Classical Music
Three English composers who were unfashionably lyrical last century delight us now. Michael Hurd’s sonata for violin and piano and five piano preludes have beguiling warmth, while Robin Milford’s music echoes his inner melancholy. But it is Dick Blackford’s recorder concerto that takes the instrument beyond the ‘merrie England’ cliché.
—Phillip Sommerich
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