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Gabriel Jackson on Vox Clara
9th Aug 2016
David talks to British composer about his new disc on Regent with the Choir of Truro Cathedral, including the first recording of Missa Triueriensis.
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Contemporary Song Round-Up
13th Dec 2014
David talks to pianist Andrew Matthews-Owen about three new discs of British song, including works by Alun Hoddinott, Charlotte Bray and Jonathan Dove.
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Vasily Petrenko completes his cycle of Shostakovich symphonies
22nd Sep 2014
David listens to the final instalment in Vasily Petrenko's Shostakovich symphony cycle with the RLPO, the dark and angry No. 13 in B flat minor ('Babi Yar').
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Christmas Carols from Bob Chilcott and others
9th Dec 2013
Commotio bring their ‘clean, unfussy sound and pristine intonation’ to the former King’s Singer’s carols - plus Music for Advent from The Choir of Clare College Cambridge.
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Moeran Cello Concerto from Guy Johnston
25th Mar 2013
Eloquent yet never saccharine, the British cellist is a wonderful ambassador for Moeran’s 1945 concerto, written for his wife-to-be Peers Coetmore and shot through with glimpses of Britten, Vaughan Williams and Walton.
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Holst and Delius on Naxos
16th Jul 2012
JoAnn Falletta conducts the Ulster Orchestra in Holst’s Cotswolds Symphony, and David Hill directs Delius’s Nietzsche-inspired Mass for Life with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
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Shostakovich Symphonies from Petrenko and the RLPO
11th Jun 2012
The seventh instalment of the Russian conductor’s acclaimed Shostakovich cycle finds his Liverpool orchestra on top form in the Second and Fifteenth Symphonies.
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Shostakovich 11 from the RLPO
6th Apr 2009
The latest instalment of Vasily Petrenko’s Shostakovich cycle with his Liverpool orchestra prompts Chris to draw comparisons with Rattle’s landmark work with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra…
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Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony
3rd Nov 2008
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and their principal conductor Vasily Petrenko give a ‘bright and characterful’ account of Tchaikovsky’s Byron-inspired symphony, coupled with the symphonic ballad The Voyevoda.
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Chloë Hanslip and the unfamiliar
4th Aug 2008
The young British violinist ventures off the beaten track with concertos by John Adams and John Corigliano, and a recital of virtuoso showpieces by Antonio Bazzini, best known for his fiendish ‘Dance of the Goblins’.
