
There’s nothing like Christmas to bring out a composer’s more unapologetically clever and enthusiastically indulgent, prodigiously inventive ideas, in apparent realization of childhood’s most extravagant
These things are almost always pleasant–after all, if there’s one thing English composers have done well since the beginning of time it is to write
If I described the tone of a classical tuba player as “flubbery”, would you know what I meant? James Gourley’s initial attacks can be mushy,
Unlike most collections of “British light music”, which allow American listeners to discover gems written by relatively unknown composers, this one contains some delightful trifles
The Royal Ballet Sinfonia is making a specialty of recording British Light Music, having released a previous CD of music from this genre on ASV,