CD, Finzi (composer)
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Finzi: Cello Concerto, Op. 40
RecommendedPaul Watkins (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
Sir Andrew Davis’s feeling for the composer’s sensitive, harmonically conservative language is abundantly clear in these vivid readings with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Soloists too are well... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st December 2018
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Trinity’s mixed young adults are effortless in the ease with which they respond to Layton’s exacting demands. The ground is hit running with a Magnificat whose iterations of the word ‘magnify’... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Finzi: Clarinet Concerto & Cello Concerto
RecommendedJohn Denman (clarinet), Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
New Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley
The Cello Concerto was in many ways the composer's swansong… The beautifully slow movement is deeply searching and draws on an Elgarian quality, a poignant nobility. Yo-Yo Ma's wistfully introspective... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2007, Re-issue of the Month
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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The Past & I: 100 Years of Thomas Hardy
RecommendedMusic & Arrangements by Arthur Keegan
Lotte Betts-Dean (mezzo), James Girling (guitar), Ligeti Quartet
The Ligeti Quartet ’s performance resonates with commitment and eloquence as Keegan highlights the tensions between man and nature, art and mortality, interlaying texts by Hardy and Philip Larkin.... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th July 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024, Shortlisted - New Work (Elegies for Emma)
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In Terra Pax
RecommendedA Christmas Anthology
Julia Doyle (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone) & Mark Williams (organ and piano)
City of London Choir & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Hilary Davan Wetton
The gem here is Finzi's In terra pax… From late in Finzi's life, it is suffused with English pastoral yearning, and baritone Roderick Williams sings beautifully in the outer sections. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th November 2009
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Sherratt possesses that rare gift – a genuine bass voice that carries its lyrical, expressive clarity from its ringing high notes right down to a full-toned basso profundo delivered without... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Song
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Finzi: Clarinet Concerto, Five Bagatelles & other works
RecommendedRobert Plane (clarinet) & Lesley Hatfield (violin)
Northern Sinfonia, Howard Griffiths
This is a highly commanding performance of Finzi's gorgeous Clarinet Concerto from Northern Sinfonia principal, Robert Plane. With his bright, singing tone and effortless technical mastery,... — More…
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Building a Library, December 2006, Budget Choice
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It's when the pedal goes down (literally and metaphorically) that this disc really soars, startling the ear into ecstasy with the sudden release of Rachmaninov's Cherubic Hymn, the 'bright Seraphim'... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2019, Editor's Choice
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British String Concertos
Lorraine McAslan (violin), Alexander Baillie (cello), Kenneth Sillito (violin), Emanuel Hurwitz (cello), Cecil Aronowitz (viola), Rodney Friend (violin), Raphael Wallfisch (cello), John Georgiadis (violin), Rohan de Saram (cello), Yfrah Neaman (violin), Manoug Parikian (violin), Erich Gruenberg (violin),...
this is an historic collection for all sorts of reasons. These recordings will be listened to for many years to come. The heyday of Lyrita was an extraordinarily rich period for British music... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2005, Editor's Choice
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