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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... — More…
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Rubbra: Symphony No. 9, Op. 140 'Sinfonia Sacra', etc.
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Lynne 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.... — More…
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Offer, British Symphonies
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite, Vernon Handley, Adrian Boult, Myer Fredman, Norman Del Mar, John Pritchard, Lennox Berkeley, William Alwyn, Josef Krips
this is a very significant release which really deserves to be snapped up by everyone, not least those who still cling to the discredited belief that when it comes to composing symphonies, Britain... — More…
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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... — More…
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Offer, 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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British Works for Cello and Piano, Vol. 3
Paul Watkins (cello) & Huw Watkins (piano)
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]... — More…
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Rubbra: The Morning Watch, Op. 55, etc.
Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Howard Shelley (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC National Chorus of Wales, Richard Hickox
A mouth-watering reissue comprising four outstandingly eloquent performances. The stand-out item here has to be Howard Shelley's imperious traversal of the big-boned Sinfoniaconcertante for piano... — More…
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Rubbra: Violin Concerto & Sinfonia Concertante
Edmund Rubbra (piano), Endré Wolf (violin)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Hugo Rignold, Rudolf Schwarz
What a treat to encounter Rubbra’s glorious Violin Concerto played by the work’s Budapest dedicatee Endre Wolf…A memorably unforced display it proves, too, plumbing genuine depths of rapt expression... — More…
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This Christmas Night
Stephen Farr (organ), Edward Turner (organ)
Choir of Worcester College Oxford
Tired of the same old seasonal chestnuts? Here's your solution - a wonderful collection of carols from the last half-century, mainly by British composers...Stephen Farr directs delectably sensitive... — More…
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Rubbra - Sacred Choral Music
Robert Houssart (organ), Edward Lyon (tenor), Jonathan Bungard (tenor), Laurence Keegan-Fischer (treble), Thomas Williams (alto)
St. John's College Choir, Cambridge, Christopher Robinson
Christopher Robinson and his St John's College Choir prove especially eloquent, humane advocates of the eight-part Missa Cantuariensis. We've long needed a top-notch digital recording of this,... — More…
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