\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.music.apple.com\/gb\/album\/a-few-reflect-the-heart\/1878661512\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shogun-tab-content\" id=\"panel-5b6a119f-2795-48ab-857f-fb44b2469591\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"tab-5b6a119f-2795-48ab-857f-fb44b2469591\"\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-70d7318d-8626-43e2-b36d-b66690e1b674\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"slider-s-70d7318d-8626-43e2-b36d-b66690e1b674\" class=\"shg-sld\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-content\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-nav-button shg-sld-left \"\u003e \u003csvg width=\"1792\" height=\"1792\" viewbox=\"0 0 1792 1792\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" style=\"fill: rgba(113, 113, 113, 1);\"\u003e \u003cpath d=\"M1203 544q0 13-10 23l-393 393 393 393q10 10 10 23t-10 23l-50 50q-10 10-23 10t-23-10l-466-466q-10-10-10-23t10-23l466-466q10-10 23-10t23 10l50 50q10 10 10 23z\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e \u003c\/svg\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-slides shg-sld-slides-padded\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-item animate__animated shg-sld-active \"\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-561ca4ff-153f-4edc-95c4-2c4ac3de1646\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content shg-proportional-font-size\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center; font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e'Delphian is doing a fine trade in concept albums. Among the latest is Irish pianist-composer Seán Morgan-Rooney’s A Few Reflect the Heart, centred on Ravel’s five coruscating Miroirs, spread within a personally reflective sequence of Morgan-Rooney’s own works - he calls them “element pieces“ representing air, fire, earth and water - and sympathetic examples by Berio, Stravinsky and Péter Eötvös. The Ravel performances are exquisite, wistfully tantalising. A scene-setting electroacoustic Overture by Morgan-Rooney - snatches of Ravel moodily integrated within an electronic soundscape - establishes the pianist’s composer signature. Pneumaplume casts an ethereal airborne spell; Wavephile a watery lugubriousness in the wake of Berio's Wasserklavier; Ignis Beat a fiery unpredictability that segues explosively into Stravinsky’s The Firebird. Meanwhile Earth-tether-ether makes a mystically profound follow-up to Ravel’s sonorous La vallée des cloches. 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The young Irish pianist and composer Seán Morgan-Rooney goes one step further. He has written five companion pieces to go with it: music that mirrors, comments on and complements Miroirs. Central to this are the four elements that appear in Ravel’s cycle: earth, water, fire and air.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eMorgan-Rooney has created a clever album. He plays Miroirs beautifully, conjuring up the swarm of moths in ‘Noctuelles’ with great finesse. In his own pieces, he adds electronics. 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22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eDialogues presents baritone Julien Van Mellaerts and pianist Dylan Perez in a recital shaped as a continuous narrative, interweaving Schubert’s \u003cem\u003eSchwanengesang \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003ewith \u003cem\u003eT\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ehe Lake\u003c\/em\u003e, a newly commissioned cycle by Errollyn Wallen. Rather than contrasting past and present, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003ethe programme unfolds within a shared, intimate soundworld: Wallen’s reflective songs frame and reshape Schubert’s, allowing familiar numbers to emerge with new focus and perspective.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eVan Mellaerts and Perez approach the sequence as a single arc, their close partnership emphasising text, colour and atmosphere. The result is a compelling reimagining of Schubert’s late songs, where new music becomes part of the same expressive landscape rather than a commentary upon it – a powerful meditation on love, distance, memory and hope.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shogun-tab-content\" id=\"panel-4ef084e4-1ab8-4af3-9ef6-abb1b6b5a388\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"tab-4ef084e4-1ab8-4af3-9ef6-abb1b6b5a388\"\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-9b5c6c93-99db-450e-9d4c-1847a0855714\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003ciframe allow=\"autoplay *; encrypted-media *; fullscreen *; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"450\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:660px;overflow:hidden;border-radius:10px;\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.music.apple.com\/gb\/album\/dialogues\/6774605053\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shogun-tab-content\" id=\"panel-5b6a119f-2795-48ab-857f-fb44b2469591\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"tab-5b6a119f-2795-48ab-857f-fb44b2469591\"\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-db50a3c6-df0c-4ad3-8892-5ae17aebd72a\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"slider-s-db50a3c6-df0c-4ad3-8892-5ae17aebd72a\" class=\"shg-sld\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-content\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-nav-button