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Boughton: The Queen of Cornwall
A music-drama based on the play by Thomas Hardy
Heather Shipp (Queen Iseult), Joan Rodgers (Iseult of Brittany, the Whitehanded), Jacques Imbrailo (Sir Tristram), Patricia Orr (Brangwain), Neal Davies (King Mark), Peter Wilman (Sir Andret), Elizabeth Weisberg (Damsel)
New London Orchestra, Members of The London Chorus, Ronald Corp
If you can ignore the words, the writing for both voices and orchestra has a surging confidence that's very appealing, and the musical substance grows on one with repeated hearings. In a strong... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2011, Editor's Choice
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Opera, March 2011, Recording of the Month
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This is the first CD devoted to [Collins's] own highly enjoyable music...His most famous piece of all is the disarmingly simple Vanity Fair. First performed in 1952, this is the composition... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Handel: Messiah
RecommendedDame Isobel Baillie, Gladys Ripley, James Johnston, Norman Walker
Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Huddersfield Choral Society, Sir Malcolm Sargent
From the 1940s until the early 1960s one of the greatest of regular British musical events (every bit as important as the Proms) was Malcolm Sargent's Messiah. He conducted it up and down the... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Chaminade: Callirhoë - Ballet Symphonique & Concertstück for piano and orchestra
Victor Sangiorgio (piano)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Martin Yates
The piano part [of the Concertstück] is full of the vertiginous scampering we find in so much 19th-century French piano music, to which Victor Sangiorgio does full justice; but perhaps Cecile... —
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Vaughan Williams - The Future, The Steersman, Fantasia, Flourish for Glorious John
Lucy Crowe (soprano), Jacques Imbrailo (baritone), Andrew von Oeyen (piano), BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martin Yates
Yates secures a rousing response from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, making a strong case that The Future is by no means second-rate Vaughan Williams and deserves wider exposure. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Ralph Vaughan Williams: Early and Late Works
Guy Johnston (cello)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates
The stand-out music...comes in Dark Pastoral. This is David Matthews's wonderfully skilled and imaginative, yet always-in-style completion of the slow movement of an unfinished cello concerto...Johnston's... —
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 'Eroica', Coriolan Overture & Brahms: Academic Festival Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2
Artur Rubinstein (piano)
The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy
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Ina Boyle: Orchestral Works
Benjamin Baker (violin), Nadège Rochat (cello)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Ronald Corp
Boyle’s music is very much worth hearing…Soloist Benjamin Baker makes a particularly strong impression in the opening movement’s sweet rhapsodising…[Nightwinds] has a bracing swirl and snap... —
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
Margaret Price (soprano), Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano), London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Leopold Stokowski
