SACD, Bliss (composer)
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English Music For Strings
RecommendedBritten, Bliss, Bridge, Berkeley
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
Here in [the Bridge Lament] is a prime example of the heartfelt precision and beauty of tone that typifies John Wilson’s Sinfonia of London. There’s plenty of heart, too, in their superlative... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th January 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2021
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Bliss: Morning Heroes & Hymn to Apollo
RecommendedSamuel 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... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th September 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Choral
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Seal is strong on atmosphere, distilling an unmistakable air of lurking menace in the shadowy Overture, where the dockside tenements of the Gorbals area in Glasgow are depicted. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Bliss: Mary of Magdala, The Enchantress & Meditations of a Theme by John Blow
RecommendedDame 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. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th November 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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With violinist Isabelle van Keulen and clarinettist Michael Collins spearheading the players, it ’s unsurprising that the performance [of the Ferguson Octet] as a whole is something of a revelation. —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, Chamber Choice
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I’m a sucker for strings, so it takes an ensemble as brilliant as the Black Dyke Band to convince me that brass and percussion alone is enough. And it really is in this sublime selection of... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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The colourful scoring, together with some characteristic melodic and harmonic twists, go right back to the Colour Symphony of the 1920s... it’s hard to imagine a more persuasive performance,... —
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Walton & Bliss: Violin Concertos
Original version of Walton's Violin Concerto
Lorraine McAslan (violin)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Martin Yates
McAslan’s response to the solo part’s Heifetz-satisfying technical demands is as fine as her bombproof tuning and warm, not over-sumptuous tone and expression. —
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a generous anthology showcasing three major British contributions to the viola repertoire...Euler proves a highly sensitive, stylish and delectably unforced interpreter. He also generates a... —
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