shg-sld-left \"\u003e \u003csvg width=\"1792\" height=\"1792\" viewbox=\"0 0 1792 1792\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" style=\"fill: rgba(113, 113, 113, 1);\"\u003e \u003cpath d=\"M1203 544q0 13-10 23l-393 393 393 393q10 10 10 23t-10 23l-50 50q-10 10-23 10t-23-10l-466-466q-10-10-10-23t10-23l466-466q10-10 23-10t23 10l50 50q10 10 10 23z\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e \u003c\/svg\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-slides shg-sld-slides-padded\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-item animate__animated shg-sld-active \"\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-7c0b5d70-9d1a-41d1-b38c-b77b7db3dbbf\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content shg-proportional-font-size\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(24px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e'his talents as a storyteller are evident in the darker songs, with a palpable weariness as the wanderer trudges on in 'In der Fern'. And he is never less than attentiveto the nuances of the texts, be it Rellstab, Heine or Wallen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(24px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe partnership with Dylan Perez is winning. In 'Am Meer', they are as one. 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Nikolovska got the honour of the premiere performance, but Van Mellaerts was the first into the recording studio, and has just released the gorgeous album \u003cem\u003eDialogues\u003c\/em\u003e, with pianist Dylan Perez.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"\" style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe dialogue that Wallen engages in is with Franz Schubert. \u003cem\u003eThe Lake\u003c\/em\u003e seeps between the feathers of \u003cem\u003eSchwanengesang\u003c\/em\u003e – \u003cem\u003eSwansong\u003c\/em\u003e – the 14 lieder collected and published just after Schubert’s death.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"\" style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDialogues\u003c\/em\u003e appears on the Delphian label. It’s known for the high fidelity of its recordings, and its catalogue is quality packed and selective. '\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"\" style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/i.shgcdn.com\/62974c23-f3dc-4bb4-9a0e-8bb1abcc9fea\/\" width=\"121\" height=\"68\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-item animate__animated \"\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-ed51c9cf-d7df-4504-bc91-cd94e6c1caea\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Abhaya Libre';\" data-fontfamily=\"Abhaya Libre\"\u003e'The idea that Schubert can cohabit lieder recitals in “dialogue” with complementary song settings is not new. But this one, in which songs from the posthumously-published Schwanengesang are reordered and interspersed with equally questioning and personal poetry by composer Errollyn Wallen, is both intuitive and potent. It’s also a dynamic coupling, Wallen having given carte blanche to baritone Julien Van Mellaerts and pianist Dylan Perez to present her collection, The Lake, in any format they wish. For this recording the ordering of both the Schubert and Wallen interact to tell a unique story. You hear in Wallen’s songs music that is often powerfully elemental, hearteningly beautiful, even teasingly inconclusive, serving up a contemporary reaction to the spiritual disquiet of Schubert’s Rellstab, Heine and Seidl settings. A magical segue from Wallen’s Courage - where the subject finds internal peace - to Schubert’s haunting Der Doppelgänger concludes a thoughtful, reflective performance.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Abhaya Libre';\" data-fontfamily=\"Abhaya Libre\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e★★★★\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/i.shgcdn.com\/f42ce9bb-b65b-4e0d-ab4a-d35e68c99ab2\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"58\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-item animate__animated \"\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-9022e684-fa83-40fe-8f72-4e7f25a5b9de\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Abhaya Libre';\" data-fontfamily=\"Abhaya Libre\"\u003e'her music grows just as naturally out of Schubert’s as his sheds illumination on hers. The emergence of her ‘Ready’ out of Schubert’s ‘Kriegers Ahnung’, as if colouring the echoes of the warrior’s anxious cries into the night, is simply gorgeous. The shift in viewpoint, from that of a soldier to that of an uncertain artist, that Wallen’s words provide is pregnant with suggestion. Just as important to effects like these, of course, is Mellaerts’ and Perez’s sequencing, which is throughout attuned to continuities of tone, texture and mood.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Abhaya Libre';\" data-fontfamily=\"Abhaya Libre\"\u003eThere have been musically more radical approaches to this kind of Schubert+ recital ... 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line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eFor his first solo recording, Ben Michaels presents six specially commissioned works, all of them written by fellow cellists whose creative lives extend well beyond the conventional boundaries of instrumental performance. Composers, improvisers, theatre-makers and songwriters, Jakob Kullberg, Laura Moody, Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Zoë Martlew, Kit Downes and Colin Alexander each approach the cello from a distinct artistic perspective, revealing unexpected possibilities within a familiar instrument. