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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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Vaughan Williams & Foulds: Piano Concertos
Howard Shelley (piano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley
There are four unequivocal masterpieces for piano and orchestra in English 20th-century music: Bax's Winter Legends, Frank Bridge's Phantasm and the two works recorded here.
Until the appearance... — More…CD
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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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Stanford: Piano Concerto No. 3 & Cello Concerto
Alexander Baillie (cello) & Malcolm Binns (piano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite
Stanford composed nine concertos, only four of which made it into print. The Cello Concerto in D minor is an early work dating from 1879-80.
Apart from the slow movement, the concerto was never... — More…CD
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Bantock: Overture to a Greek Tragedy, Holbrooke: The Birds of Rhiannon
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Vernon Handley, Nicholas Braithwaite
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Frank Bridge's exploratory late chamber works can sound reticent, elusive in performance. Not here: fire, drama and intense fantasy abound, but there's no lack of refined control or shaping... — More…
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Finzi: A Severn Rhapsody, Eclogue & other works
Rodney Friend (solo violin), Peter Katin (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult, Vernon Handley
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Grace Williams
Anthony Camden (oboe), Howard Snell (trumpet)
London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Groves, David Atherton
It is good to have this attractive programme of works restored to the catalogue, all by a woman composer who (rarely among twentieth-century female musicians) glowingly shows that she believes... — More…
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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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