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Ralph Vaughan Williams; Gustav Holst: String Quartets
Tippett Quartet (string quartet), John Mills, Jeremy Isaac, Lydia Lowndes-Northcott, Bozidar Vukotic
The Tippett Quartet play this music with more than the requisite enthusiasm and insight, and the power and intimacy of their music-making is well caught by the recording team. I certainly haven’t... — More…
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Kathleen Ferrier in New York
John Newmark (piano), Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Set Svanholm (tenor)
New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Bruno Walter
This disc is a musical time capsule in many ways, above all for Ferrier’s divine singing under Walter’s baton of Das Lied von der Erde… ‘Der Abschied’ is magical: her voice is so fresh, gloriously... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2020, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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A delightful selection of pieces, previously unrecorded. The light frippery on display is balanced by more calculated offerings like Memories of Sapphire. — More…
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Dedication: Ruth Gipps
Peter Cigleris (clarinet), Gareth Hulse (oboe), Duncan Honeybourne (piano), Tippett Quartet
Gipps’s music is certainly rich in character...Cigleris, an indefatigable champion of British clarinet music, proves an attentive, big-hearted performer whose devotion to this repertoire is... — More…
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Mark Bebbington's 85th-birthday tribute to the late Sir Malcolm Arnold starts with his first substantial piano composition, the Piano Sonata in B minor from 1942. After a concise opening movement,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2007, Editor's Choice
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Serge Koussevitzky Conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 & Sibelius: Symphony No. 2
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky
…Extremely important and valuable additions to the Koussevitzky discography, and should be snapped up avidly by all collectors of historic orchestral recordings. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Historical
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[Bebbington] plays with tremendous authority, supported by a vivid recording with a appropriately wide dynamic range…Whatever his passions, private or public, Bax does what all worthwhile composers... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2019, Editor's Choice
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Some of the songs are set in an almost epigrammatic fashion, so that the listener’s attention is never allowed to waver. A. E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad has often been set to music, but Somervell... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2020
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Pierre Monteux Live Bbc Northern Orchestra, Pierre Monteux
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra
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The main work here is the grim and haunted Sonata (1921-24), Bridge's painful and profound response to the Great War. This is an epic performance, making the most of the work's mingled violence... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2006, Instrumental Choice
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