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"ydpae29b3abMsoNormal\" style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe resulting works differ widely in scale, language and technique: lyrical melodies sit alongside whispered textures, choreographed movement and striking new sonorities. Yet beneath their diversity lies a shared understanding of the cello’s physical and expressive character. 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text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e'Kullberg’s composition explores a liminal minimal space between spectralism, sound design and instrumental \u003cem\u003emusique concrète\u003c\/em\u003e, its haunting opening evoking the bleak beauty of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s barren soundscapes. Extended string techniques also punctuate the shifting sonic surfaces of Moody’s \u003cem\u003eMandala\u003c\/em\u003e, where restless passages spark a cascade of chaotic outbursts. As with several other compositions on the album, Michaels is called upon to breathe, chatter and whistle while playing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(18px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAyanna Witter-Johnson’s \u003cem\u003eAmethyst Sings\u003c\/em\u003e inhabits more traditional cello territory, its opening arch-like lines yielding a fiery flamenco-like dance. If \u003cem\u003eAmethyst Sings\u003c\/em\u003e occupies the instrument’s centre ground, Zoë Martlew’s \u003cem\u003eInila\u003c\/em\u003e skirts around its acoustical margins and interstices. Inspired by the composer’s trip to Effigy Mounds in Iowa – an ancient site filled with mysterious animal-shaped earth mounds – the work’s title means ‘quiet’ in the Lakȟótiyapi (Lakota) language. \u003cem\u003eInila\u003c\/em\u003e captures the primordial essence of the Effigy Mounds by digging deep into the cello’s own timbral archaeology and uncovering hidden layers, its breath-like whispers and airy panpipe-like melodies hovering above the site’s holy ground like sacred shadow spirits.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(18px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTraditional and modern also rub shoulders in Kit Downes’s three-movement \u003cem\u003eKasei Valles\u003c\/em\u003e, which lies somewhere between Bach’s Solo Suites and Gavin Bryars’s \u003cem\u003eThe South Downs\u003c\/em\u003e, and Colin Alexander’s sweeping \u003cem\u003eTowards the Flame\u003c\/em\u003e, the latter building up in intensity throughout its four-movement cycle to an inexorable gallop that sweeps everything before it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(18px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eMichaels displays phenomenal control and uncommon understanding of the cello’s limitless capabilities throughout the album. Scarily impressive stuff from a musician who is rapidly establishing himself as the Sean Shibe of the cello world.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cimg style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/i.shgcdn.com\/1e23db42-c1fe-4a7c-9887-89fa14fc1bd6\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"42\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-item animate__animated \"\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-60f691bf-5f6e-470f-bb78-7d5df7854397\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content shg-proportional-font-size\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22px; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e'In the six works specially commissioned by Ben Michaels for his new solo cello album, all six composers have one thing in common: they’re all cellists. Where they differ is through their preferred performance mediums, whether it be improvisational, theatrical, song-based, jazz-inspired, or sonic exploration. Jakob Kullberg’s Single the Sky: A Fever Dream offers a captivating, ephemeral narrative, a precise yet transient stream of consciousness. Laura Moody’s Mandala stems from her interest in theatrical choreography, human vocalisations and whistling adding to its frenetic physicality. Where Ayanna Witter-Johnson’s Amethyst Sings is frisky and songlike, Zoë Martlew’s Inila is a breathy, out-of-this-world adventure. Jazz musician Kit Downes’ Kasei Valles, simple and easy-going with frequent nods to Bach, eases the way forward to the meditational intensity of Colin Alexander’s Towards the Flame. Together these pieces, and performances are a fascinating eye-opener: same instrument, infinite possibilities.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22px; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e★★★★\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22px; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/i.shgcdn.com\/f42ce9bb-b65b-4e0d-ab4a-d35e68c99ab2\/\" width=\"201\" height=\"57\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-item animate__animated \"\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-c420368c-6f75-4c01-96f9-31f7d7bfe6d2\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content shg-proportional-font-size\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e'This is a label with previous form. Delphian has built a reputation on recordings that unsettle expectation rather than confirm it, and this disc does exactly that from its opening bars, where Michaels conjures sounds both atmospheric and haunting, testing a technique that turns out to be entirely equal to the demands made of it. There is a melancholy thread running through every piece here, and a textural intensity that never lets up.