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The songs themselves are really good ones and the performances are top class. Carole Farley is a fine advocate for Grieg and the orchestrations, expertly realised by two London orchestras under... —
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This winter programme includes music by John Tavener, Oliver Tarney and US composer Don Macdonald, whose Fusion enterprisingly dispenses with words altogether, instead using arrangements of... —
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Directed by William Vann, the Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, with its clear, ringing tone, provides beautifully nuanced performances, especially of the a cappella items, Stanford’s numinous... —
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In songs which seem perilously sentimental to the modern ear…Rudge is deft at dialing back the whimsy, and distilling genuine emotion…Glynn’s fluid accompaniment is a model of supportive sensitivity. —
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Each of the five very strong female voices in this accomplished professional consort is full of character, yet they blend perfectly when required in a sequence of immaculate performances of... —
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The Gluepot Connection
Choral Music by Ireland, Rawsthorne, Warlock, Bax, Alan Bush, Lutyens, Walton & EJ Moeran
Londinium Chamber Choir, Andrew Griffiths
Tenuous links to alcohol apart, there is some fine music-making on this disc. A rapt performance of Peter Warlock’s The Full Heart opens it, the discomfiting harmonies and eerie suspensions... — -
Elgar from America, Vol. 1
Gregor Piatigorsky (cello)
NBC Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini, John Barbirolli, Artur Rodziński
There are several live versions of Toscanini conducting Elgar’s Enigma Variations, but in Elgar from America his 1949 performance has the benefit of Lani Spahr’s expert sound restoration, making... —
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These are all still exceptionally beautiful, valuable reminders of an extraordinary artist. —
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Tenor James Gilchrist performs all of the songs in this collection, and in masterful fashion...his technical prowess is aligned with a remarkably involved and expressive delivery, aided in great... —
