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Boughton: The Queen of Cornwall
A music-drama based on the play by Thomas Hardy
Heather Shipp (Queen Iseult), Joan Rodgers (Iseult of Brittany, the Whitehanded), Jacques Imbrailo (Sir Tristram), Patricia Orr (Brangwain), Neal Davies (King Mark), Peter Wilman (Sir Andret), Elizabeth Weisberg (Damsel)
New London Orchestra, Members of The London Chorus, Ronald Corp
If you can ignore the words, the writing for both voices and orchestra has a surging confidence that's very appealing, and the musical substance grows on one with repeated hearings. In a strong... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2011, Editor's Choice
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Opera, March 2011, Recording of the Month
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This is the first CD devoted to [Collins's] own highly enjoyable music...His most famous piece of all is the disarmingly simple Vanity Fair. First performed in 1952, this is the composition... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Ralph Vaughan Williams: Early and Late Works
Guy Johnston (cello)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates
The stand-out music...comes in Dark Pastoral. This is David Matthews's wonderfully skilled and imaginative, yet always-in-style completion of the slow movement of an unfinished cello concerto...Johnston's... — More…
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Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic – complete score
Ilona Domnich (soprano), Christopher Nickol (organ), Women of the Scottish National Orchestra Chorus (chorus)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates
Yates conducts with appropriate majesty, his slow tempos very close to Ernest Irvin’s in the film. The RSNO and chorus are in powerful form, and Ilona Domnich contributes a strikingly eerie... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Orchestral Choice
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Arne: The Judgment of Paris
Mary Bevan (Venus), Susanna Fairbairn (Pallas), Gillian Ramm (Juno), Ed Lyon (Paris), Anthony Gregory (Mercury), Andrew Mahon (bass)
The Brook Street Band, John Andrews
Expert in British esoterica, John Andrews secures generally cheerful and passionate performances from his cast and The Brook Street Band that certainly tickle the ear. But this is a curio, not... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2019
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Vaughan Williams: Concerto for Two Pianos & A London Symphony (1920 version)
Leon McCawley (piano), John Lenehan (piano)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates
At times we miss the focused punch of one piano's combat with the orchestra…yet 20 fingers certainly bring a heightened percussive charge in the final section's 'fuga chromatica'. Either way... — More…
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Jean-Michel Damase: Symphonie, Piano & Flute Concertos
Ashley Wass (piano), Anna Noakes (flute)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Martin Yates
Fusing the nobility of Faure with the neo-classical impulse of Les Six, Michel Damase's magical soundworlds cast a spell in these intensely devoted performances. — More…
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Schoenberg: Gurre-Lieder & Roussel: Symphony No. 3
Marita Napper (Tove), Jess Thomas (Waldemar), Yvonne Minton (Waldtaube), Kenneth Bowen (Klaus), Siegmund Nimsgern (Bauer), Gunther Reich (Speaker)
BBC Singers, BBC Choral Society, Goldsmith's Choral Union, London Philharmonic Choir, BBC Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Pierre Boulez
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New Music for Oboe - Volume 2
Melinda Maxwell (oboe, cor anglais), Anna Barton (oboe) & Alexia Pelling (oboe), Hugh Webb (harp), Richard Benjafield (percussion), Stephen Gutman (piano)
Melinda Maxwell is an outstanding musician. The range of colour and expression she brings to this music is phenomenal. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2007, Chamber Choice
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Davies, Walford: Everyman
Elena Ferrari (soprano), Jennifer Johnston (contralto), Andrew Staples (tenor) & Pauls Putnins (bass)
London Oriana Choir & Kensington Symphony Orchestra, David Drummond
Henry Walford Davies's splendid oratorio was written and first heard in 1904, in the shadow of Elgar's Gerontius. Yet it was an immediate success and widely performed. But by the end of the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2005, Editor's Choice
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