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Vocal, Vocal (Chamber), Britten (composer)
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Special offer. British Music Collection - Britten & Walton
RecommendedPeter Pears (tenor), Dennis Brain (horn), Edith Sitwell (narrator)
Boyd Neel String Orchestra, English Opera Group Ensemble, Benjamin Britten, Anthony Collins
This disc includes one of the great highlights of the whole Britten discography, that first magical recording of the Serenade, with Pears in fresh, youthful voice and Dennis Brain's marvellous... —
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Building a Library, November 1999, Historic Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Shibe brings a lively charisma and a vibrant array of musical colour to the album, conjuring everything from 17th-century lute to Arabic oud across this wide-reaching programme. Sulayman’s performance... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th May 2023
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Special offer. The English Song Series Volume 22 - Benjamin Britten
Roderick Williams (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano)
Williams brings a gentler, more intimate touch to what Fischer-Dieskau called their 'enigmatic smile': Blake's Tyger burns bright but with less fierce teeth, and there is more melancholy than... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2012, Editor's Choice
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[Bostridge] has surely done nothing finer than this immaculately recorded new release. He is superbly partnered by Antonio Pappano, whose balancing of textures and beauty of touch sometimes... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th April 2013
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2013, Editor's Choice
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A Lad's Love
RecommendedBrian Giebler (tenor), Steven McGhee, Katie Hyun, Ben Russell, Jessica Meyer, Michael Katz, Reginald Mobley
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Very Best of English Song
RecommendedDame Janet Baker (mezzo), Gerald Moore (piano), Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Geoffrey Parsons (piano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), David Willison (piano), Ian Partridge (tenor), Janet Craxton (piano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone), Roger Vignoles...
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also recommended
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Building a Library, January 2021, Recommended orchestral version (Songs of Travel)
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Fratres: Les Violons du Roy - 30 ans
Marie-Andrée Benny (flute), Karina Gauvin (soprano), Daniel Taylor (counter-tenor), Catherine Perrin (narrator), Benedetto Lupo (piano), Pascale Giguère (violin), Louis-Philippe Marsolais (horn)
Les Violons du Roy, Bernard Labadie, Mathieu Lussier, Jean-Marie Zeitouni
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Special offer. FolksLied
Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Gerold Huber (piano), Anton Barachovsky (violin), Sebastian Klinger (cello)
Word-lively, supple and instinctive of inflection, Gerhaher is the perfect voice for a song such as Haydn’s ‘Flow gently, sweet Afton’…and his command of both English and Lallans Scots is formidable…[the... —
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Philip Langridge in a beautifully balanced concert programme —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2005, Choral & Song Choice
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