British music for strings V (2026)

"This series of recordings, now reaching Volume 5, only serves to confirm the extraordinary extent and tradition of 20th-century British string music, and hats off to Douglas Bostock and the Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim for their stalwart efforts to shine a light on some hidden gems in the repertoire. This polished, beautifully presented album – one I think very much for the connoisseur – ends with William Mathias’s triptych for strings, the Prelude, Aria and Finale, first performed by the Boyd Neel Orchestra in May 1964 at the Caerphilly Arts Festival. The focus of the work is the poignant, lyrical Aria, whose searing meditative lines and pulsating tension provide repose between the two outer, more rhythmically dynamic movements." (Gramophone)

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