Nimbus
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Orchestral Favourites Volume IX - Tchaikovsky & Dvorak Serenades for Strings
English String Orchestra, William Boughton
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[Laredo] combines propulsive yet never rigid tempos with an echt Mendelssohnian grace of phrase. There is delectable work from the woodwind. —
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Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
Bradley Creswick (violin), George Ives (cello)
Philharmonia Orchestra, William Boughton
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Constantin Silvestri: A Bournemouth Love Affair
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Constantin Silvestri
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Red Letter Days: Geoff Eales
Geoff Eales (piano), Roy Babbington (double bass), Mark Fletcher (drums) & Jim Mullen (guitar)
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A starry level of professional chamber-music playing is par for the course in these islands. Even so, the quality on display here - above all, the near-perfect interplay between collective statement... —
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Barbirolli Quartet play Britten & Bliss
Barbirolli Quartet: Rakhi Singh (violin), Katie Stillman (violin), Ella Brinch (viola) & Ashok Klouda (cello)
The Barbirollis give warm, idiomatic, intense performances of both works, at times reflecting the comment of one critic in a review, who described their playing as 'red-blooded'...A very welcome... —
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Each Lovely Grace
Cantar Alla Viola: Nadine Balbeisi (soprano) & Fernando Marín (viola da gamba, lyra-viol)
This music is truly lovely, focused and - perhaps most noticeably - reflects many moods...But this is emphatically not a collection of historical curios. Nadine Balbeisi and Fernando Marín obviously... —
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In many ways this is a fascinating release, mainly because of an odd feature. To be more specific, although the conductor and orchestra are identical in both works, each symphony sounds as if... —
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