Itter Broadcast Collection
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Bantock: Omar Khayyám
RecommendedSarah Walker (contralto), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) & Brian Raynor Cook (baritone), Johanna Peters (contralto)
BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Norman Del Mar
This 1979 revival…is complete, and much livelier [than Handley’s performance] with equally fine soloists…it’s well coupled with other less rare Bantock, especially Fifine at the Fair, based on... — More…
Awards:
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Sir Arthur Bliss: The Beatitudes
Promenade Premiere, Albert Hall, London. BBC Broadcast 31 August 1964
Heather Harper (soprano) & Gerald English (tenor)
Goldsmiths Choral Union, Royal Choral Society, Wembley Philharmonic Society, BBC Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Arthur Bliss
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A. Butterworth: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 & 4
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra, Arthur Butterworth, Christopher Adey, Bryden Thomson
2 CDs
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Cyril Rootham: Symphony No. 2 & Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity
Teresa Cahill (soprano), Philip Langridge (tenor) & Michael Rippon (bass-baritone)
Scottish Philharmonic Singers & BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Trinity Boys Choir, BBC Singers & BBC Concert Orchestra, Vernon Handley
2 CDs
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Lennox Berkeley: Sacred Choral Music
Mary Thomas (soprano), Barbara Elsy (soprano), Maureen Lehane (contralto), Nigel Rogers (tenor), Christopher Keyte (baritone) & Michael Rippon (bass), Felicity Harrison (soprano) & Donald Hunt (organ)
Members of the English Chamber Orchestra & Ambrosian Singers, BBC Northern Singers...
There is a tremendous intensity about this 1965 performance, conducted by Norman Del Mar…[the disc also includes] a splendidly atmospheric recording of his mighty – and, for my money, grossly... — More…
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Vaughan Williams: Sir John in Love
Heddle Nash (Shallow), Parry Jones (Sir Hugh Evans), Gerald Davies (Slender), Andrew Gold (Peter Simple), Denis Dowling (Page), Roderick Jones (Sir John Falstaff), John Kentish (Bardolph), Denis Catlin (Nym), Forbes Robinson (Pistol), April Cantelo (Anne Page), Laelia Finneberg (Mrs Page), Marion...
Conducted with nonchalant skill by Stanford Robinson, the playing and singing are nearly flawless, with one singer after another happily showing how to rise to an opportunity while not hogging... — More…
2 CDs
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Arnold Cooke: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra, John Pritchard, Bernard Keeffe
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Tate, P: The Lodger
Owen Brannigan (George Bunting), Johanna Peters (Emma, his wife), Marion Studholme (Daisy, their daughter), Joseph Ward (The Lodger), Alexander Young (Joe Chandler, a young detective), John Thornley (A paper-boy), Ranken Bushby (A policeman), Trevor Anthony (A cockney), Rachel Paine (A cockney Woman),...
Tate’s firmly-structured score employs a lyrical, natural arioso, intensifying into more formal arias, duets and ensembles at emotional touch-points. Her style is darkly tonal, in the manner... — More…
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Leigh, W: Jolly Roger
Neilson Taylor (Sir Roderick Venom), Alan Dudley (Sir William Rowlocks), Vernon Midgley (Jolly Roger), Leslie Fyson (Bold Ben Blister), Gordon Faith (The Bloody Pirate), Marietta Midgley (Amelia), Helen Landis (Miss Flora Pott), Patricia Whitmore (Prudence Wary)
The Ambrosian Singers & BBC...
The exotically spiced, generous melodies of the ‘Sunset’ duet for Roger and his faithful beloved Amelia are well served by the brother-and-sister team of Maryetta and Vernon Midgley. Alan Dudley’s... — More…
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Peter Racine Fricker: The Vision Of Judgement & Symphony No. 5
Jane Manning (soprano) & Robert Tear (tenor), Gillian Weir (organ)
Leeds Festival Chorus & Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Charles Groves, Colin Davis
There’s a truly impressive work in here, capable of exciting grand gestures, but most personal in the sensitive elegiac sections – the a cappella ‘Libera me’ is a highlight — More…
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