Recordings

Solo

A performance of Frank Bridge’s Scherzo for cello and piano, with Craig White on piano. This piece really satisfying to play and has a real playful, cheeky character which I enjoy attempting to inhabit. I learned it during a difficult period of mental health, and I remember it making me feel so much more free as I explored colours and shapes within its structure.

Walton is probably my favourite composer of all time! There’s something about the harmony and risk within his distinctive musical voice that captures me. I am especially interested in his choral music, but his cello concerto is very difficult to get ‘sick’ of. I have found it quite easy to forget, due to it being so complex and repetitive with slight variation. I think I will return to this piece again and again because it really speaks to me like to other.

What can I possibly say about Bach? Only that learning and performing the Bach Cello Suites is one of the most complex, confusing, liberating and frustrating experiences of my musical career. Lifelong and imperfect, our instrument will grapple with this great composer as we work through interpreting his dances until, ultimately, we choose to let go.