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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... —
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The music is well performed by the London Symphonic Concert Band. The performances have been well recorded by engineer Ben Connellan and producer Siva Oke. —
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Coming soon. Salzedo: Scenes and Dances from The Witch Boy & Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 3
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham
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Throughout, Donohoe’s approach has a robust honesty and an appealing straightforward feel, with an instinct for the emotional rises and falls. —
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Julian Jacobson and Mariko Brown shape the ingenuous yet often convoluted score [of the Busoni] with impressive ensemble precision, textural leanness and polyphonic clarity…The pianists’ straightforward,... —
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Manhattan To Montmartre
George Gershwin & Leonard Bernstein
Julian Jacobson, Mariko Brown (piano duo)
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I Vow To Thee, My Country
Choral Music by Gustav Holst
Katy Hill (soprano), Jonathan Beatty (tenor), Joshua Ryan, Eloise Irving (soprano), Matthew Long (tenor), Clara Kanter (alto), Edward Hughes (tenor), Richard Horne, Angus McPhee (bass), Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, William Vann
Vann’s talent for eliciting intelligent responses to text, and his use of dynamic nuances to clarify meaning, are splendidly evident in the Nunc Dimittis. The 20 singers of the Royal Hospital... —
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Peter Cigleris Plays Clarinet Concertos
Peter Cigleris (clarinet), Győr Symphonic Band (chamber ensemble), Ferenc Szabo, László Marosi
Cigleris is possessed of a beautifully mellifluous tone...as well as the digital and respiratory techniques to ease through the most challenging virtuoso writing. —
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Boult was the dedicatee of Edmund Rubbra’s Second Symphony…Such a deep personal connection shines through every bar of this 1954 studio recording, whose near-incandescent intensity makes the... —
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Vaughan Williams Live, Vol. 2
Elsie Suddaby (soprano), Valentine Dyall (narrator), George Thalben-Ball (organ), Isobel Baillie, Astra Desmond, Beveridge White, Harold Williams, Choir of the Children of the Thomas Coram Schools, BBC Symphony Chorus, The BBC Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
[Job] There is without question an energy and dramatic presence here that is not as evident in the studio recordings. Part of the attraction is the quality of the playing: The BSO strings have... —
