George Vass
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Special offer. Michael Tippett: Piano Concerto; Benjamin Britten: Diversions; William Walton: Sinfonia Concertante
RecommendedClare Hammond (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, George Vass
This is a valuable album indeed...each [work] is ripe for rediscovery and could prove rewarding for performers and audiences in the concert hall. They receive fine performances here from the... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Henriëtte Bosmans: Concertos
Gemma Rosefield, Benjamin Nabarro, Rowan Pierce, BBC Philharmonic, George Vass
A composer of undeniable lyric gifts and sensibility, her output straddles the shift from late romanticism to 1920s modernism with considerable aplomb...The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra play like... —
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Special offer. Huw Watkins: Works For Strings & Piano Trio
Rachel Roberts, Benjamin Nabarro, Leonore Piano Trio, Orchestra Nova, George Vass
This music may not set out to challenge the boldness and range of Watkins’s major vocal and orchestral scores. Yet there is no doubt that the same discriminating musical mind is at work in all... —
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Special offer. Joseph Phibbs: Juliana
Zoe Drummond (soprano), Rebecca Afonwy-Jones (mezzo-soprano), Felix Kemp (baritone), Nova Music Opera Ensemble, George Vass
The score is brilliantly written, with a spaciousness and sure sense of timing that encourages Zoe Drummond ( Juliana) and Felix Kemp ( Juan) to fully vocally and dramatically inhabit their... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2003, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. British Piano Concertos Vol. 2
Simon Callaghan, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Stephen Bell, George Vass
In every case, Simon Callaghan radiates delight in reviving these neglected items, and his pungent and precise fingering is matched by the spirited attack of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales... —
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Special offer. Cecilia McDowall: Cantatas
Rowan Pierce (soprano), Katie Bennington (oboe), Choir of Royal Holloway, Orchestra Nova, Royal Holloway Choir, George Vass
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Sibelius: Violin Concerto & Humoresques
Fenella Humphreys (violin), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, George Vass
Humphreys’s playing is a genuine revelation in the way it brings out the music’s dark and introspective qualities, with no shortage of qualities, with no shortage of technical panache meanwhile…[She]... —
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Cecilia McDowall: Stabat Mater
and other works for voice/choir and orchestra
Eamonn Dougan (baritone), Gretel Dowdeswell (piano), Nigel Shipway (percussion), Charlotte Mobbs (soprano) & Eamonn Dougan (baritone), Clare Porter (soprano solo), Kathryn Thomas (flute), Catriona Scott (clarinet), Suzanne Willison-Kawalec (harp)
Martin Smith (violin), Sarah-Jane Bradley...
Heartfelt advocacy in beautifully prepared and recorded performances. —
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Madrigali Dell’Estate
Music for Voice by Stephen McNeff
Clare McCaldin (mezzo-soprano) & Andrew West (piano)
[McCaldin sings] with real commitment and imagination, in lively partnership with the pianist Andrew West... Here are brilliantly backlit cameos of sand and tide, shore and slimy estuary...The... —
