Chandos
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Special offer. Parry: Orchestral and Choral Works
Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales
Amanda Roocroft (soprano)
BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales, Neeme Järvi
This is breast-swelling stuff...the BBC National Orchestra of Wales gives warmly sympathetic renditions of music which was probably completely unfamiliar to them before the recording sessions.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2012, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Mendelssohn in Birmingham, Vol. 2
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Gardner conducts these pieces with a highly satisfying blend of freedom and discipline. In some of Mendelssohn's more lyrical moments...you need a metronome to judge his rhythmic flexibility,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2014, Orchestral Choice
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Special offer. Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Sextet; Piano Quartet; Piano Trio
RecommendedKaleidoscope Chamber Collective
The Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective continue to go from strength to strength. Their explorations of neglected repertoire from marginalised groups are not merely a much-needed contribution to... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th July 2022
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Special offer. Hummel - Piano Concertos
RecommendedStephen Hough (piano)
English Chamber Orchestra, Bryden Thomson
The finest of Hummel's Piano Concertos, dynamically projected by the young Stephen Hough. —
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Gramophone Awards, 1987, Winner - Concerto
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In this warmly recorded release, John Wilson appears to get the balance just right. There’s plenty of heft as well as requisite warmth in the big orchestral climaxes, for instance near the end... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th April 2023
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the RSNO under Peter Oundjian manage very effectively to project this single sweep of sound from beginning to end. Brass and percussion stand out for all the right reasons...but it's really... —
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Special offer. A Vision in A Dream - Concertos By Edward Gregson
Ross Knight (tuba), Edward Gregson (piano), Rachel Roberts (viola), Jennifer Galloway (oboe), BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon
This release focuses on three concertos that between them tellingly underline the evolution of his idiom throughout those intervening decades but are audibly and gratifyingly his music alone. —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2025, Editor's Choice
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It’s all too easy to cast a glib ear across these wonderful tunes and the enormous creative skill that gave rise to them...and this second volume of John Wilson’s latest survey of the orchestral... —
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Special offer. Handel: Flavio
Tim Mead (Flavio), Rosemary Joshua (Emilia), Iestyn Davies (Guido), Renata Pokupić (Vitige), Hilary Summers (Teodata), Thomas Walker (Ugone), Andrew Foster-Williams (Lotario)
Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn
Flavio has some fine music, but is rarely performed...The aria 'Amante stravagante'...nicely displays [Joshua's] bright, silvery tone...The vocal star is Renata Pokupic as Vitige. Her 'Non credo'... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Baroque Vocal
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Special offer. Parry: Judith
RecommendedSarah Fox (soprano), Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano), Toby Spence (tenor), Henry Waddington (bass-baritone)
Crouch End Festival Chorus, London Mozart Players, William Vann
On the evidence of these CDs, conductor William Vann totally believes in this piece; he offers a compelling reading, drawing from the excellent Crouch End Festival Chorus and LMP (all of whom... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st February 2020
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Record Review, 7th March 2020, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2020, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Choral
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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