Penelope Thwaites
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The Grainger Edition Volume 3
Works for Chorus & Orchestra
Mark Padmore (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Joyful Company of Singers, Duke Dobing (flute), David Archer (trumpet), Andrew Watkinson (violin), Penelope Thwaites (piano)
City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
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Grainger Edition, Vol. 7: Songs for Tenor
Martyn Hill (tenor), Penelope Thwaites (piano), John Lavender (piano)
Thwaites is on terrific form. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Editor's Choice
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An introduction to Percy Grainger
RecommendedStephen Varcoe (baritone) / David Archer (trumpet) / Andrew Watkinson (violin) / Jonathan Scott (harmonium) / Penelope Thwaites (piano)
Joyful Company of Singers / BBC Philharmonic / BBC Philharmonic / City of London Sinfonia / Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra, Richard Hickox,...
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st January 2011
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I Have Lived & Loved
Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano), Alessandro Fisher (tenor), Penelope Thwaites (piano)
'[Rudge] makes an instantly engaging impression in "The Vagabond', her lush mezzo-soprano voice combining with immaculate diction and intelligent use of dynamics to clarify meaning...Thwaites's... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2025, Song Choice
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There is as much to savour musically as there is in Ms Thwaites’s sympathetic and thoughtful playing of her compatriot’s works —
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There is a personal character to Grainger's music also, which gradually emerges as Grainger expert Penelope Thwaites journeys through the first decade of his composing life… the unique Grainger... —
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Thwaites: Ride! Ride!
Keith Michell, Catherine Harvey, Della Jones, Stephen Varcoe, Bruce Graham, Maureen Keetch, Sharon-Elizabeth Ellis, Mark Brummitt & Company
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A wonderful album of Grainger's solo piano music.... her devotion to his art shines out of her playing. —
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The Grainger Edition Volume 12
Songs for Mezzo-soprano
Della Jones (mezzo-soprano), Penelope Thwaites (piano)
Again Grainger amazes, amuses, arouses, intrigues. These 'Songs for mezzo' originate in Britain (with an excellent sequence of Scottish songs), Jutland and Australia. Some are folksongs collected... —
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Special offer. Penelope Thwaites: Chamber Music
Gardens, Fables, Prisons, Dreams
Tippett Quartet (string quartet), Penelope Thwaites (piano), Benjamin Frith (piano), John Mills, Bozidar Vukotic, Laurence Ungless
