Songs to the Siren

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Anna Meredith

4th March 2016🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Scot composer and musician Anna Meredith combines electronica with classical instruments to produce music that has connections to past yet which still sounds fresh and modern.

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Symphony of Sorrowful Songs

David Zinman, Dawn Upshaw & London Sinfionetta

1992🇵🇱

I’m definitely not an aficionado of classical music, so it’s probably inevitable that my tastes in contemporary classical are at the more populist end of the scale, but this is a beautiful, emotional, piece. You probably wouldn’t file it under “easy listening”, though.

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