Norris, D O
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Now Comes Beauty
commissions from The English Music Festival
Rupert Marshall-Luck (violin), Roderick Williams (baritone), David Owen Norris (piano)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Gavin Sutherland, Owain Arwel Hughes
A great deal of it is very enjoyable, and perhaps most encouraging of all is the sense that something genuinely new and fresh – rather than just superficially novel – could emerge from this... —
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Norris, D O: Prayerbook
Peter Savidge (baritone), Fiona Hymns & Lauren Fowler (sopranos), David Coram (organ), Hari Eustace, Andy White & Adrian Cleverley (trombones), Robert Domingue (trumpet), Keith Price (timpani), Carmen King, Peter Bridgwood, Jamie Harris & Steven Grahl (hand-chimes), Joe Manghan (tubular...
The performance, under the composer’s direction, is strongly committed. Peter Savidge is excellent; the less experienced Fiona Hymns is not at his level though she offers some ardent singing... —
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David Owen Norris's attractive settings of Donne, Sassoon and others are followed by Britten's magnificent Donne cycle. Strong performances. —
