Orchestral, Matthews, D (composer)
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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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David Matthews - From Sea to Sky
Lucie Špicková (mezzo-soprano) & Ruth Bolister (oboe), Rachel Nicholls (soprano), Gillian Keith (soprano)
Orchestra Nova Ensemble & Orchestra Nova
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New Stock - Sampler
William Howard (piano), Lucy Shelton, Sarah Leonard (soprano), Eileen Hulse, David White, John Wallace (trumpet), Marcia Crayford, Chi-chi Nwanokwu, Ian Brown, Manoug Parikian, Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano), Anton Lukoszevieze (cello), Corrado Canonici, Alexander Baillie (cello), William Conway, Ernst...
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The Sheba Sound - 2 Oboes/Bassoon/Harpsichord
The Sheba Sound, Catherine Smith, Deirdre Lind, Deirdre Dundas-Grant, Alastair Ross, Deirdre Dundas-Granr, Harold Lester, Sandra Mackay, Nicholas Hunka, David Owen Norris (piano), Valerie Taylor, Robin Kennard, John Alley, Gabriel Woolf, Deidre Dundas-Grant
This revival is a thoughtful and cleverly considered and executed project; typical of all Oboe Classics' releases. A winner and not just for cross-over children of the seventies and eighties.... —
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NMC at 35
Onyx Brass (brass ensemble), Sandrine Piau (soprano), Jane Manning (soprano), Roger Smalley, Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian, Ziazan, Mark Padmore (tenor), Richard Watkins (horn), Huw Watkins (piano), Thomas Hewitt Jones, Ruby Philogene, Lawrence Zazzo, Timothy Dawkins, Philip Sheffield, Jeremy Huw Williams...
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David Matthews: Cantiga
Jill Gomez (soprano)
Bournemouth Sinfonietta, East of England Orchestra, John Carewe, Malcolm Nabarro
Beautiful, individual things in all four pieces... Matthews is at his best when he's most unashamedly Romantic. —
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David Matthews: Symphony No. 7 & Vespers
Katie Bray (mezzo-soprano) & Matthew Long (tenor)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, The Bach Choir, David Hill, John Carewe
Non-doctrinal yet celebrating the religious sense as such, this is a work both of great beauty and genuine spiritual force...I was moved and rather awed by the mastery of large forces to such... —
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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... —
