Grace Williams - Chamber Works

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London Chamber Ensemble/Mitchell
(Naxos)
Madeleine Mitchell and the LCE have recorded six unpublished chamber works by the 20th-century composer. It’s a fascinating listen

Grace Williams was far from alone as a composer in being almost cripplingly self-critical, but the verdict she scribbled on several of her chamber music manuscripts when she revisited them, aged 51 – “not worth performing” – has been taken too literally, and for too long.