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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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Special offer. 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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Special offer. Ernest Ansermet Conducts Ballet Music
RecommendedLondon Symphony Orchestra, Suisse Romande Orchestra, Ernest Ansermet
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Roderick Williams is a national treasure. Not only is he an intensely musical singer, acutely responsive to the sound and meaning of words, but also his approach to the English Romantic song... — More…
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Special offer. The Wesleys and Their Contemporaries
Jennifer Bate (organ of St. James’s Church, Bermondsey and Brangwyn Hall, Swansea)
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Special offer. 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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Special offer. Delius: Orchestral Music arranged for two pianos Volume 1
Simon Callaghan & Hiroaki Takenouchi (pianos)
the Steinway concert grands seem right in your living room, lending new clarity to textures and nuances sometimes mislaid in the orchestral haze. It also helps that Simon Callaghan and Hiroaki... — More…
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Special offer. “Handel at Home” – Arias arranged for flute, strings & harpsichord
London Handel Players, Laurence Cummings
The six musicians featured on this disc are all principal players of the London Handel Orchestra. Their consummate musicianship is consistently delightful: sparkling violin-playing (often with... — More…
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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... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2010, Editor's Choice
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Bebbington's playing is always sensitively nuanced, every phrase expressively shaped and pedalled, without losing sight of each piece's overall thrust and import. Buy with confidence. — More…
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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... — More…
