Reviews
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Product: CD review: Beyond the Paradox
March 23, 2025
Tim De Maeseneer's major ambitions to project the tenor horn into a different sphere are fully justified with substantial release.
Product: CD review: Neoteric Ensemble: Volume 1
March 22, 2025
A joyful melange of quirkiness and serious observations from the ever inventive six-piece ensemble.
Concert: RCM Brass Band
February 15, 2025
A renewed strengthening of the historical connections between between brass banding and the Royal College of Music is impressively embossed by the current crop of performing talent.
Concert: Brighouse & Rastrick Band
January 31, 2025
Conductor David Bremner imbues the West Riding band and its performers with a fine sense of musical assuredness to close the RNCM Festival.
Concert: Cory Band
January 30, 2025
Cory draw on the real and the imagined for a substantive appearance at the RNCM Festival.
Concert: RNCM Brass Band
January 29, 2025
Ambition met with excellence as students revel in the shared spotlight with soloist David Bremner at RNCM Festival.
Concert: Black Dyke Band
January 28, 2025
There was a defined level of superlative on show as Black Dyke, David Childs and Ian Bousfield showcased their collective talents at the RNCM Festival
Concert: Tredegar Band
January 27, 2025
Works demanding of considerable thoughtfulness are enhanced in musical stature by Ian Porthouse and Ben Goldscheider at RNCM Festival.
Concert: Athena Brass Band
January 26, 2025
Jessica Sneeringer and her band slay more than a few outdated attitudes and pre-conceptions with their appearance at the RNCM.
Concert: Foden's Band
January 25, 2025
Glories of myth, nature and exploration open the RNCM International Brass Band Festival
Concert: Grimethorpe Colliery Band
January 24, 2025
New season entertainment quality brought to Grimsby by Yorkshire favourite
Product: Music review: Little Suite (Trevor Duncan arr. Phil Lawrence)
January 12, 2025
Trevor Duncan's perfect example of light music craftsmanship recalls an age and style of composition that deserves to be brought back into the concert spotlight.
Product: CD review: Resurget Cineribus
January 4, 2025
Five Lakes Silver build on contesting success with a release of bold confidence under MD, Christopher Ward.
Product: LP review: Concerto
January 2, 2025
John Foster Black Dyke Mills Band
Conductor: Major Peter Parkes
Soloists: Robert Childs, Norman Law, Philip Shaw, Sandy Smith, Roger Webster
Chandos Recordings: BBRD 1037
Product: CD review: Joyfully!
December 11, 2024
The ever inventive Duo GIOVIVO duo of Fabian Bloch and Muriel Zeiter bring a very particular inventiveness to their advent calendar of festive carols and tunes.
Product: CD review: Elysian Fields
December 10, 2024
Black Dyke and Jacob Vilhelm Larson explore the myths and legends of ancient Greece to the majesty of Mahler and nature with music very much of our times.
Product: CD review: Violet Volume 2
December 9, 2024
Brass Band Willebroek presents a potent testament to the enduring excellence of their musical partnership with MD Frans Violet.
Book review: So Written to After-Times
December 7, 2024
A compelling compendium of correspondence reveals a fascinating self-portrait of composer John McCabe.
Product: CD review: John Rutter — Brass at Christmas
December 3, 2024
A festive partnership between Black Dyke Band and Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus endorses the appeal of one the world's leading choral composers.
Product: CD review: Another World: The Music of Dorothy Gates
December 1, 2024
A substantive talent reveals beliefs, reflections and explorations with Brighouse & Rastrick, Isobel Daws, Niall Keatley and Onyx Brass.
