English Symphony Orchestra Bring Major Premiere to Americana ’18 at St John’s Smith Square
20 March, 2018 English Symphony Orchestra Bring Major Premiere to Americana ’18 at St John’s Smith Square The English Symphony Orchestra, hailed as The International Orchestra of Elgar Country, will take to the St John’s Smith Square stage on Thursday the 19th of...
Birmingham Post Feature- Philip Sawyers World Premiere
PHILIP SAWYERS WORLD PREMIERE by Christopher Morley (for classical column 8.3.18 -- images from English Symphony Orchestra) Philip Sawyers- The ESO's John McCabe Composer-in-Association Fresh from the triumphant world premiere of his Violin Concerto (reviews here and...
Birmingham Post Review- Philip Sawyers’ Violin Concerto World Premiere
"ONE is not often wowed by a new work, but Philip Sawyers’ Violin concerto—premiered here by Alexander Sitkovetsky and the English Symphony Orchestra under Kenneth Woods—really did the trick.... "...Sawyers knows how everything functions...there is so much...
An Interview with Zoë Beyers, Leader of the ESO
Q&A with Zoë Beyers, Leader of the ESO Welcome to the ESO, Zoe. What made you want to join this particular orchestra? I have always loved playing in chamber orchestras, and the ESO occupies a unique place in the musical life of Britain. It has a fundamental...
Philip Sawyers Symphony no. 3 a 2017 Gramophone Critic’s Choice Best of the Year
The Gramophone Magazine Critic's Choice list for 2017 has been announced in the December issue (available today), and we're so pleased and proud to see that our Nimbus Records recording of Philip Sawyers' Third Symphony, Songs of Loss and Regret and Fanfare has...
Krenek Piano Concertos vol. 2 named one of Forbes Magazine’s Best Classical CDs of 2017
We're pleased to report that Forbes Magazine has chose our Toccata Classics CD "Ernst Krenek- Complete Piano Concertos, Vol. Two" as one of their Best Classical Recordings of 2017. Congratulations to piano soloist Mikhail Korzhev, conductor Kenneth...
ESO Receive Two MusicWeb “Record of the Year” Selections
We are delighted to learn that two ESO recordings have been chosen among MusicWeb International's Recordings of the Year for 2017. Records of the Year are chosen by MusicWeb Critics from the over 2500 recordings reviewed on the site between December 2016 and November...
Review- Birmingham Post on Kenneth Woods’ orchestration of Brahms op. 26 and Elgar Violin Concerto with Alexander Sitkovetsky
A review of the world premiere of the final version of Kenneth Woods' orchestration of Brahms' A Major Piano Quartet, and the Elgar Violin Concerto with Alexander Sitkovetsky as heard in Cheltenham Town Hall on Tuesday the 21st of November, 2017 from the Thursday,...
MusicWeb International on Sawyers Symphony no. 3
“I have no reservations in pronouncing this a very fine work indeed and one which deserves a place in the any orchestra’s repertoire...Throughout the CD the utter commitment of the English Symphony and String orchestra and even more that of Kenneth...
Fanfare Magazine on John Joubert’s Jane Eyre
From the current (November/December) issue of Fanfare (magazine), more praise for SOMM Recordings's world-premiere recording of John Joubert - Composer's Jane Eyre "Joubert knows how to write dramatically, revealing some Bergian overtones in the ethereal woodwind...