Rubbra
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Kelly exhibits a highly developed and polished technical command of his instrument. He has sound musical instincts and a secure intellectual grasp of a refreshingly wide repertory. —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2026, Editor's Choice
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Edmund Rubbra: Crucifuxus Pro Nobis
Choir of Merton College Oxford, Benjamin Hulett, Benjamin Nicholas
this is an atmospheric album from Merton College Choir, which paints the glory of God in strange and mysterious harmonies...The choir is beautifully delineated in the lower registers, but slightly... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2026, Editor's Choice
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Walton & Rubbra - Viola Concertos
RecommendedLawrence Power (viola)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov
…Lawrence Power's… playing is stunningly precise, crisply articulated and beautifully projected, with no hint of the little scrambles and occasionally pinched tone that beset even quite famous... —
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Building a Library, November 2007, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Concerto
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Building a Library, March 2023, Recommended Recording
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For some years the Third Symphony was a repertory piece, at least on BBC programmes, but it fell out of favour in the late 1950s. Commentators have noticed a certain Sibelian cut to its opening... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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The most stylistically striking piece is Rubbra's Sonata of 1946...The Watkins brothers, true to form, pay close attention to its rhythmic life, though they also know how to soar into beauty...[they]... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2014, Editor's Choice
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British Piano Concertos Vol. 2
Simon Callaghan, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Stephen Bell, George Vass
In every case, Simon Callaghan radiates delight in reviving these neglected items, and his pungent and precise fingering is matched by the spirited attack of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales... —
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Rubbra: Symphony No. 9, Op. 140 'Sinfonia Sacra', etc.
RecommendedLynne Dawson (soprano), Della Jones (contralto), Stephen Roberts (bass)
BBC National Chorus & Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox
The Ninth (1973) is Rubbra's most visionary utterance, and its stature has so far gone unrecognised.
(This is its only recording.) Its subtitle, Sinfoniasacra, gives a good idea of its character.... —Awards:
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Rubbra: Inscape, Op. 122, etc.
RecommendedStephen Varcoe (baritone)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chorus, City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
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Special offer. Poetry in Music
Ruth Provost, Kirsty Hopkins, David Clegg, Jeremy Budd, Ben Davies, Julie Cooper, Edward McMullan, Mark Dobell
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
It is clear that this is something really special. That specialness comes not just from the fact that The Sixteen elevate everything they perform through their opulent musicality and supreme... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Choral
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Rubbra: Symphony No. 6, Op. 80, etc.
Rohan de Saram (cello)
Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Norman Del Mar, Vernon Handley
