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Guy Johnston
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A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols: The Centenary Service
RecommendedChoir of King's College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
This is a priceless record not only of the centenary of the most famous carol service in the world, but of the last to be directed by Sir Stephen Cleobury after 37 years at the helm of chapel... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th November 2019
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Dobrinka Tabakova: Orpheus' Comet, Earth Suite & Concertos
Maxim Rysanov (viola), Guy Johnston (cello), Hallé Orchestra, Delyana Lazarova
Complex but richly communicative, her compositions demonstrate this blend [of mind and heart' to a tee...Beautifully performed and recorded, this is a first-rate release, offering a timely showcase... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2023, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Concerto
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The music speaks so directly and involving that you're caught up in it from the start. …A Vision and a Journey lives up to its title impressively: taking Sibelius as an inspiration… was clearly... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Contemporary
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Special offer. Rebecca Dale: Night Seasons
Steven Isserlis (cello), Richard Harwood, Ben Dawson, Victoria Meteyard (soprano), Ben Russell, Klara Romac, Tom Walley, Olivia Jageurs, Rebecca Lea (soprano), Rosanna Wicks (soprano), Guy Johnston (cello), Richard McVeigh
Philharmonia Orchestra, Tenebrae, Michael Collins, Nigel Short
Dale’s skills are best expressed in the titular concerto ‘Night Seasons’...The piece as a whole is by turn penetrating and genuinely poignant, and certainly makes this release worth owning. — More…
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Karl Jenkins - The Armed Man
Guy Johnston (cello), Mohammed Gad (vocals), Nicholas Merryweather (baritone), Lisa Spurgeon (soprano), Mike Brewer (chorus conductor), Paul Beniston (trumpet), Neil Percy (percussion), Elizabeth Witts (soprano), Jody K. Jenkins (percussion), Rachel Lloyd (mezzo-soprano), Tristan Hambleton (treble),...
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Special offer. Tecchler's Cello: From Cambridge to Rome
Guy Johnston (cello), Tom Poster (piano), Magnus Johnston (violin), Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello)
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Stephen Cleobury, Carlo Rizzari
Barrière’s amiable Sonata for Two Cellos in G major unites [Johnston] with fellow BBC Young Musicians of the Year Sheku Kanneh-Mason. It’s a delectably nuanced performance, capped by a finale... — More…
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Bliss: Cello Concerto, F. 120
Guy Johnston (cello)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze
A recording of [the] premiere shows how well Rostropovich's essentially muscular style suited the piece, and the jagged opening dotted rhy thms are caught as energetically by Johnston. He may... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2025, Editor's Choice
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Avro Pärt - Choral Works
Guy Johnston (treble), Tasmin Little & Richard Studt (violins), Martin Roscoe (piano)
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge / Stephen Cleobury
Bournemouth Sinfonietta / Richard Studt
London Philharmonic / Franz Welser-Möst &
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir / Tõnu...
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Special offer. Bracing Change
Guy Johnston (cello)
JACK Quartet, Doric String Quartet, Carducci String Quartet
Holt’s vivid score here oscillates between furious counterpoint and passages of defiant poise…Dennehy’s post-minimalist The weather of it is at once dynamic an tender, the sweetness of his harmony... — More…
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British Classical Masterpieces
Gerald Peregrine, Antony Ingham, Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano), Henry Purcell, Kym Amps, David van Asch, Maria Kliegel (cello), Nigel North (lute), Benjamin Frith (piano), Dale Kavanagh (guitar), Madeleine Mitchell (violin), Gordon MacKay, Joseph Spooner, Murray McLachlan (piano),...
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