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A well-programmed and quite outstanding disc, probably the most impressive Finnissy disc available —
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A Round-up of NMC - Sampler
Jon Garrison (tenor), Marie Angel (soprano), Ruby Philogene (mezzo-soprano), Timothy Dawkins (bass), Lawrence Zazzo (countertenor), Andrew Hewitt (tenor), Stephen Rooke (tenor), Philip Sheffield (tenor), Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Sarah Collins (tape), Melinda Maxwell (oboe), Richard Benjafield...
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This beautifully detailed recording on the pioneering NMC label provides a chance to explore further this exquisite score. Ruby Philogene singing the title role heads a deft and committed cast... —
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Gordon Crosse: Memories of Morning
Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Alexander Baillie (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
A CD full of glowering and unremittingly intense music... Brilliant performances. —
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Simon Bainbridge: Ad ora incerta
Susan Bickley (mezzo) and Kim Walker (bassoon)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Nash Ensemble, Martyn Brabbins
The BBC Symphony Orchestra plays beuatifully, fully cognisant of the weight of the message being conveyed... Required listening if ever there was. —
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New works for clarinet
A recital of pieces written for, and by composers associated with, clarinettist Andrew Sparling
Andrew Sparling (clarinets)
with Miriam Lowbury (cello), Antony Gray (piano), Thalia Myers (piano), Chris Brannick (percussion), Alan Thomas (guitar)
This disc shows off the clarinet-playing and unusual musical tastes of a familiar figure on the contemporary scene ... The stylistic range is from the jazziness of Nick Hayes' Tongue-Dog to... —
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Christopher Fox is 50 this year, and it is hard to think of a better birthday present than this marvellous disc of his choral music from Exaudi. Exaudi traverse the demands of this music with... —
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Richard Rodney Bennett: Spells
Jane Manning (soprano)
The Bach Choir & Philharmonia Orchestra, Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir David Willcocks, Sir Neville Marriner
A welcome 70th-birthday re-release for Bennett's colourful choral piece of 1975, and for the set of studies for string orchestra written by his close contemporary, Maw. Both are persuasive... —
