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New. Edmund Rubbra: Crucifuxus Pro Nobis
Choir of Merton College Oxford, Benjamin Hulett, Benjamin Nicholas
Aficionados will rightly rejoice at the appearance of this long-overdue premiere recording of the raptly mystical and luminously textured Cantata di camera...All told, this is a peach of an... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2026, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. 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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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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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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Rubbra - Complete Symphonies
Lynne Dawson (soprano), Della Jones (contralto), Stephen Roberts (baritone)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC National Chorus of Wales, Richard Hickox
Hickox's reading of the Fifth Symphony is easily the finest and most penetrating; the slow movement has great depth and, thanks to a magnficent recording, a great clarity than either of its... —
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Special offer. Rubbra: Symphony Nos. 3 & 7
RecommendedBBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox
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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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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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 81 - Rubbra & Bliss
Piers Lane (piano), The Orchestra Now, Leon Botstein
Rubbra’s Piano Concerto in G major is something special…Piers Lane’s solo playing throughout is a phenomenon of tireless technical strength, always beautifully aligned to each work’s different... —
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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... —
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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: 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... —
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