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An English Coronation, 1902-1953
RecommendedEdward VII, George V, George VI, Elizabeth II
Gabrieli, Paul McCreesh
Some may find the extensive spoken liturgy excessive but such is Simon Russell Beale’s compelling delivery that the sheer beauty of the words offers a musical diversion of a different kind.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2019
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Diapason d’Or, September 2019, Nouveauté
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2019
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Vocal
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Choral
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Choral
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This most welcome second volume of British overtures serves to accentuate the sheer diversity of works this country produced in the genre between the 1890s and the 1940s and, moreover, where... —
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Wait until the neighbours are out, turn up the volume, give your speakers a thorough workout and yourself a tingle up the spine. Full organ. Blazing magnificence. No one plays this sort of repertoire... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2024, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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The Romantic Piano Concerto (1991 - 2007 Edition)
Featuring pianists including Stephen Hough, Seta Tanyel, Piers Lane, Nikolai Demidenko, Martin Roscoe, Howard Shelley, Peter Donohoe, Marc-André Hamelin and Steven Osborne
Is this handsomely produced box-set worth acquiring? As a work of art alone, yes! If you have not encountered these works before, do not hesitate. Dip in anywhere and you will be rewarded. Assuming... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2026, Editor's Choice
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Boult's advocacy is irresistible and the CD transfer demonstrates the intrinsic excellent of the analogue recordings, with gloriously full string-sound. —
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The Agnus Dei by Tarik O’Regan, an ethereal and exquisitely worked setting, is worthy to stand alongside O taste and see, the communion anthem composed by Vaughan Williams for the 1953 coronation. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Shortlisted - Technical Achievement
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023, Technical Achievement
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…Liszt's Ad nos… is magisterial, its 30-minute span commandingly paced, its grandeur and rhapsody held in equilibrium. As for the concluding Toccata by Marcel Lanquetuit, move over Widor!... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2005, Editor's Choice
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Very Best of English Song
RecommendedDame Janet Baker (mezzo), Gerald Moore (piano), Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Geoffrey Parsons (piano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), David Willison (piano), Ian Partridge (tenor), Janet Craxton (piano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone), Roger Vignoles...
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also recommended
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Building a Library, January 2021, Recommended orchestral version (Songs of Travel)
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If IKEA were to make a cello, this would be it…Sow how does it sound? In Steven Isserlis’s hands, remarkably fine – though he only uses it for a handful of evocative miniatures…On Isserlis’s... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2018, Chamber Choice
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