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Sunday 8 May 2016

CD: Great Trombone Concertos

Christopher Thomas reviews Jacques Mauger’s re-released Great Trombone Concertos – an iconic disc amongst trombonists. This fourth CD devised by Jacques Mauger has a suave Gallic elegance that characterises the soloists’ immensely refined performances of this collection of four concertos for the trombone, all despatched with a potent combination of panache and...read more

Sunday 8 May 2016

Music: Elemental

Grimethorpe Colliery Band’s Young Composer in Residence, Daniel Hall, reviews a recent release from Wright and Round Elemental is an exhilarating new composition that was written to open the Cory Band's winning 2015 Brass in Concert programme. Based upon the final words of the Sicilian philosopher Empedocles, the music explores the sound worlds...read more