Smyth
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Ethel Smyth: Der Wald
RecommendedNatalya Romaniw (Röschen), Claire Barnett-Jones (Iolanthe), Robert Murray (Heinrich), Andrew Shore (A Peddler), Morgan Pearse (Count Rudolf), Matthew Brook (Peter), BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, John Andrews
Der Wald may not be such an outstanding piece [as The Wreckers], but it is well worth getting to know. While Harry Brewster’s somewhat naïve libretto holds it back, Smyth’s score shows an impressive... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023, World Premiere Recording (Rediscovery)
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Dame Ethel Smyth: Mass in D & Overture to 'The Wreckers'
RecommendedBBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Sakari Oramo
Oramo rises to the work’s ambition with a fiercely committed, highly persuasive reading that indulges generosity of scale and imagination while pinpointing the Mass’s many felicities of detail.... — More…
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Record Review, 5th October 2019, Disc of the Week
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th October 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Smyth: The Prison
RecommendedSarah Brailey, Dashon Burton, Experiential Orchestra and Chorus, James Blachly
Smyth was much influenced by neo-Platonism and appended a line from Plotinus to The Prison, suggesting that music was a means to releasing the divine in us, Soloists and chorus convey that very... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Winner - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Choral
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Tasmin Little plays Clara Schumann, Dame Ethel Smyth & Amy Beach
RecommendedTasmin Little (violin) & John Lenehan (piano)
This delightful, beautifully performed album makes an emphatic, seemingly effortless case for these composers’ music. — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2019, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2019, Chamber Choice
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Building A Library, January 2022, Featured Recording
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Politics aside, the repertoire is of ten tremendous fun, balancing lyricism and drama, humour, dance, the old (early Romantic) and the new, as well as the ‘serious’ and ‘folk ’. The sequencing... — More…
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The Neave’s way with [the Smyth] is expansive, with an attractive warmth of tone in the interlocking string phrases of the outer movements and playing at once weighty and admirably restrained... — More…
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This most welcome second volume of British overtures serves to accentuate the sheer diversity of works this country produced in the genre between the 1890s and the 1940s and, moreover, where... — More…
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Dame Ethel Smyth: Songs and Ballads
Lucy Stevens (contralto), Elizabeth Marcus (piano), Berkeley Ensemble, Odaline de la Martinez
Smyth produced many songs that could hold their own in any Lieder recital…The crowning glory of this collection, nevertheless, is the opening work, the Four Songs for voice and chamber orchestra... — More…
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The Mannheimers respond devotedly and with the freshness of a new discovery. — More…
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Full marks to the Villiers Quartet for bringing this new and challenging repertoire to life. — More…
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