Dutton
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Lionel Sainsbury & John Foulds: Cello Concertos
Raphael Wallfisch (cello)
Royal National Scottish Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Martin Yates
Always a spirited champion of British repertoire, Raphael Wallfisch gives the piece his considerable all, with Martin Yates and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra sweeping happily alongside...Wallfisch's... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2012, Editor's Choice
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Cyril Scott - Sonata Lirica
and other works for violin and piano
Clare Howick (violin) & Sophia Rahman (piano)
The Scott revival marches on! The Sonata lirica (1937) was lost for years and this seems to be its first performance. Hearing it without knowing the composer, one might have guessed Delius.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2008, Editor's Choice
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Widor: Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 1 & La Nuit de Walpurgis
World premiere recordings
Sergey Levitin (violin)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates
This valuable new release, the third volume in Martin Yates's Widor series, shows exactly why the Goethe-inspired score enjoyed success during the composer's lifetime…it is an orchestral tour... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, Orchestral Choice
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Toivo Kuula: Songs and Orchestral Music
World Premiere Recordings (in these versions)
Susan Gritton (soprano)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Susan Gritton's performance is operatically charged, and very effective, as is her involving account of the 12-minute song-story Impi Ja Pajarin Poika...[Hiidet Virvoja Viritti] has a dash of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2012, Editor's Choice
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Phillips's music, like that of Sullivan, German and Coleridge-Taylor, was on the more serious side of 'light'. He had a thorough technical musical grounding at the Royal Academy of Music, where... —
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Building a Library, June 2011, Featured
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Edward Elgar - The Spirit of England
Susan Gritton (soprano), Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Iain Farrington (organ)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, David Lloyd-Jones
Lloyd-Jones conducts a powerful performance, bitingly dramatic in 'The Fourth of August', with the chorus in superb form...Susan Gritton sings brightly and with clarity...a fascinating disc,... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Choral
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Alan Rawsthorne - Practical Cats
narrated by Simon Callow, Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones
Baritone Jeremy Huw Williams is his usual reliable self in the Diptych, and everything is expertly paced and balanced, crisply played and brightly recorded. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2008, Editor's Choice
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Martin Yates conducts Bate, Arnell & Chisholm
Recorded: Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow, 17-18 September 2009
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates
Martin Yates and the RSNO seem understandably swept away with the gripping music, and excellent sound helps makes this very much one of the most impressive Dutton discs to have come my way —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2010, Editor's Choice
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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 (new edition)
and works by Christopher Wright
Fenella Humphreys (violin), Christopher Watson (tenor)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Martin Yates
Wright's idiom - both listener-friendly and superbly skilled, with never a wasted note - has no problems sustaining a 35-minute design. Violinist Fenella Humphreys responds to its elegiac reflection... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, Orchestral Choice
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[Hadley's] music, though popular in his lifetime, has an eclectic quality that nowadays strikes us as derivative…the performances from the BBC Concert Orchestra under the American conductor... —
