Latest News: Classical, Stanford (composer)
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Interview,
Stanford String Quartets from the Dante Quartet 5th March 2020David talks to violinist Krysia Osostowicz and musicologist Jeremy Dibble about the final volume in the Dante Quartet's Stanford cycle.
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Recording of the Week,
Stanford Ceremonial Works from Howard Shelley and the Ulster Orchestra 16th August 2019Pomp and circumstance aplenty in A Song of Agincourt and the 'Solemn March and Heroic Epilogue' Verdun, and ethereal magic from the ladies of Codetta chamber choir in Fairy Day.
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Interview,
Stephen Layton on the choral works of Stanford 2nd August 2017Stephen Layton, Director of Music at Trinity College Cambridge, talks to David about his recent disc with the chapel choir.
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Recording of the Week,
Violin Concertos by Stanford and Milford 26th May 2014David listens to Rupert Marshall-Luck’s performances of two unusual violin concertos, on the independent EM Records label.
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Recording of the Week,
I was glad: Sacred Music by Stanford & Parry 28th January 2013Robert King and his Consort present lavish orchestrations (on period instruments) of Parry’s Te Deum, I was glad, Blest Pair of Sirens and Jerusalem, and four of Stanford’s canticle settings, with Carolyn Sampson and David Wilson-Johnson as soloists.