Nimbus
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Celebration
Christmas Fanfares and Carols
Aled Jones (readings)
BBC Welsh Chorus, Fanfare Trumpeters of the Welsh Guards, John Hugh Thomas, Lt. Col. P. Hannam, BEM
Equally Celtic (as the Chieftains) and equally Christmassy is Celebration Fanfares and Carols (Nimbus): the BBC Welsh Chorus sings such vernacular carols as the regal "Tua Bethlem Dref" and... —
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The American pianist Mark Anderson - winner of the third prize in the 1993 Leeds International Piano Competition - is the soloist. He gives a glittering performance of the Dohnányi, and a spontaneous... —
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Hindemith composed this, his last chamber work, between 1957 and 1958 for members of the Berlin Philharmonic, and double-bassist Rainer Zepperitz, who plays here, took part in the premiere première,... —
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
John Lill (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Tadaaki Otaka
Once again I can celebrate Nimbus's balance and good sound quality, Otaka's eloquence (try the start of the Second Concerto's Adagio sostenuto) and John Lill's honest-to-goodness freedom from... —
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Hindemith, Janacek, Vackar: Music for Brass, Piano and Percussion
John Wallace (trumpet/conductor), Radoslav Kvapil (piano), Evelyn Glennie (xylophone)
The Wallace Collection, Members of the Philharmonia Orchestra, Simon Wright
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Egon Wellesz - Choral Music
Clive Driskill-Smith (organ)
Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Stephen Darlington (director)
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