CDs to give and to receive…

19th November 2004

The December issue of Grammophone has named several recordings of Chester and Novello works as their Critics' Choices for Christmas gifts to give and to receive.

Critics such as Andrew Achenbach, Nalen Anthoni, Peter Dickinson, Richard Osborne, Guy Rickards, John Steane and Arnold Whittall have chosen recordings of Peter Maxwell Davies' Naxos Quartets 1 & 2, Robert Simpson's Symphony No. 11, Lennox Berkeley's A Dinner Engagement, Kenneth Leighton's Sacred Choral Music, and John McCabe's Tenebrae.

Click on any of the links above to read what each critic wrote about their chosen stocking filler.