British Music - up to 25% off
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Birtwistle: Angel Fighter Andrew Watts (Angel) & Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts (Jacob)
BBC Singers & London Sinfonietta, David Atherton
Birtwistle unleashes all his powers as a stage composer onto Stephen Plaice's text, using the whole building to create a thrilling dramatisation of the Bible story…pungent pizzicato rhythms,... — More…
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Contemporary
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Birtwistle: The Moth Requiem RecommendedRoderick Williams (baritone)
BBC Singers & Nash Ensemble, Nicholas Kok
This is a wonderful and important release of his powerful and often delicate works. Best, perhaps, to begin with On the Sheer Threshold of the Night, which is a kind of spin-off from The Mask... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Contemporary
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Birtwistle: The Mask of Orpheus RecommendedBBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers, Andrew Davis and Martyn Brabbins
Birtwistle's opera is about the Orpheus myth, but the familiar story has been fragmented. Each of the principal characters is represented by two singers and a (silent) dancer, and much of what... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1998, Winner - Contemporary
3 CDs
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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 on... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
4 CDs
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Judith Weir - The Welcome Arrival of Rain Ailish Tynan (soprano)
BBC Singers & BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
The performances, under the ever-reliable Martyn Brabbins, are excellent, with Ailish Tynan a personable soloist in Natural History. The recordings are clear and bright, like the music itself. — More…
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The bright, jangling soundworld of Judith Weir's All the Ends of the Earth immediately cleanses the aural palate...the BBC Singers bring their customary high standards of versatility and exectuion... — More…
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McCabe writes that he composes carols 'as relaxation from sterner stuff'. It is classy relaxation...[I Sing of a Maiden] is raptly atmospheric and consummately crafted, while the writing for... — More…
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Anthony Payne: Phoenix Mass Susan Bradshaw (piano), Jane Manning (soprano)
BBC Singers & Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, The Nash Ensemble, Jane’s Minstrels, John Poole, Lionel Friend
If you only know Anthony Payne through his excellent realisation of Elgar's Third Symphony, his own music may come as a surprise, especially the early works on this disc...[The World's Winter]... — More…
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Lennox Berkeley: Nelson - Opera in three acts Elizabeth Bainbridge (mezzo-soprano), Eiddwen Harrhy (soprano), Brian Rayner Cook (baritone), Philip O'Reilly, David Johnston (tenor), Roger Heath, Mary Thomas (mezzo-soprano), Margaret Kingsley (mezzo-soprano), Richard Angas (bass), Eric Shilling (baritone), Richard Jackson (baritone), Francis Egerton...
Berkeley doesn’t altogether escape [Britten's] musical influence, but there’s an inherent flow to the drama...David Johnston leads a strong British cast, and inhabits the title role with confidence,... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2021, Historical Choice
2 CDs
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The BBC Singers work their usual wonders in making anything you throw at them sound confident and fully assimilated...The performance, conducted by David Hill, is again wonderfully resourceful... — More…
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