Divine Art
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The English Tenor
Scott Robert Shaw (tenor), Luba Podgayskaya, Eva de Vries, William Drakett, Emilie Bastens, James Williams
this is his debut solo recital. It reveals a voice of satisfying tonal smoothness, deployed to plangent effect in ‘Sleep’ from Ivor Gurney’s Five Elizabethan Songs. By the end of Gurney’s cycle,... —
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Frederick Paul Naftel: Orchestral, Chamber and Instrumental Works
Tubalaté, Haley Myles, Northern Film Orchestra String Quartet, Melvin Tay, The Campion Orchestra, Northern Film Orchestra
For me, the standout work is the Folksong Suite (2021), a modest enough sequence of Rondo, Lament and Country Dance, based on six British folk songs including ‘Early one morning’, ‘Loch Lomond’... —
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Rich Romanticism combined with touches of folk, hints of orientalism and, in Piazzolla’s Estaciones Porteñas, the sharp heels and smokiness of tango. This is terrific stuff, excellently played. —
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Ghost Songs
Síle Denvir, Dairena Ní Chinnéide, Paula Meehan, Carl Corcoran, Marina Carr, Niamh Murray, Niall Hayes, Derina Johnson, Alan Duff, Jane Kelly, Trudy Maguire, Laetare Vocal Ensemble, Róisín Blunnie
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Ysaye: Violin Discoveries
Sherban Lupu (violin), Henri Bonamy (piano), Liepaja Symphony Orchestra, Paul Mann
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This music is never less than very attractive, certainly individual and always intriguing... Here he [Honeybourne] is perfectly attuned to the complex sound world of Baines’ keyboard writing... —
