Signum
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Here's a stunning display of unaccompanied part-singing by six consummate vocal artists. Sullivan's 'The Long Day Closes', beautifully shaped and shorn of sentimental Victorian accretions,... —
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LCO 1 - Haydn, Mozart & Beethoven
Melvyn Tan (piano/director)
London Chamber Orchestra (LCO), Rosemary Furniss (director), Christopher Warren-Green
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Hakim Plays Hakim 2
The van den Heuvel Organ of the Danish Radio
Naji Hakim (The van den Heuvel Organ of the Danish Radio)
Every one of the pieces on this disc is worth the attention of any serious music-lover who is interested in developments in modern music outside of the avant-garde and the relevance of such... —
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Cellist Matthew Barley is a fan of Metcalfe’s electronically bolstered cello music and masters it impressively. —
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The excellent Caput Ensemble catch the rarefied and delicate atmosphere of each movement to perfection...A slow-burner of a work, true, but in this impeccable recording with top-notch sound...it... —
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An achingly beautiful selection —
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The playing standard is excellent, with the strings of the Scottish Ensemble finding a light and suitably transparent texture in the Vivaldi, matched by bright, stylish solos from Jonathan Morton...if... —
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.3 & Sibelius: Symphony No. 2
Gerard Aimontche (piano)
Chineke! Orchestra, Roderick Cox
The playing of both works here...is most pleasing, the colours vivid, the excitement palpable, while Aimontche’s sweeping reading of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 3 astutely combines the intimate... —
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Praise my soul
Favourite hymns from Jesus College Cambridge
Jesus College Choir Cambridge, Richard Pinel
