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De Falla: El Sombrero de tres picos - Albeniz: Iberia Suite
RecommendedJill Gomez (soprano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier
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Building A Library, July 2026, Top Choice - The Three-Cornered Hat
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The Film Music of Brian Easdale
Cynthia Millar (ondes martenot)
BBC National Chorus of Wales & BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Rumon Gamba
this excellent CD puts [Easdale] back where he belongs, in the top rank of film composers...The young voices of the BBC National Chorus of Wales add a vivid and dynamic dimension to both of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2011, Editor's Choice
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Britten: Violin Concerto & Piano Concerto
RecommendedTasmin Little (violin), Howard Shelley (piano)
BBC Philharmonic, Edward Gardner
Shelley and Edward Gardner create something more mercurial [than Britten's own reading], Gardner conjuring that lithe, high-tension drama he has so successfully achieved with Britten's stage... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2013, Disc of the Month
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Building a Library, March 2018, Also recommended
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Vincent d’Indy - Orchestral Works Volume 5
Louis Lortie (piano)
Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Rumon Gamba
For me, the palm goes to the delightful and generally ignored Saugefleurie, where duty bows before inspiration. Throughout, the playing is warm and unfussy. —
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The Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective are renowned for their eagerness when it comes to expanding the repertoire… moments of striking beauty and its high-spirited virtuosity, along with its canny... —
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Howard Shelley's light touch, fresh and colourful orchestral playing, and excellent recording, make this very well worth hearing on its own account, not simply as a rediscovered rarity. —
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Sir Richard Rodney Bennett: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2
Howard McGill (tenor saxophone), Gordon Rigby (timpani), Scott Dickinson (viola), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, John Wilson
The performances of all these works, under the composer’s friend John Wilson, are exemplary. The players of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra treat Bennett’s melodic lines with just the expressive... —
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[the Third Symphony is] an immensely attractive work, the folk melodies with their distinctly Belorussian and Polish inflections skilfully woven into the symphonic fabric and clothed in imaginative... —
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Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 and 5 'Egyptian'
Louis Lortie (piano), BBC Philharmonic, Edward Gardner
In all four works, the performing is of the highest standard. Louis Lortie is more than equal to Saint-Saëns’s fearsome virtuosity, but alongside heaven-storming finer work is a captivating... —
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Juno Awards, 2021, Nominated - Classical Album of the Year (Solo or Chamber)
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