Onyx Brass come alive as responsive individuals most readily in the Shostakovich. The G major fugue is supremely virtuoso, the E minor resplendent and dramatic, the D major questing and deft. And then comes the urgency of the G sharp minor, the multi-layered A flat and the orchestrally-inspired struggle of the D minor (marked resonancesof the Fifth Symphony in its new guise) – all delivered with a liberated and characterful imagination…The real achievement, however, is the Shostakovich, already downloaded on my iPod as some of the most thrilling chamber brass-playing of its kind.
Gramophone on Fugue, Sept 2008
We’re pleased to announce the release of our début Christmas recording, “Canite Tuba”, or “Sound the Trumpet” from Resonus Classics, which features settings of well-loved English carols by Holst, tranquil motets from Monteverdi, Palestrina, Parsons and Schütz, and arrangements from some of the best Christmas works from across Europe, including Berlioz’s 1854 Oratorio “L’enfance du Christ”…
“Time to Time” has just been released on Meridian records. Music by the American masters (Ives, Copland, Barber) and new British voices (Macrae, Duddell and Jackson). You can buy it from the usual places, or just follow this link. We are really chuffed with it, and hope you will be too
