Chamber, Duos, Viola & Piano Duos, Vaughan Williams (composer)
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A Lionel Tertis Celebration
RecommendedTimothy Ridout (viola), Frank Dupree (piano), James Baillieu (piano)
From imposing sonatas to salon bonbons, these recordings constitute a deft salute not just to Tertis the man and multifaceted musician, but also to an enduring legacy which lives on in distinguished... —
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th January 2024
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Chamber
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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The performances are exceptional. In a collective and individual display of how to deliver chamber music at world-class level, Sarah-Jane Bradley's viola-playing - ear-mesmerising, yet never... —
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Special offer. Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on the Old 104th, The Lark Ascending
Mark Bebbington (piano), Duncan Riddell, Abigail Fenna, Richard Harwood, Benjamin Cunningham, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, City of London Choir, Hilary Davan Wetton
Its dramatic juxtapositions of Lisztian piano cadenzas with VW’s setting for choir and orchestra of Thomas Ravenscroft’s 17th-century psalm tune are stirringly captured on this new recording,... —
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...this music all tells us about Vaughan Williams' development, and that while he hadn't yet found the sounds and idiosyncrasies which made him unique (and to some people uniquely annoying),... —
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Nisbeth’s tone isn’t especially lush or velvety but it’s endlessly nuanced, and Forsberg, too, commands an enormously subtle tonal palette…Fresh, thoughtful perspectives on some ravishing –... —
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Special offer. Vaughan Williams: Viola Fantasia - Works For Viola And Piano
Martin Outram (viola), Julian Rolton (piano), Mark Padmore (tenor)
Outram catches poetically the vein of pastoral contemplation which runs through the first five of the Six Studies in English Folksong, and turns in a puckish ‘As I Walked Over London Bridge’... —
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Folk Tales, Vol. 2: British and Irish Miniatures
Gerald Peregrine (cello), Antony Ingham (piano), Lynda O'Connor (violin)
Each track is sensitively crafted, with beauty of tone paramount and a warm, closely recorded sound…O’Connor’s high notes shine…while Peregrine’s solos at the beginning and end sound as expressive... —
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