Discs of Cheryl's Music
The Whole Earth Dances
September 2020
Chamber Works
"Covering nearly two decades of composition, the fifth and final Champs Hill release devoted to the music of Cheryl Frances-Hoad focuses on her works for chamber forces. A wide variety of influences lie behind the featured pieces, suggesting an open-mindedness and curiosity that keeps the material enterprising and fresh." Paul Conway, Musical Opinion
Magic Lantern Tales
November 2018
A collection of songs set to texts by Ian McMillan, Andrew Motion, Kei Miller, Kate Wakeling, Tamsin Collison and Stuart Murray.
"The album title is taken from the opening cycle on World War One poems by Ian McMillan, in which the composer follows a well-trodden English path, but with her own highly persuasive contemporary language." Jessica Duchen,
BBC Music Magazine
Even You Song
December 2017
An Evensong-inspired work for choir and organ
"As ever, Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s music is frequently challenging, always original and sometimes deeply moving. The whole undertaking seems to have been an unqualified success, and I wholeheartedly commend this disc to one and all."
Richard Hanlon,
MusicWeb International
Stolen Rhythm
June 2017
Chamber Orchestral and Chamber Works
"Frances-Hoad’s implicit trust in the expressive power of her melodic invention and harmonic thinking is paramount...That may seem to be an old-fashioned approach, but nothing in Frances-Hoad’s music ever sounds secondhand."
Andrew Clements, The Guardian
You Promised Me Everything
July 2014
Vocal and Choral Works
"Someone should commission a music theatre piece from Cheryl Frances Hoad: this disc reveals a dramatic instinct straining at the leash..."
Helen Wallace,
BBC Music Magazine
The Glory Tree
May 2011
Chamber Works
"Frances-Hoad is a remarkable talent. This retrospective of her chamber works is like a declaration of faith in the eternal verities of composition. Traditional skilfulness does not preclude originality and, indeed, audacity."
Paul Driver, The Sunday Times
Other discs featuring Cheryl's music
Christmas
November 2019
Works for vocal ensemble performed by The Gesualdo Six, featuring Frances-Hoad's The Promised Light of Life.
Origins
September 2019
Works for solo piano and piano and orchestra, including Frances-Hoad's piano concerto Between the Skies, the River and the Hills
So Many Stars
February 2019
Works for Violin and Piano performed by Fenella Humphreys and Nicola Eimer, featuring Frances-Hoad's Sonatina.
Bass Clarinet and Friends
September 2018
Works for Bass Clarinet and other instruments, featuring Frances-Hoad's How to Win an Election for mezzo soprano and bass clarinet, performed by Alison Wells and Ian Mitchell.
Sixteen Contemporary
Love Songs
June 2018
Works for solo piano performed by William Howard, featuring Frances-Hoad's Love Song for Dusty.
The Silver Stars at Play:
Contemporary Christmas Carols
December 2017
Christmas Carols performed by the Kantos Chamber Choir, featuring Frances-Hoad's This Time is Born a Child.
Kol Nidrei: Elegy for Pamela
November 2017
Works for string quartet performed by the Wihan Quartet, featuring Frances-Hoad's Invocatio.
Music for the
Queen of Heaven
October 2017
Works for vocal ensemble performed by the Marian Consort, featuring Frances-Hoad's Gaude et Laetare.
Flux
May 2017
Chamber and Chamber Orchestral works, featuring Frances-Hoad's
The Madness Industry.
Cloths of Heaven
February 2017
Choral works performed by Sansara, featuring Frances-Hoad's
Oh come, let us sing unto the Lord.
The Franklin Effect
October 2016
Works for vocal quartet performed by Electric Voice Theatre, featuring Frances-Hoad's Photo 51.
Bach2the Future
October 2015
Works for solo violin performed by Fenella Humphreys, featuring Frances-Hoad
Suite No. 1.
Love Said to Me
September 2014
Works for soprano and piano performed by Caroline MacPhie and Joseph Middleton, featuring Frances-Hoad's
Two Shakespeare Songs.
Dream Rotation
August 2014
Works for solo piano performed by Natalie Bleicher, featuring Frances-Hoad's
Song Without Words.
Speak Now
November 2013
Works for tenor saxophone performed by Matt London, featuring Frances-Hoad's Sarcanthus.
Grieg: Piano Works
September 2013
Grieg Piano works performed by Ivana Gavric, featuring Frances-Hoad's Contemplation (Homage to Grieg).
The Long Way Home
October 2012
Works for piano trio performed by the Lawson Trio, featuring Frances-Hoad's
Five Rackets for Trio Relay for double piano trio (with pupils from Chetham's School of Music).