Elizabeth Watts
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This is a really good performance [of the Pastoral]. On one level Martyn Brabbins is superbly alert to the intricacies of the musical texture. After on hearing I got the score and listened again... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th January 2020
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, Orchestral Choice
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New,
Britten: Spring Symphony, Sinfonia da Requiem, the Young Person's Guide To the Orchestra Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Alice Coote (mezzo), Allan Clayton (tenor), London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
It is a fine, taut reading [of the Spring Symphony] with some superb singing by all concerned, swifter than some rivals, in the finale a shade too much so, with some muddy articulation. — More…
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CPE Bach: Magnificat
RecommendedElizabeth Watts (soprano), Wiebke Lehmkuhl (alto), Lothar Odinius (tenor) & Markus Eiche (bass)
RIAS Kammerchor & Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Hans-Christoph Rademann
a fine reconstruction of the second half of a concert [CPE Bach] conducted in Hamburg on Palm Sunday, 1786. So vivacious is the choral singing and orchestral playing under Hans-Chrisoph Rademann... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th February 2014
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia antartica & Symphony No 9
Elizabeth Watts (soprano)
BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
This could be just the recording both these symphonies need. — More…
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Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony
& other works
Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Mary Bevan (soprano), Kitty Whately (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal College of Music Brass Band, Martyn Brabbins
Brabbins conducts the [Symphony] with a sense of purposeful directness, likeably enhanced by the expressive warmth of the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s response. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2017, Editor's Choice
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George Dyson: Choral Symphony & St. Paul's Voyage to Melita
Joshua Ellicott (tenor), Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Caitlin Hulcup (mezzo-soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone)
The Bach Choir & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, David Hill
This is the Symphony’s premiere recording. It is a very good one. Conductor David Hill shapes the opening movement, an amalgam of overture and chorus, with evident affection…[Dyson’s] individuality... — More…
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Varèse - Orchestral Works Volume 2
Thomas Bloch (ondes martenot), Christopher Lyndon-Gee (piano), Maria Grochowska (flute), Elizabeth Watts (soprano)
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Men’s Voices of Camerata Silesia
With Varèse fans still revelling in Riccardo Chailly's groundbreaking 1998 Decca cycle, anybody else approaching this provocative and inflammable music better have something profound to say:... — More…
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Musique pour l'apocalypse zombie
Susan Belling (vocals), Thomas Bloch (ondes martenot), Michel Redolfi (electronics), Bruno Mathieu (organ), Raymond Curfs (timpani), Dimity Hall (violin), Mark Lubotsky (violin), Irina Morozova (viola), Irina Schnittke (piano), Julian Smiles (cello), Elisabeth Watts (soprano), Olivia Robinson (soprano),...
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Successively excited, rueful and at peace, [Watts] leaves extremes of colour to the orchestration around her…I especially enjoy Albrecht and the orchestra letting the sunshine into the Scherzo,... — More…
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The Essentials: Mozart
Peter Lang (piano), Gianluca Luisi (piano), Greta de Reyghere (soprano), Renaat Deckers (tenor), Jan van der Crabben (bass), Alessandro Deljavan (piano), Kurt Berger (flute), János Fehérvári (viola), Kari Kriikku (clarinet), Rainer Honeck (violin), Tobias Lea (viola), Hans Friedrich (flute), Angelica...
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