AUDIO PROGRAMME NOTES

In its audio programme notes, EM Records is proud to present an exciting new facet of its work. These presentations provide backgrounds to some of the works featured on our discs and an extra dimension is added by the musical illustrations taken from the recordings themselves. Written by the artists, these programme notes offer in-depth and personal interpretations of the works with which they have been so involved.

 

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EMR CD011

In this audio programme note, written and presented by the violinist Rupert Marshall-Luck, the history of Gurney’s Violin Sonata in E-flat is explored and the impact of the composer’s personal circumstances on the work’s character described. Illustrated with extracts from the recording, the short programme offers listeners an invaluable guide to this highly individual and emotionally intense Sonata.
Sunlight and Clouds: Exploring Ivor Gurney’s Violin Sonata (10:00)
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REVIEWS
Beautifully shaped by Benjamin Frith... Beguiling sounds, graced by the tawny richness and unexaggerated line of Richard Jenkinson’s cello playing... The sense of purpose and sureness of line of Ian Venables’ music is pure oxygen.
EMR CD31 | BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
Exquisitely rewarding... Ravishing accounts.
EMR CD029 | CHOIR AND ORGAN
This is music of great beauty and integrity and the performances fully do it justice. It would be criminal to let it pass you by.

EMR CD028 | INTERNATIONAL
RECORD REVIEW

The Bridge Quartet approach these pieces with a sympathetic and insightful warmth, and confirm their ambassadorial credentials for British chamber music. A lovely, radiant disc.
EMR CD025 | Gramophone
Duncan Honeybourne’s playing is astonishingly affectionate, yet never saccharine... Honeybourne plays with suave confidence.
EMR CD024 | INTERNATIONAL PIANO
Rupert Marshall-Luck is an ideal interpreter: generously but not effusively lyrical; agile and athletic... The warm, folk-song like slow movement is at times almost painfully beautiful, with a shimmering pastoral central section... Marshall-Luck is, again, indefatigable and keenly picks up on the work’s melancholic strain.  Finely recorded and with comprehensive booklet notes, this is a must for fans of 20th-century English repertoire.
EMR CD023 | THE STRAD