The Coral Sea: new music for soprano saxophone and piano

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The Coral Sea: new music for soprano saxophone and pianoSUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO A photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe and the playing style of Busonis favourite clarinettist are just two of the diverse inspirations behind these six recent British works, which are linked by their composers relationship to popular music. From the pounding muscularity of Graham Fitkin to the blues drenched melancholy of Mark Anthony Turnage, Edinburgh duo Sue McKenzie and Ingrid Sawers bring stylistic authority and

vibrato-free sound from their young singers

Beamish's evocative 'Horizon' immediately draws this listener to the coast where an eerie wind is blowing along the beach as one looks out on to the expansive landscapes that the composer wants us to imagine

"Nicholas judges expertly the variety of colours in his performance

Recording venue: St Mary's Broughton St

there is compelling charm in this music that stems from Conner’s own self-belief in her self-confessed passions"

in which the ‘abundance of technical means allows the heart to overflow freely’

Peter Phillips and Benjamin Nicholas elicit high levels of technical and expressive achievement from their student charges

Album ID: DCD34103

Russian Piano Works for Four Hands

when it is not weighed down by his cleverness

led by clarinettist Kate Romano (who also contributes the thoughtful booklet essay)

Performers Gawain Glenton and Silas Wollston explore works by the international set who found employment in and around the famous St Mark’s Cathedral

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