Grace Williams - Trumpet concerto, Carillons etc.

"...[a] special, and potentially disconcerting, feature of Williams’s work is the confrontation it seems to relish between modest forms and richly-scored textures which – if only briefly – open up unexpectedly grand vistas. Even... See more » "...[a] special, and potentially disconcerting, feature of Williams’s work is the confrontation it seems to relish between modest forms and richly-scored textures which – if only briefly – open up unexpectedly grand vistas. Even in a work as emotionally straightforward as the Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes a full-throated romanticism emerges which can seem incongruous in an age that prefers to treat such material more sceptically… In the sphere of instrumental music Williams never surpassed the polished yet strongly felt Sea Sketches in which …one hears echoes of her friend Benjamin Britten’s Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge" Arnold Wittall, Gramophone See less »

Label: Lyrita Copyright: 1995 Lyrita Recorded Edition, England Catalogue number: SRCD.323 UPC/EAN: 5020926032324 Format: CD Analogue / Digital recording: ADD Number of discs: 1 Total playing time: 69.45 Price: £ 14.99 (+ postage &...