Toby Spence
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Szymanowski: Symphonies Nos 3 & 4 & Stabat Mater
Toby Spence (tenor), Denis Matsuev (piano), Sally Matthews (soprano), Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo) & Kostas Smoriginas (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra, with London Symphony Chorus, Valery Gergiev
Matsuev has his feet...firmly planted on terra firma, the edgier writing displaying more of a kinship with Bartok until the gorgeous return to lushness in the second movement suggests an almost... — More…
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JS Bach: Magnificat and Handel: Dixit Dominus
Natalie Dessay, Karine Deshayes, Philippe Jaroussky, Laurent Naouri & Toby Spence
Le Concert d’Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm
Haïm's performances are light-footed and elegantly phrased and her mainly pleasing line-up of soloists is attentive to textural content and word-painting. — More…
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Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts, Op. 5 (Requiem)
RecommendedToby Spence (Tenor)
SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Sir Roger Norrington
Norrington's approach is pensive, sober and funereal-but it's so well paced that the sense of inevitability underlines man's mortality, and the outbursts when they do come are more effective... — More…
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Building a Library, December 2006, SACD Choice
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Handel: Messiah
Henry Jenkinson, Otta Jones, Robert Brooks (trebles), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Toby Spence (tenor), Eamonn Dougan (bass), Nicholas Wearne (organ continuo)
Academy of Ancient Music & Choir of New College Oxford, Edward Higginbottom
Taking his cue from Handel's 1751 performances, Edward Higginbottom assigns all the soprano solos to some talented boy trebles from the Choir of New College, Oxford. Otta Jones's contribution... — More…
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Finzi: Chamber Music
Rebecca Evans (soprano), Michael George (baritone), Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Toby Spence (tenor)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Vernon Handley
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Sir Colin Davis Anthology
Limited Edition of 5000
Ben Heppner (Enée), Michelle DeYoung (Didon), Petra Lang (Cassandre), Sara Mingardo (Anna), Peter Mattei (Chorèbe), Stephen Milling (Narbal), Kenneth Tarver (Iopas), Toby Spence (Hylas), Alan Ewing (Priam)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
despite the film’s scrappy construction music and man emerge loud and clear. A “reluctant king” is Sir David Attenborough’s description. His baton, Mitsuko Uchida, the pianist, crisply says,... — More…
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Davis was seemingly Berlioz’s disciple on earth, and this was the glorious late flowering of his love for the composer…Les Troyens crackles with a theatricality that outshines even the pioneering... — More…Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Best Collection
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Handel: La Resurrezione, HWV47
Camilla Tilling, Kate Royal, Toby Spence, Sonia Prina & Luca Pisaroni
Le Concert d’Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm
…a performance of breath-taking clarity. …Haïm maintains the warmth and delicacy of the chamber sensibility for which this work was conceived. — More…
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