Britten: Lachrymae for viola & strings, Op. 48a (page 1 of 3)

Edward Gardner conducts Britten

Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Maxim Rysanov (viola)

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner

The Charm is a total winner, wrapped by Matthews in string woodwind sleep-music so familiar from the Nocturne and phrased by Connolly with alternate tenderness and edginess. Maxim Rysanov compels... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2011, More…

Release Date: 26th Apr 2011
Catalogue No: CHAN10671
Label: Chandos
Length: 73 minutes

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Britten: Works for String Orchestra

Catherine Bullock (viola)

Camerata Nordica, Terje Tønnesen

The Britten centenary can't have produced finer recorded performances than these, with wonderful dynamic shading, bombproof tuning, and real drama. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2013, More…

Release Date: 30th Sep 2013
Catalogue No: BIS2060
Label: BIS
Length: 80 minutes

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Britten - Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge

Jean-Paul Minali-Bella (arpegina)

European Camerata, Laurent Quénelle

To find a continental ensemble concentrating on Britten is something of a novelty, but this disc of string music contains performances of superb sensitivity. The Frank Bridge variations and the... — Sunday Times More…

Release Date: 31st Mar 2008
Catalogue No: FUG534
Label: Fuga Libera
Length: 71 minutes

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Britten: Violin Concerto & Double Concerto

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Anthony Marwood (violin), Anthony Marwood (violin) & Lawrence Power (viola), Lawrence Power (viola)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov

Aided by the alert Ilan Volkov, Anthony Marwood and Lawrence Power form a persuasive partnership...we are left in no doubt about the levels of searing commitment behind Marwood's performance.... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2012, More…

Release Date: 30th Jan 2012
Catalogue No: CDA67801
Label: Hyperion
Length: 64 minutes

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Britten: Orchestral and String Works

Rivka Golani (viola)

Ulster Orchestra, I Musici de Montreal, English Chamber Orchestra, Vernon Handley, Yuli Turovsky, Steuart Bedford

Catalogue No: CHAN241-2
Label: Chandos
Series: 241
Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

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Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings

Lorenzo Soulès (piano), Máté Szücs (viola), Richard Watkins (horn), Allan Clayton (tenor)

Aldeburgh Strings, Markus Däunert

In Britten’s buoyant Young Apollo Aldeburgh Strings field a greater weight and range of colour that Rattle’s CBSO, making the work sound more expressive and substantial, and Lorenzo Soulès is... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2016 More…

Release Date: 22nd Apr 2016
Catalogue No: CKD478
Label: Linn
Length: 54 minutes

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