Orchestral, String Orchestras, Walton (composer)
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Special offer. Walton: Viola Concerto, Partita for Orchestra & Sonata for String Orchestra
RecommendedJames Ehnes (viola)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Ehnes, long established as one of the world’s leading violinists, doesn’t offer the same hefty, almost cello-like weight of tone on the viola as some of his specialist colleagues. Then again,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2018, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 28th April 2018, Recording of the Week
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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And the Bridge is Love
RecommendedEnglish Music for Strings
Julian Lloyd Webber (cello)
English Chamber Orchestra
as a conductor, he evidently has the ability to make a difference to collective performance-level (the English Chamber Orchestra plays characteristically and vividly at every point) while not... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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The British Project
RecommendedElgar - Britten - Walton - Vaughan Williams
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
Gražinytė-Tyla brings a fresheared approach to four English masters of orchestral writing…The Fantasia, rapt and mysterious, receives the most successful performance. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th August 2021
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Record Review, 7th August 2021, Record of the Week
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Special offer. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 16 & Walton: Serenade for Strings
Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson
Arrangements for string orchestra of works originally written for string quartet are not uncommon, especially in the cases of Beethoven and Schubert… But in the amazing scherzo, with its huge... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2006, Disc of the Month
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Special offer. Walton: Viola Concerto, etc.
Nobuko Imai (viola)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Jan Latham-Koenig
Imai's approach is slightly cool and measured, lacking the last degree of rhythmic excitement. But the lyrical passages are lovely. —
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Special offer. Sir Colin Davis Anthology
Limited Edition of 5000
Ben Heppner (Enée), Michelle DeYoung (Didon), Petra Lang (Cassandre), Sara Mingardo (Anna), Peter Mattei (Chorèbe), Stephen Milling (Narbal), Kenneth Tarver (Iopas), Toby Spence (Hylas), Alan Ewing (Priam)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
despite the film’s scrappy construction music and man emerge loud and clear. A “reluctant king” is Sir David Attenborough’s description. His baton, Mitsuko Uchida, the pianist, crisply says,... —
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8 SACDs + CD + DVD Video
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Orchestral Favourites Volume II - Respighi's Ancient Airs & Dances No. 3
English Symphony Orchestra, William Boughton
William Boughton's ... hand-picked players are very good players indeed, lovely in sound and terrific in ensemble. Nimbus provides lush, sweet sonics —
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Music For A Royal Celebration
Music from the Service of Prayer and Dedication to Celebrate the Marriage of Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall Saturday 9th April 2005
Ekaterina Semenchuk (mezzo-soprano), Gordon Hunt (oboe), Roger Judd (organ)
Philharmonia Orchestra, The Choir of St George's Chapel, Windsor, Christopher Warren-Green, Timothy Byram-Wigfield
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Special offer. Walton: The Twelve, Coronation Te Deum, Missa Brevis, Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis
St. John's College Choir, Cambridge, Christopher Robinson
This latest addition to Naxos's English Church Music series isn't just a first-rate bargain but provides a distinctive alternative to the Finzi Singers in the Chandos Walton Edition, in its... —
