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Vaughan Williams, Howells, Delius & Elgar - Music for Strings RecommendedSinfonia of London, John Wilson
The sound, engineered by Ralph Couzens, is magnificent...While fully relishing the at times dreamy polyphony of Vaughan Williams’s textures, Wilson’s Fantasia has sharp, impassioned edges too,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd February 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2023, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2023, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Finalist - Orchestral
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Recording of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Winner - Orchestral
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Howells: Requiem & other works RecommendedSimon Bland (organ), Hannah Partridge (soprano), Jeremy Cole (organ), Gwilym Bowen (tenor), Laurence Williams (bass), Hannah Partridge (soprano) & Amy Lyddon-Towl (alto)
Trinity College Choir Cambridge, Stephen Layton
In a work intended to console, it's important that the actual sound the choir makes is warmly consoling. It certainly is in this new Trinity College recording of Howells's 1932 Requiem...It's... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2012, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2012, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Choral
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Howells: Cello Concerto & An English Mass Guy Johnston (cello), Stephen Cleobury (organ)
Britten Sinfonia, King's College Choir Cambridge, King's Voices, Christopher Seaman
Seaman conducts a by turns atmospheric and lively account of the Concerto, while a movement of An English Mass – the ‘Credo’ – is conducted to striking effect by Ben Parry. Cleobury conducts... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Assorted Program
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Howells: Collegium Regale 'King's College Cambridge Service' & other choral works
Owain Park (organ)
Trinity College Choir Cambridge, Stephen Layton
The Evening Service boasts some beautifully controlled singing from the sopranos in particular, their deft tapering of quiet dynamics in the Magnificat heightening the introspective quality of... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2016, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Choral
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Howells: Stabat Mater RecommendedBenjamin Hulett (tenor), Alison Hill (soprano)
The Bach Choir & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, David Hill
Though there is much emotional turbulence in this music, Hill maintains a compelling life and forward momentum in Howells's immensely contrapuntal score...The Bach Choir has a palpable vibrancy... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Choral
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I hadn’t expected Howells’s piano music to occupy such different sound-worlds to his better-known works, the spare Satie-esque whimsy of Harlequin Dreaming and the Debussy-ish Phantasy and Summer... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Anyone who enjoys, say, Grieg's Holberg Suite or Respighi's Ancient Airs and Dances will adore these treasurable, miniature distillations of the English Tudor tradition. Devoted performances... — More…
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Herbert Howells - Music for Violin and Piano RecommendedPaul Barritt (violin), Catherine Edwards (piano)
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Howells: Chamber Music String Quartet 'In Gloucestershire', Lady Audrey's Suite, Piano Quartet
Gould Piano Trio, David Adams (viola)
Dante Quartet
This disc contains music-making of such energy, clear-sightedness and passion that sceptics may wonder where Howells has been all their lives; enthusiasts, of course, will feel wholly vindicated.... — More…
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Howells: Missa Sabrinensis & Michael Fanfare RecommendedHelena Dix (soprano), Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano), Benjamin Hulett (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Bach Choir, David Hill
The combined forces certainly make a glorious noise, at its most impressive with the extensive Gloria section. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st May 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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