Orchestral, Holloway, R (composer)
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Special offer. Holloway, R: Concerto for Orchestra No. 2
RecommendedStefan Asbury (assistant conductor)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Knussen
A fascinating disc: the Concerto isn't quite like anything else I know, and in every aspect NMC have served it well. It deserves the widest possible hearing. —
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Gramophone Awards, 1994, Winner - Contemporary
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Themes & Variations
Three sets of variations - two previously unrecorded - with contributions from 19 British composers ranging from William Walton to Judith Weir
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jac van Steen
This fascinating disc... offers a snapshot of British musical tastes over the last 50 years —
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Debussy: C'est l'extase - La mer
Vannina Santoni (soprano), Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Mikko Franck
Vannina Santori, 36, releases the odors and textures of Verlaine’s verses with her mellow, lyrical, textured voice. There’s no posturing, no phony pear-shaped stuff, but rather a natural narrative... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2023
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War Memorials: Music for Brass Band
Tredegar Town Band, Cory Band, Ian Porthouse, Philip Harper, Robert Childs
The Tredegar Town Band revels [the Occasional Overture’s] winning combination of nonchalance and bustling virtuosity, its optimistic vision of post-war reconstruction complementing the often... —
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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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Pastures New - Sampler
William Howard (piano), Alexander Baillie (cello), Andrew Ball (piano), Mary Wiegold (soprano), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Noriko Kawai (piano), Jane Manning (soprano), Peter Serkin (piano), Martin Robertson (saxophone), Christopher van Kampen (cello), Peter Pears (tenor), BBC Symphony Orchestra,...
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New Music Collections Vol. 3 - Orchestral
Roy Carter (oboe), Wim Timmermans (horn), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Robin Michael (cello), Hallé Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Asko Ensemble, BBC Symphony Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, BBC Concert Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Nicholas Collon,...
This is a very superior “sampler”...Outstanding, I kept finding, was the first-movement extract from Wood’s Symphony (BBC SO under Andrew Davis): brooding, post-Schoenbergian vehemence with... —
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Special offer. Holloway, R: Third Concerto for Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas
The first ideas for the Third Concerto for Orchestra came during a trip through South America: there are sound pictures of Lake Titicaca, riotous New Year's Day celebrations in the Bay of Bahia,... —
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Prime Cuts - Sampler
Mary King, Timothy Robinson, Thalia Myers, Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Kim Walker, Jonty Harrison, Lars Anders Tomter (viola), John Turner (recorder), Steven Schick, Ian Pace (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, The Nash Ensemble, Ixion,...
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Naxos October 2014 New Release Sampler
Alexander Vinogradov (bass), Jiaxin Lloyd Webber (cello), Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Orion Weiss (piano), Johannes Möller (guitar), Laura Fraticelli (guitar), Mateusz Borowiak (piano), Alessandro Marangoni (piano), John Lill (piano), Leslie Howard (piano), Mark Bebbington (piano)
Royal Liverpool...
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