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Elgar: The Longed-for Light RecommendedElgar's Music in Wartime
Simon Callow (speaker), Simon Callow (speaker) & Susan Gritton (soprano)
BBC Concert Orchestra, John Wilson
Here's a supremely enjoyable Elgar survey centred around a clutch of works composed during the Great War...Throughout, the BBC Concerto Orchestra respond with bright-eyed conviction and commendable... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th November 2012
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2013, Editor's Choice
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Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 RecommendedSusan Gritton (soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Christopher Maltman (baritone)
Wroclaw Philharmonic Choir, Gabrieli Young Singers Scheme, Trebles of The Choir of New College Oxford & Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh
[McCreesh's] New College choristers have the ideal mix of celestial glow and nimble impatience; his orchestra is wonderfully articulate. And the sound picture has the greatest depth of range... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Choral Award Winner
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Brian: Symphony No. 1 'Gothic' RecommendedSusan Gritton (soprano), Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano), Peter Auty (tenor), Alastair Miles (bass) & David Goode (organ)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Concert Orchestra, The Bach Choir, BBC National Chorus of Wales, Brighton Festival Chorus, CBSO Youth Chorus, Côr Caerdydd, Eltham...
the best [recording] yet. There's an ongoing buzz of Proms atmosphere that grips from start to finish; and the recorded sound succeeds phenomenally at somehow fitting Brian's hugest climaxes... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th November 2011
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2012, Editor's Choice
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Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony Susan Gritton (soprano) & Gerald Finley (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Richard Hickox
The choral singing is as alert and secure as one would expect from Hickox, and the balance with the orchestra is well judged too… Gerald Finley…a noble, warm-toned baritone soloist… — More…
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Vaughan Williams: The Pilgrim's Progress RecommendedGerald Finley (baritone), Peter Coleman-Wright (baritone), Jeremy White (bass), Richard Coxon (tenor), Roderick Williams (bass), Gidon Saks (bass), Francis Egerton (tenor), Rebecca Evans (soprano), Susan Gritton (soprano), Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano), Anne-Marie Owens (mezzo-soprano), Mark...
John Noble was a fine Pilgrim on the old Boult recording, but Gerald Finley brings not only a voice that's as good and well suited but also a dramatic quality that is more colourful and intense.... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Britten: Albert Herring Christopher Gillett (Albert), Josephine Barstow (Lady Billows), Gerald Finley (Sid), Ann Taylor (Nancy), Felicity Palmer (Florence Pike), Robert Lloyd (Budd), Peter Savidge (Mr Gedge), Della Jones (Mum), Susan Gritton (Miss Wordsworth), Stuart Kale (Mr Upfold)
Northern Sinfonia, Steuart Bedford
Vivid as Hickox's traversal of the score for Chandos may be, Bedford's is just that much more alert, crisper. With his long experience of Britten in the theatre, dating back to Death in Venice... — More…
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The English Song Series Volume 6 - Gustav Holst Susan Gritton (soprano), Philip Langridge (tenor), Christopher Maltman (baritone), Louisa Fuller (violin), Steuart Bedford (piano)
The Four Songs for voice and violin, settings of medieval texts, were inspired by the composer hearing one of his pupils singing to herself and playing her violin in Thaxted Church.They're singularly... — More…
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Britten: Peter Grimes John Graham-Hall (Peter Grimes), Susan Gritton (Ellen Orford), Christopher Purves (Balstrode), Felicity Palmer (Auntie), Ida Falk Winland (First Niece), Simona Mihai (Second Niece), Peter Hoare (Bob Boles), Daniel Okulitch (Swallow), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Mrs. Sedley), Christopher Gillett (Rev. Horace...
[Grimes is] no tough fisherman but a seedy inadequate cringing from the local teenagers, and suggesting all too contemporary abuse problems. John Graham-Hall evokes his contorted inner life superbly,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2013, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Britten: Peter Grimes John Graham-Hall (Peter Grimes), Susan Gritton (Ellen Orford), Christopher Purves (Balstrode), Felicity Palmer (Auntie), Ida Falk Winland (First Niece), Simona Mihai (Second Niece), Peter Hoare (Bob Boles), Daniel Okulitch (Swallow), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Mrs. Sedley), Christopher Gillett (Rev. Horace...
[Grimes is] no tough fisherman but a seedy inadequate cringing from the local teenagers, and suggesting all too contemporary abuse problems. John Graham-Hall evokes his contorted inner life superbly,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2013, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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