Recorder Concertos on CD

3rd July 2003

This unusual and outstanding disk features no fewer than eight world-premiere recordings, including those works by Kenneth Leighton and John McCabe. Fabulously performed by the renowned recorder player John Turner, harpsichordist Keith Elcombe and the Royal Ballet Sinfonia under Gavin Sutherland, this CD was described in Fanfare as “…fresh and vibrant, poised and erudite…highly recommended.”

“This is one of those rare releases which excels at all levels. John Turner, one of today’s foremost recorder virtuosos, plays with a gloriously rounded, ‘woody’ sound…Kenneth Leighton’s Concerto for recorder and harpsichord, composed for Turner in 1982-83, is made of sterner stuff, playing on timbral contrasts between the two solo instruments, and culminating in a haunting Elegy of Brittenesque intensity.
…John McCabe’s Domestic Life is an easily assimilated four minutes of charming innocence.
(Julian Haylock, International Record Review Dec 2002 – Jan 2003)