Warlock
Philip Heseltine is such a figure of exotic contradictions, it is often hard to separate his weird occult enthusiasms from his amiable music, written using the pseudonym Peter Warlock…
Royer – Les Talens Lyriques
This is one of those joyous discoveries that make CD collecting such fun. Pancrace Royer (1703 – 55) is, frankly, a composer of whom no-one outside French baroque academia has ever heard…
Beethoven – Piano Sonatas
This is an intelligent survey of the three main periods of Beethoven’s style, ranging from 1798 to 1821, but more importantly looking at how Romanticism developed out of the classical period…