Gemma Rosefield, Benjamin Nabarro, Rowan Pierce, BBC Philharmonic, George Vass by Vlad Bourceanu (donate, via PayPal) This album was released on 19 September 2025, and is dedicated (as its title suggests) to the concerti of Henriëtte Bosmans. YOUTUBE ALBUM LINK From the first note of her Poème for Cello and Orchestra, I was struck by its passionate, late Romantic sound … in the vein of Ernest Chausson and perhaps even Eugène Ysaÿe. Gemma Rosefield, the cello soloist here, displayed incredibly...
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The 50th lunchtime concert season at St. John’s Church, Harrow, launched today (Thursday, 25 September 2025, at 12:30) with its first recital, given by Buck Brass. The brass trio (Katie Lodge, trumpet; Timothy Ellis, French horn; Richard Buck, trombone) started their programme with Be Be Three by Steven Verhelst, a modern Belgian composer, who wrote this piece in four movements especially for this group. During the first part of the piece, I felt that the players were still adjusting to the...
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Nelson Goerner, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, Kazuki Yamada by Vlad Bourceanu I intend this article to be the first of a series of recommendations of newly-released recordings. I will carefully pick one newly-released album which I think is worth listening to (hoping to do so once a week), and try to explain why I think that is. — — — — — — — — — — — — — This first week’s choice was a particularly difficult one. There were many new releases, which shall remain un-named, competing...
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by Vlad Bourceanu The church of St. John the Baptist, Sheepcote Road, Harrow, HA1 2JE, is entering its 50th season of fortnightly lunchtime concerts (having, however, missed a season in 2020–2021). The first concert of the new season will take place on Thursday, September 25th, 2025, at 12:30 p.m., featuring brass trio Buck Brass, performing music from a large selection of composers, including Arcangelo Corelli, Joseph Haydn, Thomas Adams, and traditional works such as Amazing Grace, in an...
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