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIt will not be an album for anyone wanting an easy hour of cello music, and I will admit I needed more than one listen before it began to make sense to me. But persistence pays off: this disc asks you to hear the cello differently, and by the end, you do.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWhat Michaels has built here is plainly more than a technical exercise for cellists of the future: in commissioning these six pieces and then playing every one of them himself, he has tied the physical and the artistic together so tightly that it's hard to say where one ends and the other begins.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/i.shgcdn.com\/b908c181-7c63-4f61-924b-229c255e9843\/\" width=\"142\" height=\"46\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-nav-button shg-sld-right \"\u003e \u003csvg width=\"1792\" height=\"1792\" viewbox=\"0 0 1792 1792\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" style=\"fill: rgba(113, 113, 113, 1);\"\u003e \u003cpath d=\"M1171 960q0 13-10 23l-466 466q-10 10-23 10t-23-10l-50-50q-10-10-10-23t10-23l393-393-393-393q-10-10-10-23t10-23l50-50q10-10 23-10t23 10l466 466q10 10 10 23z\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e \u003c\/svg\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-dots\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-dot shg-sld-active\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-dot\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-dot\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cscript class=\"__SHG_DATA__\" type=\"application\/json\"\u003e\n    {\n      \"__shgSlider\": {\n        \"id\": \"#slider-s-938e406e-8263-4610-9d51-788827f25b40\",\n        \"intervalTime\": 5,\n        \"autoplay\": false,\n        \"pauseOnHover\": false,\n        \"transition\": \"animate__noAnimation\",\n        \"interval\": null\n      }\n    }\n  \u003c\/script\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shogun-tab-content\" id=\"panel-6c597a25-c9d3-4c60-ad62-fcadcc31cc9f\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"tab-6c597a25-c9d3-4c60-ad62-fcadcc31cc9f\"\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-c6b72052-c0a1-43e2-b85b-9b9d0d45e7d1\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content shg-proportional-font-size\"\u003e\u003cp style=\"line-height: 20.2px; 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line-height: 16.5pt; background: white;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Abhaya Libre',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2b2a2a; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eMichael Foyle and Iain Burnside trace connections through three strikingly individual voices across more than a century, finding lyrical intensity, harmonic ambiguity and an instinct for drama that ranges from inward reflection to operatic confrontation. Elgar’s \u003cem\u003eViolin Sonata\u003c\/em\u003e – one of his late masterpieces – emerges here not as nostalgic farewell but as music of restless energy, shadowed by war, loss and private grief. Walton’s expansive, bittersweet \u003cem\u003eSonata\u003c\/em\u003e combines fierce virtuosity with moments of disarming tenderness, while Thomas Adès’s \u003cem\u003eSuite from The Tempest\u003c\/em\u003e reimagines his opera in music of glittering theatricality, the violin writing encompassing the earthy growl of \u003cem\u003eCaliban and Ariel\u003c\/em\u003e’s airborne brilliance. Alongside these large-scale works, Elgar’s \u003cem\u003eChanson de Nuit\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eChanson de Matin\u003c\/em\u003e offer moments of luminous repose.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 11.25pt; line-height: 16.5pt; background: white;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shogun-tab-content\" id=\"panel-4ef084e4-1ab8-4af3-9ef6-abb1b6b5a388\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"tab-4ef084e4-1ab8-4af3-9ef6-abb1b6b5a388\"\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-10440bae-2f17-4def-8323-31b91ccdb2c2\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003ciframe allow=\"autoplay *; encrypted-media *; fullscreen *; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"450\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:660px;overflow:hidden;border-radius:10px;\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.music.apple.com\/gb\/album\/elgar-ad%C3%A8s-walton-music-for-violin-and-piano\/6778486752\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shogun-tab-content\" id=\"panel-5b6a119f-2795-48ab-857f-fb44b2469591\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"tab-5b6a119f-2795-48ab-857f-fb44b2469591\"\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-306c0cd1-e901-419a-afe4-e5c82a29198f\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"slider-s-306c0cd1-e901-419a-afe4-e5c82a29198f\" class=\"shg-sld\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-content\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-nav-button