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The Beecham Collection
Isobel Baillie (soprano), Mary Jarred (contralto), Heddle Nash (tenor), Keith Falkner (baritone)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Leeds Festival Chorus, Sir Thomas Beecham
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A Peter Warlock Christmas
Margaret Cable (mezzo-soprano), Matthew Morley (organ), Rosemary Barnes (piano)
Allegri Singers, Rosamunde String Quartet, Louis Halsey
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These are passionate, focused, full-blooded readings without a hint of reticence or apology. Alexander Baillie and John Thwaites invest each work with the power of utter belief, and as a result... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2013, Chamber Choice
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Ralph Vaughan Williams: Live, Vol. 1
The BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent
Scrubbing up under expert technological ablutions, the RPO under Sargent sounds simply electrifying in this live recording of the 1958 world premiere of Vaughan Williams’s craggy Symphony No... —
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2022
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Martin Roscoe and the Coull Quartet take [the Piano Quintet] seriously as chamber music...[and] demonstrate well enough what a coherently and originally argued work the mature Voces Intimae... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2010, Editor's Choice
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…the Handel Players' performances are assured and surprisingly lyrical. —
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It was high time someone blew the interpretive cobwebs off this still under-appreciated repertoire, and Donohue is clearly the person to do it. He appears to take early Beethoven as his interpretive... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2019, Recording of the Month
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The Dream of Gerontius is notable for the singing of Richard Lewis – his New York debut – freer than in his later studio recording. Even more impressive is the Canadian contralto Maureen Forrester,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2022, Archive Issue of the Month
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There’s a lovely old-school, almost Ferrier-esque quality to this young Liverpudlian mezzo’s timbre, as evinced by her upcoming Sea Pictures with Vasily Petrenko, and it suits Harty’s pleasantly... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2020
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