Browse: Foulds (composer)

Sakari Oramo programmed plenty of 20th-century British music during his Birmingham tenure, a policy which bore spectacular fruit with this enterprising disc devoted to Manchester-born John Foulds.... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

There are four unequivocal masterpieces for piano and orchestra in English 20th-century music: Bax's Winter Legends, Frank Bridge's Phantasm and the two works recorded here.
Until the appearance... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

This most welcome second volume of British overtures serves to accentuate the sheer diversity of works this country produced in the genre between the 1890s and the 1940s and, moreover, where... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2016 More…

The Watkins brothers, Paul and Huw, buckle down to their task with sympathy and panache...The Bantock trinket is conveyed with passion, but it's left to the Foulds, almost outlandishly exuberant,... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Peter Donohoe is a powerfully committed soloist, and there'll be moments in the second movement particularly which will have you catching your breath, when you realise that Foulds is already... — Andrew McGregor, bbc.co.uk, 15th August 2006 More…

Always a spirited champion of British repertoire, Raphael Wallfisch gives the piece his considerable all, with Martin Yates and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra sweeping happily alongside...Wallfisch's... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…