shg-sld-left \"\u003e \u003csvg width=\"1792\" height=\"1792\" viewbox=\"0 0 1792 1792\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" style=\"fill: rgba(113, 113, 113, 1);\"\u003e \u003cpath d=\"M1203 544q0 13-10 23l-393 393 393 393q10 10 10 23t-10 23l-50 50q-10 10-23 10t-23-10l-466-466q-10-10-10-23t10-23l466-466q10-10 23-10t23 10l50 50q10 10 10 23z\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e \u003c\/svg\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-slides shg-sld-slides-padded\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-item animate__animated shg-sld-active \"\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-1a8e0d9c-32b2-484f-9cc6-d41f62df4e3f\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content shg-proportional-font-size\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(18px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22px; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e'Michael Foyle and Iain Burnside play with the intimate accord that comes from being fellow members (with Jonathan Aasgaard) of Trio Balthasar, a group formed in 2022. Everything is right in place, intuitively, and Foyle in particular has fire in his belly. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(18px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22px; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe opening movement rekindles some of the languid lyricism that had coloured the Violin Concerto (1938 39) with Walton’s love for Alice – but it is cooler here and fluttering within its opening line is an odd reminiscence of the opening violin reverie of \u003cem\u003eThe Lark Ascending\u003c\/em\u003e, which, once recognised, is hard to forget. Then comes a set of vividly contrasted variations working well in aggregate and looking forward now – Janus-like – to aspects of the Second Symphony of 1957 60 ....\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(18px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22px; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eDelphian’s recording in Perth Town Hall captures the instruments closely but comfortably and affords them an involving intimacy. Other versions of the Elgar and Walton (even as a coupling) are reasonably plentiful but this one is especially thought-provoking; in encompassing the four spiky offshoots that comprise Ades’s Suite from \u003cem\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/em\u003e as its unique selling point this widens the horizon just as effectively as do the moving renditions of the two Elgar \u003cem\u003eChansons\u003c\/em\u003e that bring this engaging album full circle.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(18px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22px; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/i.shgcdn.com\/1e23db42-c1fe-4a7c-9887-89fa14fc1bd6\/\" width=\"251\" height=\"36\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(18px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22px; text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-item animate__animated \"\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-b4425df0-c7f2-44c2-80f3-1e0b882d0be5\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content shg-proportional-font-size\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e'These works by English composers make for an attractive programme. Foyle and Burnside are a well-matched, their elegantly delineated playing ensuring that even the most passionate of passages never tip into sentimentality. This approach is particularly well suited to Adès's eerie Suite from The Tempest ... the Chansons de Nuit and de Matin brim with tenderness.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/i.shgcdn.com\/431fa041-983d-4bc7-84d0-a764a69b8168\/\" width=\"206\" height=\"52\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-item animate__animated \"\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-22d5dc6d-2a3f-4f01-b455-8afe9fabe6cb\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content shg-proportional-font-size\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center; font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e'Elgar was living in Sussex when he composed his 1918 Violin Sonata, no doubt conscious of wartime artillery fire across the Channel. There is, however, a distanced escapism in this music, even in its darker moments, which British-Dutch violinist Michael Foyle latches onto in a genuinely thoughtful performance with pianist Iain Burnside. Where the passion peaks - the impatience of the opening, the intense heart-filled peak of an otherwise placid Romance, the finale’s lofty surges - composure, even inner peace, still dominate its emotional core. No surprise, then, that the delicate tracery of Thomas Adès’ Suite from The Tempest enjoys equally touching treatment, nor that William Walton’s 1940s Violin Sonata evokes so much of the lyrical tenderness, bittersweet texturing and euphoric joy the composer invested in it. Foyle returns to Elgar for his final tracks, the combined enchantment of Chanson de Nuit and Chanson de Matin.