Britten Sinfonia
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Vaughan Williams & James Macmillan: Oboe Concertos
RecommendedNicholas Daniel (oboe & conductor), Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Nicholas Daniel (cor anglais)
Britten Sinfonia, James MacMillan
[Daniel] tends to let the tempo slacken when the harmonic pulse slows down [on the Vaughan Williams]...it's hard to complain when that leaves more space for his consistently golden tone...MacMillan... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2015, Concerto Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Contemporary Winner
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Quiet City
RecommendedAlison Balsom (trumpet), Tom Poster (piano), Nicholas Daniel (cor anglais), Britten Sinfonia, Scott Stroman
Revisiting the improvisatory practice of jazz icons with highly idiosyncratic techniques can fall flat, but Balsom and the Britten Sinfonia make it work. They are entirely idiomatic and wonderfully... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th August 2022
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Ralph Vaughan Williams: Pan's Anniversary and Other Works
William Vann, Timothy West, Samuel West, Mary Bevan, Sophie Bevan, Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Britten Sinfonia
The vernal setting of that 1905 production with its costumed actors, dancers and musicians undoubtedly cast a spell. Stripped of these visual elements, and with Vaughan Williams not quite his... — More…
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Quiet City
RecommendedAlison Balsom (trumpet), Tom Poster (piano), Nicholas Daniel (cor anglais), Britten Sinfonia, Scott Stroman
Revisiting the improvisatory practice of jazz icons with highly idiosyncratic techniques can fall flat, but Balsom and the Britten Sinfonia make it work. They are entirely idiomatic and wonderfully... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th August 2022
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This set cuts pristine interpretations of Beethoven’s early symphonies with Gerald Barry’s 21st-century zesty homage…Stone’s Beethoven swaps between falsetto and lower-range passages with impressive... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2020
2 CDs
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Very Best of English Song
RecommendedDame Janet Baker (mezzo), Gerald Moore (piano), Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Geoffrey Parsons (piano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), David Willison (piano), Ian Partridge (tenor), Janet Craxton (piano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone), Roger Vignoles...
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also recommended
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Building a Library, January 2021, Recommended orchestral version (Songs of Travel)
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Mozart: Flute & Harp Concerto in C major, K299, etc.
RecommendedKate Hill & Lucy Wakeford, Julie Andrews (bassoon)
Britten Sinfonia, Nicholas Cleobury
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Building a Library, June 2004, First Choice
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Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 7-9 & Barry: The Eternal Recurrence
Jennifer France (soprano), Christianne Stotijn (mezzo-soprano), Ed Lyon (tenor), Matthew Rose (bass)
Britten Sinfonia, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Royal Holloway Choir, Thomas Adès
The Britten Sinfonia rises brilliantly to the challenges of the cruelly exposed wind and brass writing of Barry’s work. And Jennifer France gives a spectacular account of the relentlessly high-flying... — More…
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ConNotations Mei Yi Foo (piano), Ashley Wass (piano), Bartosz Woroch (violin) & Philipp Hutter (trumpet)
Britten Sinfonia, Clement Power
The trio of concertos – each of which features piano plus another solo instrument – forms a surprisingly satisfying programme, with lighter, exuberant Shostakovich and Saint-Saens framing Berg’s... — More…
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