COMPOSERS: Turnbull
LABELS: Somm
WORKS: Songs and Partsongs
PERFORMER: Nancy Argenta (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone), Robin Bowman (piano); Joyful Company of Singers/Peter Broadbent
CATALOGUE NO: SOMMCD 020
Born in Newcastle in 1902, Percy Turnbull shone as a composer at the Royal College of Music, but settled into a life of piano-teaching. This collection of his modest, neatly turned songs and partsongs, beautifully performed, makes a graceful centenary tribute.
Anthony Burton