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James McCarthy: Codebreaker & Will Todd: Ode to a Nightingale
Julia Doyle (soprano)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Hertfordshire Chorus, David Temple
Taken as a whole I greatly admired the honesty and sincerity of this music drama…The BBC Concert Orchestra offer superb support to both composers and the engineering is up to Signum’s customary... —
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Walton's musical thought continues to deepen, with each movement taking the listener further into the tangle of complexities that the music has to offer, his spirited performance...closely channelling... —
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Bednall: Welcome All Wonders: A Christmas Cantata
The Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford, Owen Rees (director)
Bednall’s work makes a bright, immediate impression, the idiom, accessible without being superficial. —
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This recording includes Reger’s two biggest works for organ: Variations and Fuge on an Original Theme and Introduction and Passacaglia in E minor…well-handled by Goode. —
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The rare Variations are fun and well worth an airing. —
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Only a Singing Bird
Karen Cargill (mezzo) & Philip Moore (piano)
NYCoS National Girls Choir, Christopher Bell
a fruitful vehicle for showcasing what the Girls Choir of the National Youth Choir of Scotland is capable of. What’s striking is how evenly matched in quality the different voice parts are when... —
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Oliver Davis: Arcadia
Benjamin Baker (violin), Huw Watkins (piano), Kerenza Peacock (violin)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The Hanke Brothers, Paul Bateman
Oliver Davis writes music that is easy on the ears, full of warm harmonies and buoyant rhythms. There’s no denying, though, a general lack of oomph and rigour in the works featured here. —
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