Recordings

Cabinet of Curiosities: Wind and Piano Chamber Music

“The New London Chamber Ensemble sounds utterly at home in Woolrich’s music, shaping lines and phrases with such ease and comfort that at all times the musical surface is a thing of great beauty”…. International Record Review May 2007

The chamber music of the internationally-respected composer, John Woolrich, is both intense and private. As fellow composer and writer, Robin Holloway, has noted, “his music whispers, whirs, rustles, creaks, and shines with a gentle light, often elegiacal”. Nowhere is this more apparent than in his works for wind instruments and piano, played sensitively and passionately in this recording by the New London Chamber Ensemble with the accomplished pianist Julian Jacobson. This CD, originally conceived as a celebration of Woolrich’s 50th Birthday, also includes previously unrecorded works written especially for the New London Chamber Ensemble.

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Other recent reviews
“Woolrich’s trademark microscopic forms again beguile the ear” Gramophone August 2007

“Woolrich’s individual voice and the unerring craftsmanship with which he constructs and scores each item bind these epigrammatic movements into a cohesive whole.”
“Woolrich also knows how to pull out the stops. When he calls for something more raucous the NLCE responds with a power that belies its small forces.” BBC Music Magazine ‘Proms’ issue 2007