Chandos
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Through the Centuries - Songs of Madeleine Dring
Kitty Whately (mezzo-soprano), Julius Drake (piano)
I can confirm that Kitty Whately proves a wholly persuasive and personable exponent of some enticing repertoire, and Julius Drake provides characteristically deft and wonderfully sensitive support... —
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Throughout this superlative recital, Imogen Cooper's artistic sensibility - highly personal, interpretatively penetrating, yet never didactic - reflects a sympathy with the music so intimate... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2013, Instrumental Choice
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Vaughan Williams: In the Fen Country, etc.
RecommendedMichael Davis (violin)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Bryden Thomson
A most attractive compilation. —
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Building a Library, May 2002, Runner-Up
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Stokowski's Symphonic Bach, Volume 2
Works by J S Bach, orchestrated by Leopold Stokowski
BBC Philharmonic, Matthias Bamert
Extraordinary how Bach's influence on later composers can suddenly snap into focus in Stokowski's ingenious orchestrations - Brahms, Mendelssohn and Mahler are among the allusions. Excellent... —
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No quartet in my experience has employed such a wide range of colour and dynamics in this music, often with revelatory results…the Doric's daring, imaginative and technically superb performances... —
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Doreen Carwithen: Piano Concerto, Bishop Rock, ODTAA, Suffolk Suite
Howard Shelley (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox
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It’s hard to imagine a more unlikely orchestral pairing. It works mightily well, however, with the Gothenburg Symphony hugely atmospheric in Rautavaara’s Cantus Arcticus then warmly, playfully... —
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Delius: Appalachia & The Song of the High Hills
Andrew Rupp (baritone), Olivia Robinson (soprano)
Christopher Bowen (tenor)
BBC Symphony Chorus & BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
Davis combines a sensitive feeling for tempo and shape with superfine detail of phrasing and balancing...The BBC Symphony Orchestra plays for its former chief conductor with precision and spirit,... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Choral
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2003, Editor's Choice
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Performances of all four works are outstanding, with the Chandos sound bringing out the full richness of Respighi's writing. —