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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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Mezzo-soprano Sharon Carty and pianist Finghin Collins do this music proud...Boasting admirably truthful sound and balance to boot, this enterprising issue comes heartily recommended. — More…
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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 & Dona nobis pacem RecommendedRenee Flynn and Roy Henderson
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vaughan Williams
…the fervour, radiant warmth and sense of the symphony as a great journey - a 'passionate pilgrimage' - make this a uniquely compelling experience. …Dona Nobis Pacem ('Grant us peace'), It's... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th September 2008
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Record Review, December 2007, Critics Disc of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Winner - Historic Archive
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The Dream of Gerontius is notable for the singing of Richard Lewis – his New York debut – freer than in his later studio recording. Even more impressive is the Canadian contralto Maureen Forrester,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2022, Archive Issue of the Month
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Dedication: Ruth Gipps Peter Cigleris (clarinet), Gareth Hulse (oboe), Duncan Honeybourne (piano), Tippett Quartet
Gipps’s music is certainly rich in character...Cigleris, an indefatigable champion of British clarinet music, proves an attentive, big-hearted performer whose devotion to this repertoire is paying... — More…
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Elgar Remastered By Lani Spahr
Beatrice Harrison (cello), Princess Victoria H.R.H. (piano), Yehudi Menuhin (violin)
New Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonic Festival Choir, Sir Edward Elgar, Lawrance Collingwood
So many details in the First Symphony stand out as never before. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2016, Orchestral Choice
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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Some of the songs are set in an almost epigrammatic fashion, so that the listener’s attention is never allowed to waver. A. E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad has often been set to music, but Somervell... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2020
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Orchestral Music by Howard Blake Philharmonia Orchestra, English Northern Philharmonia, Howard Blake, Paul Daniel
Pride of place definitely goes to the eloquent string orchestra suite derived from music written for the 1997 film A Month in the Country...The score’s vintage English stamp (early twentieth... — More…
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A delightful selection of pieces, previously unrecorded. The light frippery on display is balanced by more calculated offerings like Memories of Sapphire. — More…
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Ralph Vaughan Williams: Live, Vol. 1 Bbc Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent
Scrubbing up under expert technological ablutions, the RPO under Sargent sounds simply electrifying in this live recording of the 1958 world premiere of Vaughan Williams’s craggy Symphony No... — More…
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2022
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