William Alwyn's musical style is in the main of a romantic nature firmly grounded in tonality, notwithstanding some forays into modernity, calling on dissonance and freedom of form when he felt the...
Completing their acclaimed survey of Tippett' string quartets, the young British quartet which has taken his name as their own here presents the composer' Third and Fifth String Quartets.
?Erich Wolfgang Korngold wrote a significant body of chamber music (the Piano Trio and String Sextet are on Naxos 8.574008). His three String Quartets reflect differing periods of composition. The...
Sir John Manduell (1928-2017) was a pivotal figure in British music - as composer, BBC producer, first principal of the Northern Royal College of Music and founder of the European Opera Centre...