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This latest instalment of Chandos’s survey of Holst’s orchestral works is far more than a predictable beachcomber’s delight. The quality of the performances is a feast in itself, the BBC Philharmonic... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2018, Orchestral Choice
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Diapason d’Or, January 2019, Nouveauté
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The finest of Hummel's Piano Concertos, dynamically projected by the young Stephen Hough. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1987, Winner - Concerto
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Alice Mary Smith - Symphonies
RecommendedAngela Malsbury (clarinet)
London Mozart Players, Howard Shelley
Mendelssohn is clearly the guiding spirit here. But in movements like the delightfully capricious scherzo of the C minor Symphony, and in some of the striking modulations in the outer movements... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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New,
Offer, Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13; Arvo Part: de Profundis Albert Dohmen (baritone), Estonian National Male Choir, Bbc Philharmonic, John Storgards
John Storgårds has shown his affinity for the composer in every disc of this complete series of the Shostakovich symphonies (still in progress). Here, he does not strive after extremes or try... — More…
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Vaughan Williams: Valiant for Truth, Symphony No. 5, The Pilgrim Pavement & other works
RecommendedCarys Lane (soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox Singers, Richard Hickox
This is an exceptionally powerful yet deeply moving account of the Fifth. Aided by glowing, wide-ranging engineering, Hickox's is an urgently communicative reading. The first and third movements... — More…
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Building a Library, April 2003, First Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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When the glories of Haydn's late Masses have been widely appreciated, it's sad that Hummel's have been so neglected.
They are for chorus and orchestra alone, without soloists, which may have... — More…Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Finalist - Choral
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Gramophone Awards, 2003, Winner - Choral
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Little's stellar playing [is] brimming with gorgeous and glitz-free tone, plus a lovely range of light and shade...Little's spacious and serene way with The Lark Ascending is both beautiful,... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2014, Editor's Choice
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From the wonderful lyrical springboard opening right through to the final slow fade there’s a singing line that rises, falls and snakes its way through everything…The Serenade for Strings here... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, Orchestral Choice
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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet has a wonderfully light touch, imbuing 'Les collines d'Anacapri' with a skittish exuberance, or creating delicate wisps of mist in 'Brouillards' evoking Debussy's advice... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th May 2007
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Building a Library, March 2008, First Choice
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Building a Library, March 2018, Also Recommended
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Kenneth Fuchs: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
RecommendedAdam Walker (flute), Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
Conductor John Wilson and his colleagues in the Sinfonia of London do a masterful job of bringing these recorded premieres to what I hope will be a wide audience, and I shall greatly be anticipating... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th July 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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