Chandos
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Special offer. Britten: Owen Wingrave
Peter Coleman-Wright (Owen Wingrave), Robin Leggate ( Sir Philip Wingrave/Narrator), Elizabeth Connell (Miss Wingrave), Janice Watson (Mrs. Coyle), Sarah Fox (Mrs. Julien), Alan Opie (Spencer Coyle), Pamela Helen Stephen (Kate) & James Gilchrist (Lechmere)
City of London Sinfonia, Richard...
Hickox's excellent cast boasts some supreme exponents. Hickox draws haunting colours and chordings from his City of London Sinfonia, and the recording is flawlessly presented. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Opera
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2008, Editor's Choice
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Williams sings intelligently, thoughtfully and beautifully, and both he and Burnside give the impression of having rethought and re-examined every song; they are also unusually faithful to Schubert’s... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Britten: War Requiem
RecommendedHeather Harper (soprano). Philip Langridge (tenor), Martyn Hill (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (bass-baritone), Roderick Elms (organ)
London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Choristers of St Paul's Cathedral, Richard Hickox
'Drawing on a disciplined and dedicated response from his London Symphony forces, Hickox masterminds a stirring display (ideally balanced by the Couzens production team) that scales genuine... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1992, Winner - Choral
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Gramophone Awards, 1992, Winner - Engineering
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These works sound as if written at the turn of the 20th century, certainly by an admirer of Scriabin’s Divine Poem. Both, in fact, date from the 1950s…The Bournemouth Symphony play the music... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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Finzi: Violin Concerto, etc.
RecommendedTasmin Little (violin), John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
Finzi began work on his Concerto for small orchestra and solo violin in 1925, dedicating it to Sybil Eaton, a talented young violinist and the object of the 24-year-old composer's unrequited... —
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Building a Library, December 2006, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2001, Editor's Choice
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Unless it’s my imagination, there’s a magical and deeply touching, almost nostalgic hue to this one, as if enjoying the company of a beloved old friend before parting —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2022, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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Respighi: Belkis, Queen of Sheba & Metamorphoseon
RecommendedPhilharmonia Orchestra, Geoffrey Simon
Superb playing from the Philharmonia, treated to one of the finest recordings that even Chandos has produced. Indeed, this mid-1980s CD received one of the many Gramophone Engineering Awards... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1986, Winner - Engineering
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Busoni: Fantasia contrappuntistica, Chopin Variations, Sonatina prima & seconda
Peter Donohoe (piano), Karl Lutchmayer (piano)
This is the second release in Peter Donohoe’s ongoing exploration of Busoni’s solo piano works. And he is to be congratulated on his tenacity in bringing out both the intermittent splendours... —
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Both books of Goyescas (1909-12) , as their subtitle ‘o Los majos enamorados’ suggests, are essentially sensual and/or passionate love poems, something that Xiayin Wang conveys with sensitivity... —
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