Lyrita
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The present two symphonies make for a pointed contrast in all respects. The Sixth (1956) is the shortest of the cycle…the much larger Seventh could hardly be more different…The work gave rise... — More…
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Richard Blackford: La Sagrada Familia Symphony & Babel, A Cantata Rebecca Bottone (soprano), Alessandro Fisher (tenor), Stephen Gadd (baritone)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Ikon Singers & Ensemble, Richard Blackford, David Hill
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David Pyatt was only 20 or so when these recordings were made in the mid 1990s… His playing is musical and easily virtuosic - qualities on display in all these works, three of which were originally... — More…
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…in the First Concerto… Ogdon… presents…a more measured, epic view of the work, by turns lushly Ravelian (the slow movement here is exquisitely done) and monumental. Bernard Herrmann puts a... — More…
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Rawsthorne: Symphonic Studies
Malcolm Binns (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Pritchard, Nicholas Braithwaite
Without losing the necessary edge in the writing, Malcolm Binns (creating their stereo debut in 1979) brings out the expressiveness of the music...The LPO under Pritchard plays with evident enjoyment... — More…
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Bantock: Omar Khayyám
RecommendedSarah Walker (contralto), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) & Brian Raynor Cook (baritone), Johanna Peters (contralto)
BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Norman Del Mar
This 1979 revival…is complete, and much livelier [than Handley’s performance] with equally fine soloists…it’s well coupled with other less rare Bantock, especially Fifine at the Fair, based on... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Vaughan Williams & Foulds: Piano Concertos
Howard Shelley (piano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley
There are four unequivocal masterpieces for piano and orchestra in English 20th-century music: Bax's Winter Legends, Frank Bridge's Phantasm and the two works recorded here.
Until the appearance... — More…CD
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Eric Parkin's… is completely inside Ireland's idiom, well understanding the darker emotional complexities and yearnings that may underlie a seemingly casual phrase or carefree melodic line. — More…
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British String Concertos
Lorraine McAslan (violin), Alexander Baillie (cello), Kenneth Sillito (violin), Emanuel Hurwitz (cello), Cecil Aronowitz (viola), Rodney Friend (violin), Raphael Wallfisch (cello), John Georgiadis (violin), Rohan de Saram (cello), Yfrah Neaman (violin), Manoug Parikian (violin), Erich Gruenberg (violin),...
this is an historic collection for all sorts of reasons. These recordings will be listened to for many years to come. The heyday of Lyrita was an extraordinarily rich period for British music... — More…
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Boult conducts Coates
RecommendedLondon Philharmonic Orchestra & New Philharmonia Orchestra, Adrian Boult
As ever, Coates's music has great craftsmanship as well as good tunes and, lightweight though it is, it lies firmly within the English tradition. Here Boult finds its affinities with Elgar in... — More…
Awards:
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Building a Library, June 2011, Featured
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2007, Editor's Choice
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