Butterworth, G
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Special offer. Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony
Recommendedoriginal 1913 version
London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox
Hickox and the London Symphony Orchestra have come up with a recording that you can cheerfully measure against most others in the catalogue, before you consider its unique extra charms! —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st December 2008
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Gramophone Awards, 2001, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2001, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, November 2016, Also Recommended
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. A Shropshire Lad
English Songs Orchestrated by Roderick Williams
Roderick Williams (baritone), Hallé Orchestra, Mark Elder
Williams is accompanied throughout by his own orchestral reimaginings; and he’s evidently an orchestrator with a fine ear and lively imagination...This is all exquisitely sung too. The melodic... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2023
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Voice & Orchestra
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Special offer. Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad; Holst: Egdon Heath, St. Paul's Suite
RecommendedAndrew Manze (violin), Cormac Henry, Helena Mackie, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
The playing and recording are superlative and this moving collection can be recommended without reservation. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2025, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st October 2025
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Special offer. George Butterworth: Orchestral Works
RecommendedJames Rutherford (baritone)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Kriss Russman
[Russman] brings out the poignant lyricism with exceptional freshness and strength…to the AE Housman settings James Rutherford brings characteristic mellow-toned vigour and expressive delivery…congratulations... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Building a Library, January 2021, Also Recommended
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Requiem – The Pity of War
RecommendedMahler – Stephan – Butterworth – Weill
Ian Bostridge (tenor), Sir Antonio Pappano (piano)
Bostridge and Antonio Pappano are on superb form here, carefully responsive to style and mood, yet striving throughout for unsparing immediacy of expression…Stephan’s taxing vocal lines push... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th October 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Special offer. Holst: The Planets
Works By Vaughan Williams, Walton and Butterworth
Alan Harverson (soloist), Margaret Marshall (soloist), BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
the pick of the present generous collection comprising his thrillingly powerful traversal with the BBC SO from the 1973 Proms of Holst’s The Planets. With Boult at the helm of the orchestra... —
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Special offer. Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 2 'A London Symphony', etc.
original 1913 version
London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox
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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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Boult conducts ...
Herbert Downes (viola), Desmond Bradley & Gillian Eastwood (violins), Albert Cayzer (viola) & Norman Jones (cello)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
…sympathetic accounts… Butterworth's Two English Idylls, The Banks of Freen Willow and the sublime Shropshire Lad rhapsody. Tension levels rise markedly for exceptionally insightful readings... —
