Download, Finzi (composer)
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Finzi: Cello Concerto, Op. 40
RecommendedPaul Watkins (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
Sir Andrew Davis’s feeling for the composer’s sensitive, harmonically conservative language is abundantly clear in these vivid readings with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Soloists too are well... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st December 2018
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Trinity’s mixed young adults are effortless in the ease with which they respond to Layton’s exacting demands. The ground is hit running with a Magnificat whose iterations of the word ‘magnify’... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Finzi: Clarinet Concerto & Cello Concerto
RecommendedJohn Denman (clarinet), Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
New Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley
The Cello Concerto was in many ways the composer's swansong… The beautifully slow movement is deeply searching and draws on an Elgarian quality, a poignant nobility. Yo-Yo Ma's wistfully introspective... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2007, Re-issue of the Month
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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New. Finzi: Requiem da camera & Other Choral Works
Thomas Simpson (organ), Gwilym Bowen (tenor), Florian Störtz (bass), Augustine Cox (organ), Hilary Cronin (soprano), The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, Florian Störtz, Steven Grahl
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Daniel’s immaculate playing is the main attraction here. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2005, Editor's Choice
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Shakespeare Songs
RecommendedIan Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Adam Walker (flute), Lawrence Power (viola), Michael Collins (clarinet)
Five songs from Finzi’s incomparable Let us Garlands Bring see the tenor’s head voice floating sympathetically through the melismatic vowels and ever-shifting metres of Finzi’s most sensitive... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Finzi: Intimations of Immortality & For St Cecilia
RecommendedJames Gilchrist (tenor)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, David Hill
Gerald Finzi's music here is full of inescapable echoes of the melodies and harmonies of Elgar and Vaughan Williams, the ceremonial pomp of Parry… But he had a distinctive gift for setting... —
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Building a Library, December 2006, Budget Choice
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British Music Collection - Gerald Finzi
RecommendedAndrew Marriner (clarinet), Piers Lane (piano)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, English Chamber Orchestra, Neville Marriner, Nicholas Daniel
Andrew Marriner is a flexible interpreter who brings out both the light and the shade in this work. The Eclogue, here played by a sensitive Piers Lane, is the wistfully pastoral middle movement... —
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Building a Library, December 2006, First Choice
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The Past & I: 100 Years of Thomas Hardy
RecommendedMusic & Arrangements by Arthur Keegan
Lotte Betts-Dean (mezzo), James Girling (guitar), Ligeti Quartet
The Ligeti Quartet ’s performance resonates with commitment and eloquence as Keegan highlights the tensions between man and nature, art and mortality, interlaying texts by Hardy and Philip Larkin.... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th July 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024, Shortlisted - New Work (Elegies for Emma)
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