Somervell
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Building a Library, January 2021, Also Recommended
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Praise to the Lord
Favourite hymns from St Paul's Cathedral
John Scott (organ)
St Paul's Cathedral Choir, The English Brass Ensemble
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A sense of the mannered or precious can debase these songs; Keenlyside's sweeping, robust lyricism is deceptively effortless and exactly right...Dr Johnson once said that every man thinks worse... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Solo Vocal
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Come to Me in My Dreams
120 years of songs from the RCM
Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Joseph Middleton (piano)
A varied collection that offers more than just vocal bonbons…Connolly and Middleton execute the complex phrasing [of A Charm of Lullabies] with a sense of ensemble for which they are revered. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2018, Editor's Choice
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Newby, who turns 30 this year, has the kind of powerful natural presence that also belongs to Bryn Terfel, and the timbre of his voice has come to resemble Terfel’s in its plummy warmth and... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Some of the songs are set in an almost epigrammatic fashion, so that the listener’s attention is never allowed to waver. A. E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad has often been set to music, but Somervell... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2020
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The Romantic Violin Concerto 5 - Coleridge-Taylor & Somervell
RecommendedAnthony Marwood (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
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Building a Library, June 2017, Also Recommended
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British Orchestral Premieres
Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, Karelia State Philharmonic Orchestra, Orion Symphony Orchestra, Michael Laus, Marius Stravinsky, Toby Purser
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