Frances-Hoad: The Glory Tree; The Ogre Lover; Melancholia, etc – review

Lendvai String Trio/London Mozart Trio/Kreisler Ensemble (Champs Hill)Now in her early 30s, Cheryl Frances-Hoad studied composition at Cambridge with Robin Holloway and at King's College London with George Benjamin among others, but this collection of her chamber works from the last decade or so suggests that it's Holloway's nonpartisan eclecticism, rather than Benjamin's more strait-laced modernism, that has left the deeper imprint on her own music. There's something engagingly freewheeling ab...

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