Orchestral, Incidental Music, Britten (composer)
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Britten: Songs & Proverbs of William Blake
Recommendedand other songs
Gerald Finley (baritone) & Julius Drake (piano)
[Finley] just seems to be singing naturally, but at the same time he colors and inflects with astonishing specificity. He manages to vary the repeats in those folk-song settings where verses... —
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Winner - Solo Vocal
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the result is coherently put together, with Hughes's resourceful vocal imagination and use of tone, plus the subtlety and careful placement of her decorations, drawing the ear again and again. —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2026, Editor's Choice
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The Cendrillon aria suits her talents closely, with her ethereal tone and confident coloratura skills. There’s some real magic here. Mendelssohn’s fairy-song ‘Neue Liebe’ has just the right... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Solo Vocal
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Bostridge is in the royal line of Britten's tenor interpreters. Indeed his imaginative response to words and music may come closer than any to Pears himself. He's heard here in a veritable cornucopia... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Day of These Days
The British Isles Reflected in Song
Tristan Hambleton (bass-baritone), Simon Lepper (piano)
It's the quality of the performances as much as the attractions of an unusual programme (eight items new to disc) that make this assemblage so desirable. Everything is considered, imaginative... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2026, Vocal Choice
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encouraged by Freeman’s limpid touch, he finely captures the changing moods of the canticle My beloved is mine, from impassioned declamation to the stillness of ‘He is my Altar’ and the quiet... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2020
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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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Ruby Hughes's singing is exceptional - light and delicate yet true. —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2016, Choral & Song Choice
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Remember Your Lovers
Songs by Tippett, Britten, Purcell & Pelham Humfrey
John Mark Ainsley (tenor) & Iain Burnside (piano)
John Mark Ainsley brings the full range of his formidable musicianship to these hard-wrought but haunting masterpieces. His ringing high register and almost miraculously expressive pianissimo... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2006, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Britten: Piano Concerto, Overture to Paul Bunyan & Johnson over Jordan
RecommendedJoanna MacGregor (piano)
English Chamber Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Steuart Bedford
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Building a Library, March 2018, Also Recommended
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