Recordings
Onyx gets Romantic
Onyx was joined by some of the best brass players around for a few days last month, recording a new CD of brass music from the Romantic period. The CD, to be released by Meridian includes new arrangements of chorale preludes and piano pieces by Brahms, Chopin’s Prelude no. 12 in C minor, and Janacek’s…
A Very Onyx Christmas
There’s a lot of brass music around at Christmas, but we think no-one does it quite so classily as Onyx. Last Friday they played live on Radio 3 with the BBC Singers and their conductor Ben Parry. The concert of Christmas music old and new, including a couple of solo items from Onyx themselves, is…
“A song of Guadeloupe “ by Torbjorn Hultmark
Over the Summer, we recorded a piece by our good friend and colleague Torbjorn Hultmark. It is called A song of Guadeloupe and is very beautifully written indeed. We will certainly be featuring it in future OB programmes. Here is A link to the recording. https://soundcloud.com/torbjorn-hultmark/hultmark-a-song-of-guadelupe More of Torbjorn’s music can be heard on his…
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
New CD Released!
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”…