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Margot Wright: Chamber Music
Rachel Ann Morgan (mezzo-soprano), Nancy Braithwaite (clarinet), Frank Mol (piano)
CAMILLI STRING QUARTET: Elisabeth Perry & Rachel Browne (violins), Prunella Pacey (viola), Melissa Phelps (cello)
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Milford, Britten and Delius: Violin Concertos
Philippe Graffin (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Nicholas Collon, David Lloyd-Jones
Britten's music is wiry and nervous, dotted with a timpani tattoo…Graffin gives a very strong reading, fully reflecting the music's jitters. Nicholas Collon and the Philharmonia excel too, especially... —
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John Alden Carpenter: Krazy Kat - A Jazz Pantomime
Michael Chertock (piano)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Keith Lockhart
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John McCabe: Arthur Pendragon
John McCabe (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Austin
The most consistently fine and distinctive piece is Pilgrim - what is it about massed strings that so often brings out the best in English composers? The strings of the BBC Scottish sound as... —
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Montague Phillips - Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
World premiere recordings
David Owen Norris (piano)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Gavin Sutherland
Purely for sound quality, this disc is a winner. It is a sumptuous, full-blooded recording with a richly resonant bass matched by the soloist's powerful Fazioli. Both concertos are real finds.... —
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De'Ath (partnered by Anna Alexeyev in four 4-hand arrangements) must be Scott's ultimate advocate. His playing, as ever, is always enthusiastic and intelligent… —
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Stephen Dodgson: String Quartets Volume 2
Recorded at St Silas Church, Chalk Farm, London, 9-11 January 2007 & 31 January 2008
Craig Ogden (guitar)
The Tippett Quartet
From start to finish it's genuinely difficult to imagine how the Tippett Quartet's performances could be bettered. Besides the bombproof tuning and unerring balance and ensemble, there's a... —
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Lyapunov's consciously Russian chants, songs and dances sound as good as their models - Borodin very much to the fore - and the framing moonshine of his Nocturne brings playing of spellbinding... —
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There are some rewarding discoveries here, not least the two sonatas for cello and piano.
Both were penned during the first half of the 1940s, though the sketches for the B minor Sonata date... —Purchase product
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