This is English music proclaiming its pedigree and perhaps asserting a national identity that the post-1945 generation of composers had rediscovered, first with Purcell and then in the High English Renaissance. Nicholas Maw’s ‘Six Interiors’ recorded here for the first time by Philip Landgridge and Stephen Marchionda complements Britten’s ‘Songs from the Chinese’ in this thoughtfully created recital.
Impeccable artistry in the songs and eloquence in the guitar solos.