Orchestral, Symphonies, Rubbra (composer)
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For some years the Third Symphony was a repertory piece, at least on BBC programmes, but it fell out of favour in the late 1950s. Commentators have noticed a certain Sibelian cut to its opening... —
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British Symphonies
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite, Vernon Handley, Adrian Boult, Myer Fredman, Norman Del Mar, John Pritchard, Lennox Berkeley, William Alwyn, Josef Krips
this is a very significant release which really deserves to be snapped up by everyone, not least those who still cling to the discredited belief that when it comes to composing symphonies, Britain... —
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Rubbra: Symphony No. 9, Op. 140 'Sinfonia Sacra', etc.
RecommendedLynne Dawson (soprano), Della Jones (contralto), Stephen Roberts (bass)
BBC National Chorus & Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox
The Ninth (1973) is Rubbra's most visionary utterance, and its stature has so far gone unrecognised.
(This is its only recording.) Its subtitle, Sinfoniasacra, gives a good idea of its character.... —Awards:
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Rubbra: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 7 and Festival Overture
New Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley, Sir Adrian Boult
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Rubbra: Symphony No. 6, Op. 80, etc.
Rohan de Saram (cello)
Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Norman Del Mar, Vernon Handley
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Rubbra: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 8 and Ode to the Queen
Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox
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Boult was the dedicatee of Edmund Rubbra’s Second Symphony…Such a deep personal connection shines through every bar of this 1954 studio recording, whose near-incandescent intensity makes the... —
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Rubbra - Complete Symphonies
Lynne Dawson (soprano), Della Jones (contralto), Stephen Roberts (baritone)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC National Chorus of Wales, Richard Hickox
Hickox's reading of the Fifth Symphony is easily the finest and most penetrating; the slow movement has great depth and, thanks to a magnficent recording, a great clarity than either of its... —
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The Essential Ulster Orchestra
Maria Kliegel (cello), Phillip Dyson, Kevin Sargent, Peter Donohoe (piano), Adele Anthony, Mark Kosower, Krysia Osostowicz, Lesley Hatfield, Rebecca Hirsch, Guy Johnston (cello), Ulster Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta, Takuo Yuasa, Esa Heikkila, Daniele Rustioni
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Epic Brass
British Music for Brass Band
John Foster Black Dyke Mills Band, Roy Newsome, Major Peter Parkes
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