Chandos
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There’s plenty of meat in Poulenc’s Sinfonietta, not least in the abundance of memorable tunes...The late Bramwell Tovey is alert to their quality, and especially, as often with Poulenc, to... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2022
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2022
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…these symphonies… have the momentum and flow of the true symphonist, particularly in these persuasive performances. Recommended with enthusiasm. —
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Special offer. Bantock: Omar Khayyám
Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Toby Spence & Roderick Williams
BBC Symphony Chorus & BBC Symphony Orchestra, Vernon Handley
It's a fascinating rediscovery on a huge scale, especially in the detail and depth of SACD surround-sound, seductively performed by Handley's forces, Toby Spence appropriately poetic and Catherine... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2007, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2007, Disc of the Month
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Coming soon. Frank Loesser: Guys and Dolls
Sierra Boggess (Sarah Brown), Nathaniel Hackmann (Sky Masterson), Louise Dearman (Miss Adelaide), David Seadon Young (Nathan Detroit), Sir Thomas Allen (Arvide Abernathy), Damian Humbley (Nicely-Nicely Johnson) Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
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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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George Dyson: The Canterbury Pilgrims
RecommendedYvonne Kenny (soprano), Robert Tear (tenor) & Stephen Roberts (baritone)
London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox
This superb offering of a full-length cantata based on the Prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales bears out its reputation as Dyson's masterpiece. It's a fresh, tuneful work, aptly exuberant... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1997, Winner - Engineering
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Sir Richard Rodney Bennett: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
Colin Currie (marimba)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, John Wilson
Was there anything he couldn’t say musically? No need to answer that, but rejoice in the fact that his friend and champion John Wilson is honouring him in this new series for Chandos…You will... —
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Nielsen: Clarinet Concerto, Helios & Symphony No. 5
Alessandro Carbonare (soloist), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Carbonare's virtuosity searches out every corner of the exacting solo part, while Gardner's accompaniments are vivid and alert...Then comes the Fifth Symphony, in an interpretation brilliantly... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2025, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2025, Orchestral Choice
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Casella: Orchestral Works Volume 1
RecommendedMartin Roscoe (piano)
BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda
...this is a remarkable and engaging work in its own right, with some striking features. In particular, the beautiful opening of the final 'Epilogo' is breathtakingly beautiful...the BBC Philharmonic... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st May 2010
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Mendelssohn in Birmingham, Vol. 3
sung in English, Mary Bevan (soprano I), Sophie Bevan (soprano II) & Benjamin Hulett (tenor)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, CBSO Chorus, Edward Gardner
Calm Sea is one of Mendelssohn's most evocative pieces...and Edward Gardner conducts a most sensitive performance...[in the Symphony] Gardner stresses what over the years we have come to consider... —
