A disc featuring works for solo violin by contemporary composers Richard Blackford, Richard Pantcheff and Joseph Phibbs is scheduled for release in early Autumn on the label EM Records. Phibbs’s effervescent, evocative and colourful Suite for Solo Violin is presented alongside Pantcheff’s To Autumn — a celebration for reciter and violin of poets including Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Clare, John Keats and Robert Louis Stevenson — and Blackford’s Dreams and Spells : an interpretation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. For the Blackford and the Pantcheff, Rupert is joined on the recording by his wife, Em Marshall-Luck, Director of The English Music Festival.

A new recording with the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by John Andrews, the celebrated baritone Roderick Williams and Rupert Marshall-Luck has recently been released by EM Records. The recording includes music by Gustav Holst, Norman O’Neill, Roger Quilter and Frederick Delius, as well as Rupert’s own orchestration of Havergal Brian’s Legend which was commissioned by the Havergal Brian Society. More details and audio extracts are available on this page; and the disc may be purchased directly from EM Records.

Rupert Marshall-Luck’s scholarly-critical edition of Edward Elgar’s Serenade for Strings, op. 20, has recently been published by G. Henle Verlag. The Serenade is one of Elgar’s most popular compositions and is among the most frequently played works in the string-orchestra literature. This new Henle Urtext comprises conductor’s score, a set of parts and a study edition. Full details are available on the Henle website.

Rupert discusses the new edition in an online interview with Dr Norbert Müllemann, Head of Publishing at G. Henle Verlag. The interview is now available to read on the Henle Blog: follow this link for the English-language version, and this link for the version in German.

In July 2025 Rupert will be collaborating with the South African pianist Peter Cartwright in a recording of the complete music for violin and piano by Alan Rawsthorne. Rawsthorne developed a very personal and unmistakeable harmonic language together with a markedly constructive approach to form, which may have been influenced by his early studies in architecture. As well as the masterly Sonata of 1958, this new disc will feature the two early, unpublished sonatas, written for the violinist Jessie Hinchliffe, and the delightful character piece Pierrette, which inhabits a completely different sound-world and is evidence of a versatility later revealed in Rawsthorne’s film music. Bringing early, previously unrecorded works together with those of Rawsthorne’s established repertoire will make this an important and fascinating release.

Rupert is delighted to have been invited to return to Summartónar, the composers’ festival in the Faroe Islands, in 2025. His recitals, which will take place in various venues throughout the Faroes, will include works by Faroese composers as well as one of his own compositions for solo violin. He will also be collaborating with the organist Tom Winpenny in concerts featuring British, Swedish and Faroese works for violin and organ. Further details, including dates and venues, are available on the Future Events page; and full programmes will be available early in 2025.