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The first thing that strikes you about ‘Perpetual Twilight’ is the sheer number and quality of young tenors…Produced by Nigel Short, this whole project exudes quality, from the choral texture... —
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[The Beethoven] receives a delightfully engaging performance here, offsetting Watkins’s opulent warmth against Julius Drake’s sparkling pianism, with passing moments of earthy good humour embraced... —
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Schubert: Swansong
all works sung in English translations by Jeremy Sams
Christopher Glynn (piano), Sir John Tomlinson, Sophie Bevan (soprano), Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn), Julian Bliss (clarinet)
These songs of love, foreboding, longing and anguish hit you with raw force. This is the voice of a more mature lover, true, but Tomlinson’s dedication to text and nuance is vigorous as ever. —
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Given the more than 200 recording of the B minor Sonata currently available, it’s difficult to make an individual statement in the piece without veering into the realms of self-indulgent eccentricity.... —
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This warrants a top recommendation, for Gallicantus surpass the mixed ensembles technically and edge The Hilliards’ more reverential account interpretatively. —
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The ‘songs without words’ duly commissioned honour [Burgess's] roots while being stylistically wide-ranging, showcasing seven composers with whom Burgess has formed close relationships. Each... —
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The Philharmonia was clearly on its collective toes for this young Finnish conductor – now its principal conductor designate – in this live recording made in February last year. The mildly resonant... —
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Manu Martin: Lim Fantasy of Companionship For Piano and Orchestra
Tedd Joselson (piano), London Symphony Orchestra, London Voices, Arthur Fagen
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Ian Venables: Love Lives Beyond the Tomb
Graham J Lloyd (piano), Mary Bevan (soprano), Allan Clayton (tenor), Eoin Schmidt-Martin, Carducci Quartet
A highly reflective, mournful set of songs and cycles interpreted with dramatic flair by Bevan and Clayton. Venables’s intuitive vocal writing is fraught with emotion. —
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