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Ireland: Piano Concerto in E flat major, etc.
Eric Parkin (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bryden Thomson
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These are highly strung performances, not always comfortable but alive. —
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Building a Library, April 2023, Also Recommended
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Vaughan Williams: Riders to the Sea
RecommendedIngrid Attrot (soprano), Lynne Dawson (soprano), Linda Finnie (mezzo-soprano), Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano) & Karl Daymond (baritone), Philip Dukes (viola)
Northern Sinfonia, The Sinfonia Chorus, Richard Hickox
A one-act opera based on the play of the same name, Riders to the Sea is a straightforward tragedy that pits helpless humans against the remorseless sea of Galway Bay. Richard Hickox leads the... —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Bernard Herrmann: Moby Dick & Sinfonietta for Strings
Richard Edgar-Wilson (tenor) & David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)
Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Choir, Michael Schønwandt
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2011, Editor's Choice
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Onyx Brass come alive as responsive individuals most readily in the Shostakovich, The G major Fugue is supremely virtuoso, the E minor resplendent and dramatic, the D major questing and deft. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th June 2008
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For Catherine Mackintosh and Geoffrey Govier the 'rules' of historically informed performance have become second nature; we get the impression they're playing for sheer enjoyment of the music.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2009, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Purcell - Complete Sonatas of Three & Four Parts & Complete Pavans
Risa Browder (violin)
Purcell Quartet
The playing is authoritative and idiomatic, and the artists are firmly focused in a warm but not excessively reverberant acoustic. This is Purcell at his finest. —
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Special offer. Miklós Rózsa: Orchestral Works Volume 2
Jennifer Pike (violin), Paul Watkins (cello)
BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba
The second volume in Chandos's survey of Miklos Rozsa's orchestral output gets off to an auspicious start with a beautifully nuanced performance from violinist Jennifer Pike of the Variations... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2011, Editor's Choice
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Franck: Le Chasseur Maudit & Psyché
RecommendedBBC National Chorus of Wales, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Tadaaki Otaka
The BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales under Tadaaki Otaka clearly relish both the grotesquery of the former and the sensuality of the latter in these engaging performances. —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Dyson: Quo Vadis
Cheryl Barker (soprano), Jean Rigby (mezzo-soprano), Philip Langridge (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone)
BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales, Chamber Choir of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Richard Hickox
Like so many British composers Dyson, even before he died in 1962, suffered neglect through writing in a conservative idiom that critics were all too ready to label 'out of date'. Originally... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2003, Editor's Choice
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