BRITISH COMPOSERS PREMIERE COLLECTIONS Volume 2

MAURICE BLOWER : HORN CONCERTO
MAURICE BLOWER : ECLOGUE for Horn and Strings
FREDERICK KELLY : SERENADE FOR FLUTE with Horn, Harp, and Strings op. 7
ROBIN MILFORD : SUITE for Oboe and Strings
WILLIAM GAZE COOPER : CONCERTINO for Oboe and Strings
(68.14)
Artists:
José Garcia Gutiérrez (Horn)
Rebecca Hall (Flute)
John McDonough (Oboe)
Malta Philharmonic Orchestra,
Conductor: Michael Laus

All recordings are World Premieres
Digital recordings made in 2011

See the full review on www.musicweb-international.com, 16 November 2011.
"British Composers Premiere Collections"
Blower's Eclogue…"A great discovery"
Blower's Horn Concerto…"romantically indulgent, brilliant and straussianly florid…
a showpiece to set alongside the Strauss 1st Horn Concerto... Gutiérrez is an exemplary exponent"
Kelly's Serenade…"silvery neo-classical delight… Rebecca Hall lends the work a fragile humility
as well as winged fantasy"
Milford's Suite…"gracious countenance, unhurried beauty…confident dignity in the steady
sensitivity of John McDonough… Laus imparts a real passion to the strings"
William Gaze Cooper's Concertino…"the melodic interest is high…same latitude and longitude as
the troubadour Arnold's oboe concerto and touching
Sibelius's moist gentle string writing"
(RB)
Volumes 3 and 4 follow in December 2011