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Fair Albion - Visions of England
New Works by Patrick Hawes
Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano), Julian Lloyd webber (cello), Claire Jones (harp), Patrick Hawes (piano), Christian Forshaw, David Stout (baritone)
The Raven Quartet, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Brno Chamber Orchestra and Chamber Choir, The Sanctuary Ensemble, Duke Quartet
Elin Manahan Thomas's lyric soprano voice provides the ideal vehicle for Hawes's neo-Baroque setting of George Herbert's The Call. Reflexionem for cello and harp is given a similarly uplifting... —
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The CD is designed to recreate the atmosphere and sense of occasion at the RSNO's very popular Christmas concerts with Bell, and it certainly succeeds: the orchestra and choirs are on cracking... —
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Bell conducts both cycles with an urgent flow and, in the Britten, a sense of biting anger in This Little Babe and Deo Gracias...The voices are rich-toned, well-balanced and powered by developing... —
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Given the instrument's historical context, the Lunar Saxophone Quartet operate where classical shades into jazz...James Williamson's In Memoriam is achingly contemplative, while the title of... —
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LCO 2 - Mendelssohn & Beethoven
Melvyn Tan (piano, direction)
London Chamber Orchestra (LCO), Christopher Warren-Green
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Salonen surely does nearly everything that most of us require from a cutting-edge interpreter with plenty to say. His Boulezian ear for balance keeps all the textures phantasmagorically clear...[His]... —
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This fresh sounding live recording from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Thierry Fischer, the first made in the BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff, certainly has a sense of occasion about... —
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The present recording is sung entirely by male voices and never once is there a loss of clarity, a hint of muddiness (the opening of the Lamentations, though coming at the end of the disc, could... —
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Hawes, P: Lazarus Requiem
Thomas Walker (tenor), Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano) & Rachael Lloyd (mezzo-soprano)
Exeter Philharmonic Choir, Exeter Cathedral Choir & Royal Scottish National Orchestra
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A Festival of Psalms
Sally Pryce (harp), Robert Millett (percussion) & Greg Morris & Ian Le Grice (organ)
The Choir of the Temple Church, James Vivian (director)
this anthology links the liturgies of Jewish and Christian traditions...
The organ can sometimes hang too heavily over the pieces by Wesley and Parry. But the highlight is the beautiful version... —
