Review: Anthony Burgess’s Mr. W.S. – Ballet Suite for Orchestra

Christine Lee Gengaro, author of ‘Listening to Stanley Kubrick: the music in his films’ reviews the newly released album of Anthony Burgess’s orchestral work, ‘Mr. W.S.’

Mr W.S. – A Ballet on the Career of William Shakespeare

In May 2016 the first recording of Anthony Burgess’s orchestral music will be released on the Naxos label. Here Paul Phillips, Music Advisor to the Burgess Foundation, writes about each of the pieces on the forthcoming CD.