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Boult was the dedicatee of Edmund Rubbra’s Second Symphony…Such a deep personal connection shines through every bar of this 1954 studio recording, whose near-incandescent intensity makes the... — More…
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The Gluepot Connection
Choral Music by Ireland, Rawsthorne, Warlock, Bax, Alan Bush, Lutyens, Walton & EJ Moeran
Londinium Chamber Choir, Andrew Griffiths
Tenuous links to alcohol apart, there is some fine music-making on this disc. A rapt performance of Peter Warlock’s The Full Heart opens it, the discomfiting harmonies and eerie suspensions... — More…CD
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Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies for Piano Duo, Vol.1
arr. Xaver Scharwenka
Tessa Uys, Ben Schoeman (piano duo)
Rather than adopt contemporary period instrument rhetoric and fleet-footed tempos, Uys and Schoeman set their interpretative compass around the mid-20th century – I was reminded on more than... — More…
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The Wesleys and Their Contemporaries
Jennifer Bate (organ of St. James’s Church, Bermondsey and Brangwyn Hall, Swansea)
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Donohoe is particularly attentive to this [operatic] side of Mozart’s expression, prioritising a cantabile tone, vivid articulation and songful phrasing. Although, realistically enough, he eschews... — More…
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Each of the five very strong female voices in this accomplished professional consort is full of character, yet they blend perfectly when required in a sequence of immaculate performances of... — More…
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[the Introduction and Fugue] is given a fiery account by Mark Bebbington and Rebecca Omordia. Their thunderous triple forte chords strike with terrifying force in the close recording…an essential... — More…
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Why do the seven songs of William Alwyn’s 1978 cycle A Leave-Taking not feature more often in recitals? Tenor James Gilchrist’s intense interpretation makes a compelling case for it. The title... — More…
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Handel: Joshua, HWV 64
Katherine Manley (soprano), Alexandra Gibson (mezzo-soprano), Allan Clayton (tenor) George Humphreys (bass) & Richard Rowntree (tenor)
London Handel Orchestra and Chorus, Laurence Cummings
….a beautifully paced reading, reflective and dramatic by turns and always stylish….The bright soprano of Catherine Manley as Achsah is particularly attractive, especially in the oratorio’s... — More…
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