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Colin Matthews: Seascapes album review – the songs teem with detail

Soprano Claire Booth and baritone Marcus Farnsworth celebrate the influential British composer’s kaleidoscopic soundworld with this collection of four song cycles

The Guardian - UK · May 28

The Passion of Mary Magdalene review – Tansy Davies’s score is taut and intriguing

John Butt’s Dunedin Consort premiered Davies’s new Passion: a startlingly sensual meditation with a sense of ritual – and an electric guitar hidden amid the baroque instrumentation

The Guardian - UK · Mar 25

A Song on the End of World review – Pott’s powerful oratorio returns to Three Choirs festival

Francis Pott’s compelling 1999 work was voted audience’s favourite festival premiere and so won a second performance at this year’s event. Its emphasis on war and human destruction feels even more urgent

The Guardian - UK · Jul 26, 2023