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The Early Byrd
Early works for voices, viols and virginals
Sophie Yates (virginals)
I Fagiolini, Fretwork
This disc adopts an imaginative approach to programming Byrd's music by presenting works in different genres grouped together to demonstrate a single stage in his development. It includes Latin... —
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Special offer. Puccini: Madam Butterfly
Cheryl Barker (Butterfly), Jean Rigby (Suzuki), Paul Charles Clarke (Pinkerton), Gregory Yurisich (Sharpless), Stuart Kale (Goro), D'Arcy Bleiker (Yamadori), Clive Bayley (The Bonze)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Yves Abel
A clear recommendation for those wanting Butterfly in English; even those who don't will find Abel's handling of the score absorbing from first to last —
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Stravinsky: Firebird Suite, Liadov: Baba-Yaga & Rimsky Korsakov: Dubinushka
London Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
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The BBC Philharmonic is in cracking form at the moment…and in Juanjo Mena it has a chief conductor capable of leading it through the dance rhythms and moods of the Spanish-speaking world with... —
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Bax: Octet, String Quintet, Concerto for Septet & other chamber works
Margaret Fingerhut (piano)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble
This is a beautiful and enterprising collection of works by Bax. In Memoriam for cor anglais, harp and string quartet probably dates from 1917. It's subtitled 'An Irish Elegy'; like the Elegiac... —
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Ravel: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
Colin Stark, Charles Miller, Stephen Roberts, Ulster Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier
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Night Time Classics by Chandos
Miceál O'Rourke (piano), Louis Lortie (piano), Nobuko Imai (viola), Roger Vignoles (piano), Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano), Philip Edward Fisher, Barry Douglas (piano), Jennifer Pike (violin), Petr Limonov (piano), Imogen Cooper (piano), Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Julius Drake (piano), City of Birmingham...
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Special offer. Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea
Sung in English
Dame Janet Baker (Poppea), Robert Ferguson (Nerone), Anne Collins (Arnalta), Katherine Pring (Ottavia), Clifford Grant (Seneca), John Brecknock (Valletto), Elizabeth Gale (Amore), Shirley Chapman (Virtù), Barbara Walker (Drusilla/Fortuna)
Sadler’s Wells Orchestra & Orchestra, Raymond Leppard
Janet Baker's incredibly sophisticated portrayal of Poppea reveals that the work is as much about power as sex...this recording stands as a powerful and attractive monument to those epoch-making... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Historic
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In Ireland
Orchestral Works by Sir Hamilton Harty
Ralph Holme (violin), Malcolm Binns (piano), Heather Harper (soprano), Colin Fleming (flute), Denice Kelly (harp)
Ulster Orchestra, Bryden Thomson
Bryden Thomson's box gathers together Harty's major orchestral and concertante works with great success...Ralph Holmes gives a thoroughly committed account of the solo part [in the Violin Concerto]... —
