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As a collection, the performance here surely go straight to the front of the field. Gamba and his Manchester orchestra launch the Foulds with a glistening, bright-eyed buoyancy…Gamba has an instinct... — More…
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Offer, Rubbra & Bliss: Piano Concertos
Piers Lane (piano)
The Orchestra Now, Leon Botstein
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Bliss: Mary of Magdala, The Enchantress & Meditations of a Theme by John Blow
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Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), James Platt (bass)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, Sir Andrew Davis
There is an immolatory vehemence to her [connolly’s] performance, securely buttressed by Davis and his BBC forces...Bliss adherents will need to add this to their roster of necessary discs. — More…
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Bliss: Morning Heroes & Hymn to Apollo
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Samuel West (orator)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, Sir Andrew Davis
Sir Andrew Davis's performance with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus surpasses Sir Charles Groves's fine 1974 EMI Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra account with urgent tempos, choral... — More…
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Pianophiles will be slavering at the prospect of having access to all this great artist’s recordings...for me it is the Arensky Trio that shows Joyce at her brilliant best...she finds a perfect... — More…
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What a joy to welcome on CD, a major British ballet score (comparable in appeal to Walton's Façade with which, happily, it's coupled). Constant Lambert's Horoscope is a highly individual score... — More…
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Bliss: The Beatitudes, Introduction and Allegro & God save the Queen
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Emily Birsan (soprano), Ben Johnson (tenor)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, Sir Andrew Davis
There is no doubting Sir Andrew Davis’s grasp of The Beatitudes, and he steers a broadly authoritative performance, with incisive, committed playing from the BBC Symphony Orchestra…Davis’s punchy,... — More…
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This is the only available version of the full ballet… almost all the music to the same high, full-blooded standard… The early Melée Fantasque is much more than a makeweight… Lloyd-Jones's... — More…
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Bliss: Piano Concerto
Peter Donohoe & Martin Roscoe (pianos)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones
Concerto for Two pianos is the most lively, attractive work on the disc, full of quick, spiky wit and delight on colour, all well brought out by Donohoe and Roscoe — More…
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Mewton-Wood plays Twentieth Century Piano Concertos
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Noel Mewton-Wood (piano), with Harry Sevenstern (trumpet)
Utrecht Symphony Orchestra, Residentie Orchestra, The Hague, Concert Hall Symphony Orchestra, Walter Goehr
…Mewton-Wood's hell-raising display is in a class of its own, elevating Bliss's extrovert rhetoric to new levels of musical excitement. So too is the Stravinsky Concerto for Piano and Winds,... — More…
