Llŷr Williams reviews

The remarkable listening experience here comes not just from William Mathias’s music alone, for all its enduring qualities, but from the combination of this and his own piano-playing. Fluent pianists are of course not rare in the composing world. Mathias’s performance of the world premiere of his Third Concerto, recorded at the 1968 Swansea Festival, shows that his artistry was on a totally different level from this.