"It was absolutely wonderful: the sincerity with which you played the first movement of the Beethoven - and the virtuosity with which you played the last!"
audience member
Principal recordings
- 2023 Francis Routh Music for Violoncello and Piano
- Tom Pickles and I play Francis Routh's two sonatas for 'cello and piano, each of us also contributing a solo sonata
[Available on a Redcliffe Recordings CD from this page of the Francis Routh website]
- 2022 Serenade
- I play organ arrangements of three pieces on this celebration of the work of Ralph Vaughan Williams, and also the Suite for Four Hands on One Pianoforte with Lynn Arnold
[Available on Albion Records CD from this page of the Ralph Vaughan Williams website]
- 2022 A London Symphony
- William Walton's A London Symphony, Elizabeth Maconchy's Preludio, Fugato e Finale and Gerald Finzi's Eclogue, performed with Lynn Arnold
[Available on Albion Records CD from this page of the Ralph Vaughan Williams website]
- 2021 Works for Piano Duet
- William Walton's Symphony No 1 and Crown Imperial and Ralph Vaughan Williams's Suite for Four Hands, performed with Lynn Arnold
[Available on Albion Records CD from this page of the Ralph Vaughan Williams website]
- 2021 Double Bass Classics
- Works by Schubert, Mišek and Glière, performed with Tony Alcock
[Available on CD from Tony Alcock's website]
- 2019 Magnifical and Mighty
- I accompany works by Edward Elgar and Benjamin Britten, sung by the Choir of Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon
[Available on CD from Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon]
- 2017 Subito
- Virtuoso music for violin and piano, performed with Julia Hwang.
Review by MusicWeb International
[Available on CD from Signum Classics]
- 2016 The Romantic Flute
- Anne Allen and I perform a disc of relaxing popular flute repertoire, including a couple of my own compositions (Dance and Love Song)
[Available on CD from Birnam CDs
or by emailing Anne via her website; and on CD or as a download from
Amazon.com,
Amazon.co.uk and iTunes;
and on Spotify]
- 2014 Spire - Live in Bergen
- Highlights from the Spire concert in November 2013, in Bergen, Norway. Please note that this recording is available only as a cassette
[Available from the Touch Shop]
- 2014 The Story Tenor
- Twenty-four songs by the English composer Gerald Finzi, recorded in 2013 with John Beaumont
[Available from the Touch Shop and iTunes]
- 2011 On Christmas Night 2
- A selection of popular Christmas carols, performed with Armonico Consort under their director Christopher Monks
[Available from Armonico Consort]
- 2010 24 Preludes for Piano - The Well Tempered Pianist
- A CD release of Charles's world premiere recording of Francis Routh's major work 24 Preludes for Piano, recorded under the composer's supervision.
As a free taster, four of the preludes can be played at the Redcliffe Recordings website
[Redcliffe Recordings: RR021 - available from Francis Routh's website]
- 2008 Spire Live - Fundamentalis
- A 2 LP (only) set of live tracks recorded at Spire events in 2005 and 2006:
Charles plays Giacinto Scelsi's mesmeric In Nomine Lucis, recorded at a concert in Brussels Cathedral in May 2006
(with other performances by Marcus Davidson, B J Nilsen, Philip Jeck and Christian Fennesz)
[Touch: Tone 28 - available from TouchShop]
- 2005 Spire Live in Geneva Cathedral St Pierre
- A 2 CD set of the first concert of the Spire organ and electronics project:
Charles plays four organ solo pieces by Marcus Davidson, André Jolivet and Liana Alexandra
(with other performances by Marcus Davidson, B J Nilsen, Philip Jeck and Christian Fennesz).
Charles has written some notes from his researches on performing Jolivet's Hymne a l'Univers here
[Touch: Tone 21 - available from TouchShop]
- 2004 Choral Music of Antón García Abril
- With Coro Cervantes and London Symphony Orchestra Strings, conducted by Carlos Fernández Aransay, and recorded under the composer's supervision
[Available from Coro Cervantes Shop]
- 2003 Oratio: 20th Century Sacred Music from Spain & Latin America
- Seventeen pieces of 20th century Spanish organ music and choral works, sung by Coro Cervantes,
under the direction of Carlos Fernández Aransay
[Guild: GMCD 7266 - available from GuildMusic Shop]
- 2001 Great European Organs, No 65
- Organ music by André Jolivet, Darius Milhaud and other French composers, played on the Cavaillé-Coll organ of La Madeleine, Paris.
Charles has written some notes from his researches on performing Jolivet's Hymne a l'Univers here, Cinq Interludes here and Mandala here
[Priory: PRCD 772 - available from Priory Records and TouchShop]
- 1994 Arnold Bax: Viola and Piano Music
- Works for piano solo and for viola and piano (with Richard Crabtree)
[Olympia: OCD 454 - now deleted, but may be available through Amazon]
Compositions
- 2023 Swirls
- For two alto saxophones
[Unpublished]
- 2016 Dance and Love Song on The Romantic Flute
- Two of my compositions are included on Anne Allen's disc of popular flute repertoire
[Available on CD from Birnam CDs
or by emailing Anne via her website; and on CD or as a download from
Amazon.com,
Amazon.co.uk and iTunes;
and on Spotify]
- 2006 Signs of the Zodiac
- Fourteen pieces for flute and piano (intermediate standard:
grades 3 - 5).
Part of Schott's Elena Durán collection.
Includes CD
[ISBN 1-902455-36-3; ISMN M-2201-2460-0 - available from Schott Music]
- 1994-2007
- Introits for the Church's Year
[Unpublished]
- 1985-1995
- Various parody compositions for the Miles and Millner Show, many of them broadcast on BBC Radio 4, with repeats on BBC 7
[Unpublished]
Book
- 1989 The Organs and Organists of the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick
Written while Assistant Director of Music to the Parish of Warwick, in collaboration with Alan Baker
[pp. 56; inc photos & line drawings]
[Available from St Mary's Church; 21 Church St, Warwick CV34 4AB; 01926 403940]
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