Céleste
The Céleste series offers a variety of mid-price CDs – mostly new recordings of instrumental and chamber music, but also a number of historical recordings never before issued.
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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... —
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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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Ernest Ansermet Conducts Ballet Music
RecommendedLondon Symphony Orchestra, Suisse Romande Orchestra, Ernest Ansermet
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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…the Handel Players' performances are assured and surprisingly lyrical. —
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Elgar - Enigma Variations
Gladys Ripley (contralto)
London Symphony & Philharmonia Orchestra, George Weldon
Superb, astonishing performances from a most underrated conductor. Both orchestras play with non-stop intensity, with Glady's Ripley an exquisite soloist in Sea Pictures. Decent sound for... —
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Martin Roscoe and the Coull Quartet take [the Piano Quintet] seriously as chamber music...[and] demonstrate well enough what a coherently and originally argued work the mature Voces Intimae... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2010, Editor's Choice
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A Peter Warlock Christmas
Margaret Cable (mezzo-soprano), Matthew Morley (organ), Rosemary Barnes (piano)
Allegri Singers, Rosamunde String Quartet, Louis Halsey
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Sonatas Nos 1 and 4 benefit from the expressive eloquence of Rachel Brown's flute, and in the opening Andante of the B minor, she and Adrian Butterfield converse with flirtatious suppleness... —
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Britten's last quartet has been lucky in its recordings… With the Coull there's a sense of searching and effort, which suits the pain of the music more than the complete technical assurance... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2007, Editor's Choice
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…would Mendelssohn have approved of Jennifer Bate's performances? If he wasn't impressed by the easy fluency of her technique or her highly articulate and intelligent interpretations… then... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2006, Editor's Choice
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Joubert - Chamber and Instrumental Music
Patricia Rozario, Anna Joubert, Mark Bebbington & John McCabe
Brodsky Quartet
Pride of place foes to Joubert's 1977 Second Quartet, an impressive piece played with great conviction by the Brodsky Quartet, in the best recording of the set. —
