Vocal, Songs, Grainger (composer)
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Hewitt’s spacious, uncluttered approach revels unashamedly in the pianism while still letting the original songs sing. The real treats are Hewitt’s own arrangements...In all, this beautifully... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2021
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, Instrumental Choice
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Lane in wonderful debonair mode here, sparkling through a personal encore selection from Jamaican Rumba to a Toccata by his own father, and from Myra Hess to Dudley Moore. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd September 2013
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[Victorian parlour repertoire] proves both admirably suited to her distinctively creamy yet expressive voice, and occasionally revelatory...The well-structured programme concludes with Holst's... —
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Mythes is all heightened sensuality and warmth, its heady atmosphere evoked through playing of extraordinary colour, detail and dexterity. —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2023, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Grainger: Jungle Book
Recommended& other choral works
John Mark Ainsley (tenor) & David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)
Polyphony, Stephen Layton
Grainger's cycle evokes the lyrical side of Kipling's animal tales. As with the coupled folk arrangements, it's beautifully sung. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st January 2011
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For all Adrian Bradbury’s richly seductive tone, stylistic sensitivity and evident affection for the music (not to mention pianist Andrew West ’s illuminating rapport), it’s with the Cyril Scott... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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The Grainger Edition Volume 3
Works for Chorus & Orchestra
Mark Padmore (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Joyful Company of Singers, Duke Dobing (flute), David Archer (trumpet), Andrew Watkinson (violin), Penelope Thwaites (piano)
City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
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Grainger Edition, Vol. 7: Songs for Tenor
Martyn Hill (tenor), Penelope Thwaites (piano), John Lavender (piano)
Thwaites is on terrific form. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Editor's Choice
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