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Maxwell Davies & Panufnik: Symphonies No. 10
RecommendedMarkus Butter (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Sir Antonio Pappano
Highly charged fervour animates the symphony’s discourse on creativity. — More…
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Contemporary
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Simon Rattle & Peter Maxwell Davies
Recommended25th anniversary edition - first time on CD
Philharmonia Orchestra, The Fires of London, Simon Rattle, Peter Maxwell Davies
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Gramophone Awards, 1979, Winner - Contemporary
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impressive, both in the quality of the playing and the variety of the music…in Ysaye's Third Sonata she yields nothing to the finest recordings in her accuracy and passion, the recording capturing... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2017, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2017, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Winner - Instrumental
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Special offer. The NMC Songbook
RecommendedSopranos - Claire Booth, Ailish Tynan, Elizabeth Atherton
Mezzo-sopranos - Susan Bickley, Loré Lixenberg, Jean Rigby
Countertenors - James Bowman, Michael Chance, Andrew Watts
Tenors - Andrew Kennedy, Daniel Norman, Benjamin Hulett
Baritones - Stefan Loges, Roderick Williams,...
…anyone listening to these discs will find many things to savour… It is, inevitably an eclectic mix, but, as in any well-planned song recital, the progressions and juxtapositions are continually... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th April 2009
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Contemporary
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Special offer. Davies, Peter Maxwell: Taverner
Martyn Hill (Taverner), David Wilson-Johnson (Jester), Stephen Richardson (Henry VIII), Fiona Kimm (Virgin Mary), Michael Chance (Priest/God), Quentin Hayes (White Abbot) & Peter Sidhom (Richard Taverner)
Fretwork, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta Voices, His Majestys Sagbutts...
The opera is full… bitterly ironic juxtapositions, such as the 'holy' chanting from monks heard against the cynical Realpolitik of the negotiations between King and the Cardinal. Making the... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Opera
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Opera, April 2010, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale
Harrison Birtwistle (The Soldier), George Benjamin (The Devil), Dame Harriet Walter (narrator)
Royal Academy of Music, Oliver Knussen
It’s recorded in a way to convey to the maximum both the poetic detail and the expert pacing of Knussen’s finely-pointed reading, and to give full rein to Dame Harriet’s wonderfully free-spirited... — More…
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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Special offer. Our Gilded Veins
Katherine Bryan (flute), Henry Clay (cor anglais)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Rory MacDonald
Suckling’s quiet close featuring (pre-recorded) bells is undeniably affecting. If it and Clyne’s elegy are the expressive focal points of the album, then Rosemary Furniss’s arrangement for strings... — More…
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Special offer. Sea Eagle (works for horn)
Richard Watkins (horn), Mark Padmore (tenor) & Huw Watkins (piano), Paul Watkins (cello) & Huw Watkins (piano), Laura Samuel (violin) & Huw Watkins (piano), Paul Watkins (cello)
The Nash Ensemble
The quality of the works on offer here should make this release appeal well beyond the ranks of new music aficionados; and the near-flawless performances provide their own recommendation...[Watkins's]... — More…
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