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: center; font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/i.shgcdn.com\/f42ce9bb-b65b-4e0d-ab4a-d35e68c99ab2\/\" width=\"184\" height=\"52\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-item animate__animated \"\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-22120fb4-2505-41db-865b-19058b6e0dfc\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content shg-proportional-font-size\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e'There are many recordings of Elgar's \u003cem\u003eViolin Sonata\u003c\/em\u003e, but coming to it fresh after some time away, I heard things anew in this wonderfully authoritative account.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eOpening this excellently recorded Delphian disc, the sonata is played with a beautiful sensitivity, its lines phrased with real understanding – nowhere more so than in the Romance slow movement, with its rippling piano accompaniment. Every movement is delivered with delectable expression, Burnside's accompaniment judiciously weighed against Foyle's tone, and the emotional core of the piece is never in doubt. Far from a wistful late farewell, this is playing full of nervous energy, with the war years and private sorrow never far beneath the surface. The intimacy is palpable.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/i.shgcdn.com\/b908c181-7c63-4f61-924b-229c255e9843\/\" width=\"170\" height=\"55\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); text-align: center; line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eRead the full review \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/chimeo.com\/article\/Classical-Music-Music-for-Violin--Piano\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-sld-item animate__animated \"\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"s-32c59e63-cdd5-4246-af8f-13b182712357\" class=\"shg-c \"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content shg-proportional-font-size\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"article-full-body\" style=\"text-align: center; font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e'Wiry, sinewy, intense, urgently energetic: to say that Elgar’s Violin Sonata opens in the hands of Michael Foyle and Iain Burnside sounding a little less richly Romantic than usual is an understatement. But this thoroughly fits with the piece having been written in 1918, amid personal bereavement and international trauma. That intense blend of rhetoric, melancholy and lyricism can also be found in its partner works here – Walton’s Violin Sonata, written in the equally turbulent aftermath of World War II in 1947–9, around the time of the death of his partner Alice Wimborne, and Thomas Adès’s dramatic suite from his opera \u003cspan class=\"ld_italic\"\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"article-full-body\" style=\"text-align: center; font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eOther highlights in the Elgar include the way the central Romance’s initial elfin mystery warms into something profound and fully human – more elderly lovers by the fireside than will-o’-thewisp in the woods.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"article-full-body\" style=\"text-align: center; font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Adès brings fast-switching, wide-ranging colours – try the duo’s tautly mesmeric way with Ariel’s ‘Full fathom five’. And the Walton unfolds with complete naturalness, the phrasing tilting so organically between long-lined lyricism and nimble conversation. 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Bringing together music from Jamaica, Trinidad, Japan, Macedonia, France, Britain and the USA, flautist Meera Maharaj and guitarist James Girling have built a programme shaped by curiosity, connection and a shared belief in music’s power to communicate across boundaries. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAt its heart is the intimate partnership of flute and guitar, an instrumental combination whose warmth and versatility invite conversation. Alongside works written for the duo’s forces are imaginative new arrangements by Girling, expanding the repertoire and revealing fresh colours in music by William Grant Still, Olivier Messiaen and Dominique Le Gendre. The rich sonority of the alto flute adds an additional layer of colour and depth, while in Eleanor Alberga’s exuberant \u003cem\u003eAnimal Banter \u003c\/em\u003ethe duo are joined by double bassist Roberto Carrillo García. 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The closing \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100);\"\u003eGajdarsko oro (Bagpiper's Dance) \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100);\"\u003ehas a rhythmic pulse so infectious that even an organist more used to counting in four than dancing in seven found a foot tapping.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Abhaya Libre'; font-weight: 400; font-size: calc(20px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100);\"\u003eWho would have thought flute and guitar could carry a musical atlas this wide, and still sound like two friends talking quietly in the next room?'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: center; font-size: calc(18px * var(--proportional-font-size) \/ 100); line-height: 22px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/i.shgcdn.com\/b908c181-7c63-4f61-924b-229c255e9843\/\" width=\"155\" height=\"50\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: center; 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