Orchestral, Overtures, Smyth (composer)
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Dame Ethel Smyth: Mass in D & Overture to 'The Wreckers'
RecommendedBBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Sakari Oramo
Oramo rises to the work’s ambition with a fiercely committed, highly persuasive reading that indulges generosity of scale and imagination while pinpointing the Mass’s many felicities of detail.... —
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Record Review, 5th October 2019, Disc of the Week
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th October 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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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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British Composers: A Celebration
RecommendedRichard Rodney Bennett (piano), Ian Hare (piano), Robert Tear (vocals), Sir Andrew Davis (piano), Bruce Russell (vocals), Richard Lewis (vocals), Monica Sinclair (vocals), Lewis Thomas (vocals), Geoffrey Walls (baritone), John Hauxwell (bass-baritone), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Wilfred Brown...
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also Recommended
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Opening the Doors
Don Garrard (bass), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone, bass), Rachel Mathes (soprano), Stafford Dean (bass), Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), Peter Katin (piano), Philip Fowke (piano), Adrian Shepherd (cello), Jonny Blanc (tenor), Catherine Wilson (soprano), David Fieldsend (tenor), David Hillman (tenor),...
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Gibson's performances are outstanding throughout in their combination of warmth, colour and atmosphere, and the recording still sounds very well indeed. —
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Dan Godfrey Encores
Recorded at Lighthouse, Poole, Dorset, 20-21 July 2011
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Ronald Corp
it is wonderful to have this delectable material so surprisingly resurrected, and so deliciously served up once more by the very same body that brought it to life —
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Holst, Bridge, Bliss, Vaughan Williams, Harty & Smyth
Conducted by the Composers
London Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra, members, Aeolian Orchestra, The, Halle Orchestra, British Symphony Orchestra, Gustav Holst, Frank Bridge, Arthur Bliss, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Hamilton Harty, Ethel Smyth
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Special offer. Entente Cordiale
Light classics
Verity Butler (clarinet)
City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Gavin Sutherland
