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Elgar: Enigma Variations
& other orchestral works
Florence Daguerre de Hureaux (narrator), Yann Ghiro (clarinet)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Exceptional Elgar. ‘Nimrod’ has the grandeur of a Bruckner slow movement. —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2016, Disc of the month
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Special offer. Elgar: Falstaff, Orchestral Songs; Grania and Diarmid
Roderick Williams (baritone)
BBC Philharmonic, Sir Andrew Davis
The performances of the songs are ardent, warm and full of conviction. As ever Roderick Williams sounds completely on the composer’s side. But after Falstaff it’s all too clear that they really... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2018, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2018, Winner - Symphonique
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Diapason d’Or, April 2018, Nouveauté
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The Songs of Edward Elgar
Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo soprano), Neil Mackie (tenor), Christopher Maltman (baritone) & Malcolm Martineau (piano)
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Newby, who turns 30 this year, has the kind of powerful natural presence that also belongs to Bryn Terfel, and the timbre of his voice has come to resemble Terfel’s in its plummy warmth and... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Elgar: The Hills Of Dreamland
Orchestral Songs and Complete Incidental Music to Grania and Diarmid
Kathryn Rudge (mezzo), Henk Neven (baritone)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth
Rudge is in refulgent voice for the darkly passionate Op. 60 diptych of 1910…[Neven] gives a splendidly lusty account of ‘The Pipes of Pan’. Elsewhere, Neven and Wordsworth make out an unexpectedly... —
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[Victorian parlour repertoire] proves both admirably suited to her distinctively creamy yet expressive voice, and occasionally revelatory...The well-structured programme concludes with Holst's... —
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Elgar - Songs and Piano Music
David Owen Norris (piano), The Works: Amanda Pitt (soprano), Mark Wilde (tenor) & Peter Savidge (baritone)
A veritable treasure-trove. —
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Her Song - Orchestral Songs & Arias
Recorded: The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, 27-29 January 2009
Susan Gritton (soprano) & Cynthia Fleming (solo violin)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Throughout Gritton is musically purposeful… while Martyn Brabbins and the BBC players do a fine job. —
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Love’s Old Sweet Song
Songs from British composers, 1823-1945
Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano) & James Baillieu (piano)
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Johnson's full, lustrous tone and floating higher notes, decidedly unlike today's typical 'English' tenor, suit this repertoire well. With James Baillieu's strong if unobtrusive support, he... —
