Orchestral, Symphonies, Gounod (composer)
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Special offer. Bizet: Carmen Suite No. 1, Symphony & Gounod: Petite Symphonie
François Leleux, Scottish Chamber Orchestra
The SCO have a thrilling way with Bizet…[The Symphony] bubbles along with infectious delight in the SCO’s hands – I could listen to them playing this all day —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2020, Orchestral Choice
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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This set gives an invaluable historical cross-section of Antipodean singers in both commercial and rare archive recordings. —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2017, Re-issue of the Month
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There’s a spring in Tortelier’s step with the Icelanders, a sappy bounce to the opening Allegro molto… The strings are alert and light and the woodwinds attack Gounod’s melodious writing with... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2019, Editor's Choice
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Premières symphonies: Bizet, Gounod & Saint-Saëns
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Kazuki Yamada
Yamada and the Monte-Carlo orchestra give really fine performances of all three works, with the youthful energy of the Bizet particularly well conveyed. The delicate, rapid violin writing in... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2025, Orchestral Choice
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Panis angelicus
Favourite Motets from Westminster Cathedral
Westminster Cathedral Choir, Iain Simcock (organ)
James O'Donnell
A beautiful disc of sacred motets from one of this country’s finest choirs —
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Great Anthems & Choruses
Amor Artis Chorale, Simon Lole, John Haydn Davies, Treorchy Male Voice Choir, Ivor E. Sims, The Morriston Orpheus Choir, Oxford Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Clive Driskill-Smith, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Westminster Abbey Choir, English Chamber Orchestra, Tenebrae,...
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Crisp, genial recordings of Gounod's two completed symphonies, both of which are charming, tuneful and elegant. Two fragments of a projected third symphony are the interesting bonus. —
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Various of these recordings were previously available as part of Philips’s long-defunct The Early Years series but the current collection is superior in all respects, a masterpiece of careful... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2020, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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Diapason d’Or, May 2020, Rééditions
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Dvořák: Serenade for Winds; Gounod: Petite Symphonie for nine Wind instruments; Schubert: Minuet and Finale for Wind Octet
Netherlands Wind Ensemble, Edo de Waart
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100 Best Karajan
James Galway (flute), Fritz Helmis (harp), Bernard Walton (clarinet), Dennis Brain (french horn), Erich Kunz (baritone), Wilma Lipp (soprano), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Nan Merriman (contralto), Sesto Bruscantini (baritone), Lothar Koch (oboe), Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Maurice André (trumpet),...
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