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[Bax] has technique to burn but also has the unteachable ability to tug at the heart strings...In the transcriptions, Bax pays particular attention to the intricate weaving of separate voices,... —
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How Are the Mighty Fallen: Choral Music By Giovanni Bononcini
The Choir of Queen's College, Oxford, Elizabeth Nurse (mezzo-soprano), Colin Danskin (tenor), Daniel Tate (bass-baritone), Esther Lay (mezzo-soprano), Helen Charlston (vocalist), Rowan Pierce (soprano), Giles Underwood (bass-baritone), Guy Cutting (tenor), The Choir of the Queen's College Oxford,...
Concise choruses are sung with a sure sense of harmonic shaping and immaculate diction, although Bononcini’s setting concentrates primarily on movements designed for soloists. —
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Special offer. Eleanor Daley: Requiem and other works
Esmé Ellis (soprano), Marcus Coleridge (baritone), Lucy Mitten (soprano), Lingling Bao-Smith (soprano), Phoebe Wakefield (soprano), James Gooding (baritone), Alan Thomas, Royal Holloway Choir, Rupert Gough
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every number here has something particularly arresting within it, all supported by persuasive and committed singing, and playing of intense charm. —
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Schubert in English Vol. 4
Roderick Williams (baritone), Rowan Pierce (soprano), Christopher Glynn (piano)
There’s nothing at all reverential about Jeremy Sams’s translations of the 21 songs here. They are witty, fit the music like an expensive glove and tell good stories, but, importantly, they... —
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Thomas Tallis - Complete Works Volume 9
Instrumental Music and Songs
Andrew Benson-Williams (organ), Laurence Cummings (virginals), Lynda Sayce (lute), Stephen Taylor (counter tenor)
Charivari Agréable, Chapelle du Roi, Alistair Dixon
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2004, Editor's Choice
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Roxanna Panufnik: Love Abide
Colla Voce Singers, VOCES8 & London Mozart Players
Barnaby Smith, Lee Ward, David Ogden
A rich offering on a theme of interfaith connectivity. The Japanese lullaby-inspired Zen Love Song and title work Love Abide are totally absorbing. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Contemporary Music
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Arthur stresses how much these works owe to Bach’s early immersion in Vivaldi’s set of concertos L’estro armonico, several of which he transcribed, and that Italian influence does indeed permeate... —
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 'Pathétique' & Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream Overture
Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras
The symphony's first movement, especially, reaches a level of intensity that's seriously frightening, with astonishing virtuoso firepower from every corner of the orchestra. —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2011, Editor's Choice
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