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For all Adrian Bradbury’s richly seductive tone, stylistic sensitivity and evident affection for the music (not to mention pianist Andrew West ’s illuminating rapport), it’s with the Cyril Scott... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Some of the songs are set in an almost epigrammatic fashion, so that the listener’s attention is never allowed to waver. A. E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad has often been set to music, but Somervell... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2020
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Lozano Rolong's voice is rich, creamy and particularly compelling in her lower register. Araújo offers refined, sensitive playing, though occasionally more presence would be welcome...Alma is... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2025, Editor's Choice
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Frankly Speaking with Leopold Stokowski
Gloria Lane (soprano)), John Bowen, Reginald Jacques, George Scott, BBC Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Leopold Stokowski
[Music] ‘expresses some kind of depth of feeling which I cannot describe to you, as words are not my medium’. Conductor Leopold Stokowski interviewed for BBC Radio’s ‘Frankly Speaking’ series,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2025, Archive Choice
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Kathleen Ferrier in New York
Bruno Walter, Set Svanholm, New York Philharmonic, Kathleen Ferrier, John Newmark
This disc is a musical time capsule in many ways, above all for Ferrier’s divine singing under Walter’s baton of Das Lied von der Erde… ‘Der Abschied’ is magical: her voice is so fresh, gloriously... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2020, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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The Songs of Edward Elgar
Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo soprano), Neil Mackie (tenor), Christopher Maltman (baritone) & Malcolm Martineau (piano)
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Janáček: The Makropulos Affair & The Diary of the One Who Disappeared
Stanley Bevan, Gregory Dempsey, Jenny Hill, Eric Shilling, Marie Collier, Raimund Herincx (bass-baritone), Joan Davies, Michael Maurel, John Chorley, Cragg Sinkinson, Margaret Gale, Richard Lewis (soloist), Ernest Lush (accompaniment), Maureen Forrester (contralto), Sadler's Wells Opera Orchestra,...
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The musical language is popular late 20th century – not much extended harmony – and lots and lots of broken chords and arpeggios...Ultimately, though, the message in these pieces is explored... —
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David Matthews: Anna: Symphonic Diptych; Symphony No. 11; Flute Concerto
Emma Halnan, Ulster Orchestra, Jac van Steen
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Elgar - Enigma Variations
Gladys Ripley (contralto)
London Symphony & Philharmonia Orchestra, George Weldon
Superb, astonishing performances from a most underrated conductor. Both orchestras play with non-stop intensity, with Glady's Ripley an exquisite soloist in Sea Pictures. Decent sound for... —
