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Elgar: The Music Makers & The Spirit of England
Dame Sarah Connolly, Andrew Staples, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Andrew Davis
Sir Andrew Davis and his forces, especially Sarah Connolly and Andrew Staples (why is this wonderful tenor so little recorded?), give their all and one can’t imagine their being performed more... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2018, Editor's Choice
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Falla: La Vida Breve
Nancy Fabiola Herrera (Salud), Aquiles Machado (Paco), Cristina Faus (La Abuela), José Antonio López (Tío Sarvaor), Raquel Lojendio (Carmela), Josep Miquel Ramon (Manuel)
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena
While there’s plenty of Iberian flavour to this recording, including a flamenco cantor of properly reedy vocal depth, Mena never lets us forget that the work is in that Italian [verismo] tradition…[Fabiola... —
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Opera, June 2019, Disc of the Month
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Bliss: The Beatitudes, Introduction and Allegro & God save the Queen
RecommendedEmily Birsan (soprano), Ben Johnson (tenor)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, Sir Andrew Davis
There is no doubting Sir Andrew Davis’s grasp of The Beatitudes, and he steers a broadly authoritative performance, with incisive, committed playing from the BBC Symphony Orchestra…Davis’s punchy,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Vivaldi: Gloria & Bach: Magnificat
RecommendedEmma Kirkby, Tessa Bonner (sopranos), Michael Chance (counter-tenor), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
Collegium Musicum 90, Richard Hickox
Hickox sets effective tempos in Bach's Magnificat and points up the many striking contrasts in colour and texture with which the piece abounds. From among the many successful features of the... —
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Building a Library, December 2018, Recommended Recording
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Building a Library, March 2001, First Choice
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Building a Library, June 2019, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Howells - Piano Concertos
Howard Shelley (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox
An astonishing revelation, especially to anyone who still thinks of Herbert Howells as a nostalgic English rhapsodist, more at home in an organ loft than a concert hall. The First Piano Concerto... —
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Parry: Orchestral and Choral Works
Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales
Amanda Roocroft (soprano)
BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales, Neeme Järvi
This is breast-swelling stuff...the BBC National Orchestra of Wales gives warmly sympathetic renditions of music which was probably completely unfamiliar to them before the recording sessions.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2012, Editor's Choice
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Rumon Gamba's 77-minute suite in six parts from Korngold's towering score for The SeaHawk (1940) sensibly follows the action and will leave no listener in any doubt as to the giddy fecundity... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2008, Editor's Choice
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Gardner conducts these pieces with a highly satisfying blend of freedom and discipline. In some of Mendelssohn's more lyrical moments...you need a metronome to judge his rhythmic flexibility,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2014, Orchestral Choice
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