Hyperion
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A Christmas Caroll from Westminster Abbey
RecommendedRobert Quinney (organ)
The Choir of Westminster Abbey, James O’Donnell
An ambitious and superbly sung programme, sympathetically framed within the choir's spaciously atmospheric home acoustic. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th December 2008
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The Romantic Violin Concerto 10 - Cliffe & Erlanger
Philippe Graffin (violin)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, David Lloyd-Jones
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales under the inspired baton of David Lloyd-Jones play these demanding scores with such glowing sophistication and confidence it seems scarcely believable they... —
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...the technical challenges are met with ease, as in the gear-change from duple to triple time at 'Qui ex Patre', and the 'jubilant' aspects of this celebratory work are enhanced by the high... —
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Record Review, December 2010, Critics' Disc of the Year
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Tanja Becker-Benda offers absolutely stunning playing throughout this warmly recorded disc. She makes light work of the formidable technical challenges in the opening Allegro con fuoco of the... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2011, Disc of the month
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Handel: L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato
Susan Gritton, Claron McFadden, Lorna Anderson, Paul Agnes, Neal Davies
The King's Consort, Robert King
This is the first truly complete recording of Handel's delectable pastoral ode. The early numbers of L'Allegro – literally 'the cheerful man' – have a spontaneous exuberance barely matched in... —
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 32 - Moscheles
Howard Shelley (piano/conductor)
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
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This CD was a revelation - this is great music played with impeccable artistry and flawlessly recorded, one of the best solo piano records I've heard in the past ten years —
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Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
Marcus Farnsworth (baritone), Elizabeth Llewellyn (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra & BBC Symphony Chorus, Martyn Brabbins
The BBC Symphony Orchestra makes its own vividly virtuosic contribution, not least in the scherzo movement, ‘The waves’; credit is due also to Martyn Brabbins, in expert control of the work’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2018, Editor's Choice
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Bach, J S: Christmas Oratorio, BWV248
RecommendedKatherine Watson (soprano), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), James Gilchrist (tenor) & Matthew Brook (bass)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Trinity College Choir Cambridge, Stephen Layton
Layton unwraps it with all due festive pomp and circumstance...In a work incontestably smitten with the alto voice, Iestyn Davies triumphs...Gilchrist's relaxed and lyrical Evangelist maintains... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd December 2013
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