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Dame Ethel Smyth: Mass in D & Overture to 'The Wreckers' RecommendedBBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Sakari Oramo
Oramo rises to the work’s ambition with a fiercely committed, highly persuasive reading that indulges generosity of scale and imagination while pinpointing the Mass’s many felicities of detail.... — More…
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Record Review, 5th October 2019, Disc of the Week
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th October 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Bliss: The Beatitudes, Introduction and Allegro & God save the Queen RecommendedEmily Birsan (soprano), Ben Johnson (tenor)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, Sir Andrew Davis
There is no doubting Sir Andrew Davis’s grasp of The Beatitudes, and he steers a broadly authoritative performance, with incisive, committed playing from the BBC Symphony Orchestra…Davis’s punchy,... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Britten: Billy Budd RecommendedJohn Mark Ainsley (Captain Vere), Jacques Imbrailo (Billy Budd), Phillip Ens (Claggart), Iain Paterson (Mr Redburn), Matthew Rose (Mr Flint), Darren Jeffery (Lieutenant Ratcliffe), Alasdair Elliott (Red Whiskers), John Moore (Donald), Jeremy White (Dansker), Ben Johnson (Novice), Colin Judson (Squeak)...
[Elder paces] the developing tragedy with airily lyrical detail and brooding, ominous power. John Mark Ainsley' s plangent, dark-toned tenor and intense diction show us a more neurotic Vere than... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd May 2011
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, DVD Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2011, DVD Choice
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Britten: Billy Budd RecommendedJohn Mark Ainsley (Captain Vere), Jacques Imbrailo (Billy Budd), Phillip Ens (Claggart), Iain Paterson (Mr Redburn), Matthew Rose (Mr Flint), Darren Jeffery (Lieutenant Ratcliffe), Alasdair Elliott (Red Whiskers), John Moore (Donald), Jeremy White (Dansker), Ben Johnson (Novice), Colin Judson (Squeak)...
[Elder paces] the developing tragedy with airily lyrical detail and brooding, ominous power. John Mark Ainsley' s plangent, dark-toned tenor and intense diction show us a more neurotic Vere than... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd May 2011
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, DVD Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2011, DVD Choice
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Britten: Canticles I-V Ben Johnson (tenor), James Baillieu (piano), Christopher Ainslie (countertenor), Benedict Nelson (baritone), Martin Owen (horn) & Lucy Wakeford (harp)
the expressive nuance of James Baillieu's piano accompanying is reminiscent of Britten's own...Johnson is at his best in Still Falls the Rain and in The Death of Narcissus, in writing that reveals... — More…
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Britten: Complete Songs Volume 1 Malcolm Martineau (piano), James Geer (tenor), Ben Johnson (tenor), Caryl Hughes (mezzo), Philip Smith (baritone), Nicky Spence (tenor), Katherine Broderick (soprano), Robin Tritschler (tenor), Andrew Tortise (tenor)
James Geer, a tenor with an instinct for the inflection of poetry that matches the composer's own, offers 'A Dirge'...Katherine Broderick brings by turns a forlorn beauty and a fiery plangency... — More…
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