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Montague Phillips - Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
World premiere recordings
David Owen Norris (piano)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Gavin Sutherland
Purely for sound quality, this disc is a winner. It is a sumptuous, full-blooded recording with a richly resonant bass matched by the soloist's powerful Fazioli. Both concertos are real finds.... — More…
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York Bowen - Piano Concerto Nos. 2 & 3
Michael Dussek (piano)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Vernon Handley CBE
The Second and Third Piano Concertos, together with the ambitious SymphonicFantasia, make a fine follow-up to the coupling of the First Piano Concerto and Violin Concerto. Such largesse deserves... — More…
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Julius Harrison and Hubert Clifford
Matthew Trusler (violin), Andrew Knight (harp)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth
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Gordon Jacob: Complete Music for Viola and Orchestra
World premiere recordings
Helen Callus (viola)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Stephen Bell
in Helen Callus we have an outstanding player who is clearly dedicated to these works. In turn, she is quite superbly partnered by the BBC Concert Orchestra, whose fine playing here is surely... — More…
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These recordings of his large-scale solo string works with piano can only help to reinforce our awareness of his consummate mastery of extended musical forms in the demanding idiom of absolute... — More…
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Charles-Marie Widor Volume 2
Cello Concerto, Symphony No. 2 & Les Pêcheurs de Saint-Jean (excerpts)
Torleif Thedéen (cello)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates
Yates and the RSNO are also compelling in the vigorous Second Symphony (1882), but the highlight of the disc is the Cello Concerto. Torleif Thedeen's warm-toned playing of the solo part deserves... — More…
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English Music for Strings
Recorded at The Friary, Liverpool, 6-7 May 2009 & The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, 10 November 2009
Stephen Bell (solo horn)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Martin Yates
To avoid sounding mawkish, this kind of idiom needs a really focused sound in performance: Martin Yates conjures exactly that from the RLPO string section, which responds with serious class — More…
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Elgar: Concert Allegro
Iain Farrington (piano)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, George Vass (conductor)
Farrington's idealized versions is quite superb and his performance... really holds up the work as a significant addition to the repertoire...one can have little doubt that the piano arrangement... — More…
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Rebecca Clarke: Chamber Music
Lorraine McAslan (violin), Michael Ponder (viola), Justin Pearson (cello), Justin Farrell (clarinet, Ian Jones (piano)
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Ronald Corp - Piano Concerto No. 1
Recorded: Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, 15-16 June 2009
Leon McCawley (piano)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Ronald Corp
Dutton is certainly to be congratulated on offering such a worthwhile disc of British music otherwise likely to be neglected, superbly played and vividly recorded. — More…
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