Browse: Hellawell (composer)

There's a 20-minute orchestral piece, Wild Flow, but the others are chamber-scaled. The title piece, a melodrama to poems about the plight of migrants, read by the author Sinéad Morrissey, does,... — Sunday Times, 17th May 2020 More…

Definitive performances from the Schubert Ensemble, beautifully recorded. — The Strad More…

Irvine responds to each piece with the same sincerity, imagination and technical assurance; lovely playing, captured in warm, natural sound. A well-produced document of a very worthwhile project. — Gramophone Magazine, October 2016 More…

Not just a collection of clarinet works, but a well-devised retrospective of British music over three decades. Bennett's virtuoso, theatrical Scena III and Wood's engrossing, symphonic Paraphrase,... — Gramophone Magazine More…

The performances do the music proud, not least the limpidly precise pianism of Mary Dullea and soulful clarinet-playing of Robert Plane, while the sound has a clarity and perspective equally... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012 More…

Sixteen Contemporary Love Songs is a gorgeous collection, and it’s beautifully played here…There’s something for all tastes, from Howard Skempton’s spare solitary Highland Song to the expansive... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

A tricksy title, but this is an interesting, diverse programme…[Humphreys] shapes the music with skill, and sometimes with humour: I especially enjoyed the almost throaway ending to the Gavotte... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2015 More…