Browse: Epoch (series)
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Ralph Vaughan Williams: Early and Late Works
Guy Johnston (cello)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates
The stand-out music...comes in Dark Pastoral. This is David Matthews's wonderfully skilled and imaginative, yet always-in-style completion of the slow movement of an unfinished cello concerto...Johnston's... — More…
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Boughton: The Queen of Cornwall
A music-drama based on the play by Thomas Hardy
Heather Shipp (Queen Iseult), Joan Rodgers (Iseult of Brittany, the Whitehanded), Jacques Imbrailo (Sir Tristram), Patricia Orr (Brangwain), Neal Davies (King Mark), Peter Wilman (Sir Andret), Elizabeth Weisberg (Damsel)
New London Orchestra, Members of The London Chorus, Ronald Corp
If you can ignore the words, the writing for both voices and orchestra has a surging confidence that's very appealing, and the musical substance grows on one with repeated hearings. In a strong... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2011, Editor's Choice
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Opera, March 2011, Recording of the Month
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This is the first CD devoted to [Collins's] own highly enjoyable music...His most famous piece of all is the disarmingly simple Vanity Fair. First performed in 1952, this is the composition he... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Widor: Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 1 & La Nuit de Walpurgis
World premiere recordings
Sergey Levitin (violin)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates
This valuable new release, the third volume in Martin Yates's Widor series, shows exactly why the Goethe-inspired score enjoyed success during the composer's lifetime…it is an orchestral tour... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, Orchestral Choice
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Delius & Ireland: Sonatas (arranged for viola by Lionel Tertis)
Recorded at Potton Hall, Suffolk, 24-26 May 2009
Roger Chase (viola) & Michiko Otaki (piano)
...there is an inner logic to the writing, which Chase's performance effectively brings out — More…
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Chaminade: Callirhoë - Ballet Symphonique & Concertstück for piano and orchestra
Victor Sangiorgio (piano)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Martin Yates
The piano part [of the Concertstück] is full of the vertiginous scampering we find in so much 19th-century French piano music, to which Victor Sangiorgio does full justice; but perhaps Cecile... — More…
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New Music for Oboe - Volume 2
Melinda Maxwell (oboe, cor anglais), Anna Barton (oboe) & Alexia Pelling (oboe), Hugh Webb (harp), Richard Benjafield (percussion), Stephen Gutman (piano)
Melinda Maxwell is an outstanding musician. The range of colour and expression she brings to this music is phenomenal. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2007, Chamber Choice
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Cyril Scott - Sonata Lirica
and other works for violin and piano
Clare Howick (violin) & Sophia Rahman (piano)
The Scott revival marches on! The Sonata lirica (1937) was lost for years and this seems to be its first performance. Hearing it without knowing the composer, one might have guessed Delius.
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2008, Editor's Choice
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Edward Elgar - The Spirit of England
Susan Gritton (soprano), Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Iain Farrington (organ)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, David Lloyd-Jones
Lloyd-Jones conducts a powerful performance, bitingly dramatic in 'The Fourth of August', with the chorus in superb form...Susan Gritton sings brightly and with clarity...a fascinating disc,... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Choral
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Lionel Sainsbury & John Foulds: Cello Concertos
Raphael Wallfisch (cello)
Royal National Scottish Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Martin Yates
Always a spirited champion of British repertoire, Raphael Wallfisch gives the piece his considerable all, with Martin Yates and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra sweeping happily alongside...Wallfisch's... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2012, Editor's Choice
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