EM Records
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David Owen Norris's attractive settings of Donne, Sassoon and others are followed by Britten's magnificent Donne cycle. Strong performances. —
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Norris, D O: Prayerbook
Peter Savidge (baritone), Fiona Hymns & Lauren Fowler (sopranos), David Coram (organ), Hari Eustace, Andy White & Adrian Cleverley (trombones), Robert Domingue (trumpet), Keith Price (timpani), Carmen King, Peter Bridgwood, Jamie Harris & Steven Grahl (hand-chimes), Joe Manghan (tubular...
The performance, under the composer’s direction, is strongly committed. Peter Savidge is excellent; the less experienced Fiona Hymns is not at his level though she offers some ardent singing... —
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Holst, Walford Davies & Vaughan Williams: Works for Violin and Piano
Rupert Marshall-Luck (violin) & Matthew Rickard (piano)
[the Vaughan Williams's] lively profusion of ideas demands as fully committed performance as it receives here. Similarly fine advocacy is given to Walford Davies's Sonata in E flat. —
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Carols from Coventry - A Tribute to Sir David Willcocks
Kerry Beaumont (organ)
Saint Michael’s Singers, Paul Leddington Wright
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By avoiding fussy rhetoric and allowing Holst’s setting to speak serenely on its own terms, they find the music’s effortless nobility, even if they cannot make its fortissimo ending sound other... —
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The God Marduk: Works For Violin, Viola And Piano by Andrew Downes
Rupert Marshall-Luck (violin/viola), Duncan Honeybourne (piano)
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Songs & Sonnets - Songs In English and German from the Reign of Queen Victoria
Belinda Williams (mezzo-soprano), Mark Wilde (tenor), David Owen Norris (piano)
Belinda Williams and tenor Mark Wilde bring disarming freshness, agility and intelligence to this rewarding repertoire. Norris, too, lends wonderfully idiomatic support throughout, the gratifying... —
