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Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Elizabeth Sombart (piano), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Pierre Vallet
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Three works by the US-born British composer David Bruce immediately alert you to both his qualities (freshness, clarity, impulsive response to the world around him) and methods (patterning,... —
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Vaughan Williams: Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus
Daniel De-Fry, Orchestra of the Swan, David Le Page
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Palimpsest
Sam Corkin (saxophone), Jamie Rogers (organ), Canterbury Cathedral Choir, David Newsholme
If the saxophone sometimes appears as something of an addition to the choral writing, the best examples – such as Gabriel Jackson’s stirring Sancte Deus or Francis Pott’s luminescent Rosa sine... —
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Clara Schumann and Edvard Grieg Piano Concertos
Alexandra Dariescu (piano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Tianyi Lu
There’s an authority and natural ease to her performance [of the Grieg], matched by some lovely playing from the Philharmonia. —
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Strauss: Duet Concertino, Prelude To Capriccio
Stepan Turnovsky, Ernst Ottensamer (clarinet), Academy of London, Northern Sinfonia, Richard Stamp
Appalachian Spring in its original chamber scoring gets the most chamber scoring gets the most convincing reading…Richard Stamp secures real zip in the faster music, secures real zip in the... —
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The Tree
Joseph Wicks, Jack Ross, John Challenger, Glen Dempsey, Choir of St John's College Cambridge, Yale Schola Cantorum, Andrew Nethsingha, David Hill, Christopher Robinson
An album of hope for recovery. Andrew Nethsingha is explicit in his eloquent booklet essay that this latest well-crafted and beautifully sung disc from the Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge... —
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Echoes
Graham Instrall, Raphael Mizraki, Sally Harrop, Daniel de Fry, Nick Stringfellow, Catherine Leech, Viv McLean (piano), Simon Desbruslais, Clara Sanabras, Mark Le Brocq, Orchestra of the Swan, David Le Page, Philip Sheppard
Whether you cherry-pick or listen through, this third ‘mixtape ’ album from the versatile Swans is occasionally transportive. —
