Vocal, Vocal (Orchestral), Elgar (composer)
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Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius & Sea Pictures
RecommendedStuart Skelton (tenor), Sarah Connolly (mezzo) & David Soar (bass), Sarah Connolly (mezzo)
BBC Symphony Chorus & BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
among the best Gerontius performances on record. Davis resists the temptation to make the work sound like a flabby, imitation Parsifal and the results are outstandingly convincing...[Skelton]... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Disc of the month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2015, Choral Award Winner
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Winner - Choral
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Special offer. Elgar: Sea Pictures & Pomp and Circumstance Marches
Alice Coote (mezzo soprano)
Hallé, Sir Mark Elder
The way [Coote] peels away the varnish of received interpretation can be thrilling, even in Elgar's Sea Pictures...Elder's handling of the orchestra...is wonderful, and where necessary discreet:... —
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Special offer. Mer(s)
RecommendedMarie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto)
Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Paul Daniel
Lemieux is on imperious form in Sea Pictures. Her rich contralto sits easily in Elgar’s writing…She is magnificent [in the Chausson], completely at home in the fleshy vocal lines of Maurice... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Vocal
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Special offer. Elgar: Symphony No. 2 & Sea Pictures
Della Jones (mezzo-soprano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras
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Coming soon. Elgar From the Archives, Vol. 5
Joan Hammond, Marjorie Thomas, William Herbert, John Cameron, Owen Brannigan, Richard Standen, BBC Chorus & BBC Choral Society, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Glady Ripley, Sir Malcolm Sargent, George Weldon, Philharmonia Orchestra
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Elgar: Sea Pictures & The Music Makers
Kathryn Rudge (mezzo), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Petrenko’s The Music Makers makes a compelling case for a work often dismissed as navel-gazing, second-rate Elgar…The Liverpool choir is excellent throughout…Rudge sings the solo part with ripe-toned... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2020, Editor's Choice
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Very Best of English Song
RecommendedDame Janet Baker (mezzo), Gerald Moore (piano), Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Geoffrey Parsons (piano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), David Willison (piano), Ian Partridge (tenor), Janet Craxton (piano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone), Roger Vignoles...
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also recommended
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Building a Library, January 2021, Recommended orchestral version (Songs of Travel)
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Elgar - Enigma Variations
Gladys Ripley (contralto)
London Symphony & Philharmonia Orchestra, George Weldon
Superb, astonishing performances from a most underrated conductor. Both orchestras play with non-stop intensity, with Glady's Ripley an exquisite soloist in Sea Pictures. Decent sound for... —
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Elgar: Sea Pictures
Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Simon Wright
The Music Makers is one of Elgar's most poignant and troubled utterances which movingly incorporates material from some of his greatest compositions, and it can hold its head high. Simon Wright... —
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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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