Chandos
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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 & The Lark Ascending
Michael Davis (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra, Bryden Thomson
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Elgar: The Light of Life, Op. 29 'Lux Christi'
Arthur Davies (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (bass), Judith Howarth (soprano), Linda Finnie (contralto)
London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox
In the glorious orchestral 'Meditation' Hickox's conducting demonstrates a noble flexibility, sensitivity to dynamic nuance and feeling for climax. Equally the engineering, sumptuous yet detailed,... —
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His default style is a slightly austere transparency, and it’s often exquisitely poetic. And so it is with the first sonata on this release. This congenial work, composed in 1817, asks for a... —
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Stokowski's Symphonic Bach
Works by J S Bach, orchestrated by Leopold Stokowski
BBC Philharmonic, Matthias Bamert
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Elgar: Coronation Ode & The Spirit of England
Teresa Cahill (soprano), Anne Collins (contralto), Anthony Rolfe-Johnson (tenor), Gwynne Howell (bass)
Scottish National Orchestra, Sir Alexander Gibson
Gibson's performances combine fire and panache, and the recorded sound has an ideal Elgarian expansiveness, the choral tone rich and well focused, the orchestral brass given plenty of weight. —
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Special offer. Bloch, E: Concerto symphonique in B minor for piano & orchestra, etc.
Halida Dinova (piano)
St Petersburg State Capella Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Tchernushenko
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Special offer. Bizet: Carmen
Patricia Bardon (Carmen), Julian Gavin (Don José), Garry Magee (Escamillo), Mary Plazas (Micaëla), Toby Stafford-Allen (Moralès), Nicholas Garret (Zuniga)
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, New London Children's Choir, Philharmonia Orchestra, David Parry
