Chandos
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…Tsar's Bride… thrills with the riding rhythms of Ivan's rapacious followers, the oprichniki; Sinaisky takes it at a spacious but still exciting pace. The gentler but richly-hued aspects of... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Orchestral Choice
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Like to the Lark
Jennifer Pike (violin), Maria Forsström (mezzo-soprano)
The Swedish Chamber Choir, Simon Phipps
Listening to Simon Philipps’s immaculately accomplished Swedish Chamber Choir is rather like sinking gently into a warm bath bubbling over with your favourite scented lotions…This album combin[es]... —
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Record Review, 16th November 2019, Disc of the Week
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Op. 44/3 is the longest of the quartets, and the outer movements can sometimes come across as prolix. The Doric’s performance steers clear of this trap – again through the controlled variety... —
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Chamber
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The superior sound secured by the classic Chandos team does justice to these ambitiously passionate and self-indulgent scores and performances. —
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Doreen Carwithen: Piano Concerto, Bishop Rock, ODTAA, Suffolk Suite
Howard Shelley (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox
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Lili Boulanger - Faust et Hélène
RecommendedLynne Dawson (soprano), Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), Bonaventura Bottone (tenor), Neil MacKenzie (tenor), Jason Howard (bass)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Chorus, BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier
This disc largely duplicates Mark Stringer's programme on the Timpani label mentioned above (inevitably, since in her mere 24 years of life Lili's output was limited). The performances here... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2000, Winner - Choral
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Stokowski's Symphonic Bach, Volume 2
Works by J S Bach, orchestrated by Leopold Stokowski
BBC Philharmonic, Matthias Bamert
Extraordinary how Bach's influence on later composers can suddenly snap into focus in Stokowski's ingenious orchestrations - Brahms, Mendelssohn and Mahler are among the allusions. Excellent... —
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No quartet in my experience has employed such a wide range of colour and dynamics in this music, often with revelatory results…the Doric's daring, imaginative and technically superb performances... —
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Delius: Appalachia & The Song of the High Hills
Andrew Rupp (baritone), Olivia Robinson (soprano)
Christopher Bowen (tenor)
BBC Symphony Chorus & BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
Davis combines a sensitive feeling for tempo and shape with superfine detail of phrasing and balancing...The BBC Symphony Orchestra plays for its former chief conductor with precision and spirit,... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Choral
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2003, Editor's Choice
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