FAVONIUS

FAVONIUS is the ‘light’ arm of EM Records, specialising in music by British composers, yet in a style that which could not be described as ‘purely classical’. This will, in due course, encompass everything from film and light music to folk music and Jazz.

 

As with all discs that EM Records issues, each FAVONIUS disc will bear at least one World Première recording.

 

Our first FAVONIUS disc features the sacred music of the composer Steven Faux, a celebrated writer of music for documentaries. ‘In a Clear Voice’ combines the worlds of film music and sacred classical music with a more popular feel and folk-song style.

CATALOGUE

       

EMR F CD001

STEVEN FAUX: IN A CLEAR VOICE
Bath Philharmonia
Bath Camerata
Jason Thornton (cond.)

       
         

 

 

 

REVIEWS
Beautifully shaped by Benjamin Frith... Beguiling sounds, graced by the tawny richness and unexaggerated line of Richard Jenkinson’s cello playing... The sense of purpose and sureness of line of Ian Venables’ music is pure oxygen.
EMR CD31 | BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
Exquisitely rewarding... Ravishing accounts.
EMR CD029 | CHOIR AND ORGAN
This is music of great beauty and integrity and the performances fully do it justice. It would be criminal to let it pass you by.

EMR CD028 | INTERNATIONAL
RECORD REVIEW

The Bridge Quartet approach these pieces with a sympathetic and insightful warmth, and confirm their ambassadorial credentials for British chamber music. A lovely, radiant disc.
EMR CD025 | Gramophone
Duncan Honeybourne’s playing is astonishingly affectionate, yet never saccharine... Honeybourne plays with suave confidence.
EMR CD024 | INTERNATIONAL PIANO
Rupert Marshall-Luck is an ideal interpreter: generously but not effusively lyrical; agile and athletic... The warm, folk-song like slow movement is at times almost painfully beautiful, with a shimmering pastoral central section... Marshall-Luck is, again, indefatigable and keenly picks up on the work’s melancholic strain.  Finely recorded and with comprehensive booklet notes, this is a must for fans of 20th-century English repertoire.
EMR CD023 | THE STRAD