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Holst: A Winter Idyll & other orchestral works
Alexander Baillie (cello), Lorraine McAslan (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra, David Atherton
Holstians will need no urging to acquire this interesting, well-played and well-recorded disc. — More…
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Boult conducts Coates
RecommendedLondon Philharmonic Orchestra & New Philharmonia Orchestra, Adrian Boult
As ever, Coates's music has great craftsmanship as well as good tunes and, lightweight though it is, it lies firmly within the English tradition. Here Boult finds its affinities with Elgar in... — More…
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Building a Library, June 2011, Featured
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2007, Editor's Choice
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Rubbra: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 7 and Festival Overture
New Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley, Sir Adrian Boult
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Boult conducts Ireland
Eric Parkin (piano) & John Carol Case (baritone)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & London Philharmonic Choir, Sir Adrian Boult
it is well sung and played and a good deal of the impact of the writing comes through. The music itself is melodic, spacious in phrase and reaily enjoyable at its face value. The performance... — More…
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British Orchestral Premieres
Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, Karelia State Philharmonic Orchestra, Orion Symphony Orchestra, Michael Laus, Marius Stravinsky, Toby Purser
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Bantock: Omar Khayyám
RecommendedSarah Walker (contralto), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) & Brian Raynor Cook (baritone), Johanna Peters (contralto)
BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Norman Del Mar
This 1979 revival…is complete, and much livelier [than Handley’s performance] with equally fine soloists…it’s well coupled with other less rare Bantock, especially Fifine at the Fair, based... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Elizabeth Maconchy: Selected works
Manoug Parikian (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley, Barry Wordsworth
These works all testify to the strength of Elizabeth Maconchy's imagination...Handley directs superb, committed performances, vividly recorded, and Barry Wordsworth is equally impressive in... — More…
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The present two symphonies make for a pointed contrast in all respects. The Sixth (1956) is the shortest of the cycle…the much larger Seventh could hardly be more different…The work gave rise... — More…
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Frank Bridge: Dance Rhapsody, 'Rebus' Overture & Poems for Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite
How, one wonders, can such a rapturously tuneful work as Bridge's Dance Rhapsody (1908) be so shamefully neglected: it deserves to be as popular as, say, Ravel's La valse! The intense songfulness... — More…
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