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This is the first CD devoted to [Collins's] own highly enjoyable music...His most famous piece of all is the disarmingly simple Vanity Fair. First performed in 1952, this is the composition... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Widor: Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 1 & La Nuit de Walpurgis
World premiere recordings
Sergey Levitin (violin)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates
This valuable new release, the third volume in Martin Yates's Widor series, shows exactly why the Goethe-inspired score enjoyed success during the composer's lifetime…it is an orchestral tour... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, Orchestral Choice
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Vaughan Williams: The Blue Bird, Norfolk Rhapsodies & Music for an EFDS Masque
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates
Yates and the RSNO are admirably chipper exponents…Yates’s idiomatic orchestration of the composer’s handwritten piano score [for The Blue Bird] falls most agreeably on the ear…In summary, a... — More…
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Alan Rawsthorne - Practical Cats
narrated by Simon Callow, Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones
Baritone Jeremy Huw Williams is his usual reliable self in the Diptych, and everything is expertly paced and balanced, crisply played and brightly recorded. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2008, Editor's Choice
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Havergal Brian: Symphony No. 13 & Violin Concerto
Recorded: RSNO Centre, Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow, 31 May & 1 June 2012
Lorraine McAslan (violin)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
To be able to get along with Havergal Brian's exasperating talent, you need above-average reserves of patience...Ceaselessly up-for-it RSNO playing and Brabbins's firm direction together make... — More…
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Martin Yates conducts Bate, Arnell & Chisholm
Recorded: Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow, 17-18 September 2009
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates
Martin Yates and the RSNO seem understandably swept away with the gripping music, and excellent sound helps makes this very much one of the most impressive Dutton discs to have come my way — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2010, Editor's Choice
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Edward Elgar - The Spirit of England
Susan Gritton (soprano), Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Iain Farrington (organ)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, David Lloyd-Jones
Lloyd-Jones conducts a powerful performance, bitingly dramatic in 'The Fourth of August', with the chorus in superb form...Susan Gritton sings brightly and with clarity...a fascinating disc,... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Choral
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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 (new edition)
and works by Christopher Wright
Fenella Humphreys (violin), Christopher Watson (tenor)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Martin Yates
Wright's idiom - both listener-friendly and superbly skilled, with never a wasted note - has no problems sustaining a 35-minute design. Violinist Fenella Humphreys responds to its elegiac reflection... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, Orchestral Choice
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Havergal Brian: Symphonies Nos. 5, 19 & 27
Roderick Williams (baritone)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Brabbins and his Scottish forces pounce on every glinting detail and quirk…Roderick Williams squeezes every lyrical drop from the sometimes arid vocal line, though it's the orchestral details... — More…
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