Curtis, M
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The Spirit of Christmas
Joanna Lumley & John Julius Norwich (narrators)
RTE Concert Orchestra, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Gavin Sutherland & Barry Wordsworth
Crisp, energetic performances from both the orchestras and their respective conductors. —
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Matthew Curtis: Orchestral Works Vol. 3
Jennifer Stinton (flute), Verity Butler (clarinet)
Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Gavin Sutherland
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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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Another Night Before Christmas and Scrooge
Simon Callow (narrator)
RTÉ Concert Orchestra & Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Gavin Sutherland
Bryan Kelly’s Dickens distillation Scrooge, exuberantly narrated by Simon Callow, is one of the main items here, alongside Philip Lane’s Old Christmas Music, Matthew Curtis’s Christmas Rush... —
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Curtis’s music has been categorised as belonging to the British light music tradition and the booklet quotes him as believing that “there remains a great longing for more accessible contemporary... —
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Special offer. A Christmas Festival
RSNO Junior Chorus, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Christopher Bell
