Hi Res Download, Brian (composer)
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Rumon Gamba and the BBC Philharmonic do bustle very well, and the Chandos microphones prove particularly good at pinpointing details like a tuba's lugubrious waddle. —
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New. Havergal Brian: Complete Choral Songs, Vol. 2
Gavin Roberts, Finchley Children’s Music Group, John Evanson, Peter Broadbent, Grace Rossiter, Joyful Company of Singers
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My expectations of high performance quality were fully met by these gripping accounts. Walker achieves extraordinarily intense playing that illuminates this music to its best advantage. —
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Havergal Brian: The Cenci
Helen Field (Beatrice Cenci), David Wilson-Johnson (Count Cenci), Ingveldur Yr Jonsdóttir (Lucretia), Justin Lavender (Orsino/Bernardo), Stuart Kale (Cardinal Camillo)
Millennium Sinfonia, James Kelleher
Helen Field is a radiant Beatrice, brilliantly capturing that paradoxical blend of innocence and implacable desire for revenge. She serves as a perfect foil for the malevolence spit out by David... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2024, Archive Issue of the Month
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Brian: Agamemnon & Symphonies Nos 6 & 12
RecommendedJohn Findon (Agamemnon), Eleanor Dennis (Clytemnestra), Stephanie Wake-Edwards (Cassandra), Robert Murray (Watchman), Clive Bayley (Herald/Old Man)
English National Opera Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
If anyone can convince us of the worth of this one-act drama of Aeschylus’s tragedy of Agamemnon’s last bloody bath it's Martyn Brabbins, a doughty champion of Brian’s music...All credit to... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Havergal Brian: Complete Choral Songs, Vol. 1
John Evanson, Gavin Roberts, Christine Hankin, Imogen Barford, Joyful Company of Singers, Finchley Children’s Music Group, Ascolta, Peter Broadbent, Grace Rossiter
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Their gusto in tackling Brian’s complex, often cryptic but rewarding scores is very winning. All the music here shows the old maverick forging ahead from epic breadth to extreme compression,... —
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This is a significant disc – and not just because it completes the Brian symphony discography. The music is convincingly played by the New Russia State Symphony Orchestra and Alexander Walker... —
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