EM Records
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Special offer. Havas - Music by George Lloyd & Judith Bailey
World Premiere Recordings
Miriam Lowbury (cello), Jennie-Lee Keetley (cor anglais)
Bath Philharmonia, Jason Thornton
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The Light of Love
Rob Burton, Alba Merchant, Eluned Pierce, Simon Earl, Matt Mears, Timothy Bagley, Tredici, Andrew Foan
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Prayer - the Songs of Morten Lauridsen
Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Paula Fan (piano), Caryl Hughes, John Reynolds, Peter Esswood, Morten Lauridsen
In contrast to the ethereal choral sound of his famous O magnum mysterium...Lauridsen’s style for solo voice is knotty, expressive and dramatic. Setting texts by Rilke, Lorca and others, his... —
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Special offer. Parry: Early Chamber Works
World Premiere Recording
with Robert Gibbs (viola)
The Bridge Quartet
It is not before time that both these substantial Parry chamber works are at last available on CD...The Bridge Quartet provide sympathetic interpretations of this unfamiliar repertoire which...deserves... —
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Styles range from the ethereal world of Bax to a couple of folky numbers by Alwyn and, at the end, a little levity by way of Paul Lewis’s Divertimento. —
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The best is Arthur Somervell’s Maud, 13 songs based on excerpts from Tennyson’s narrative poem of love, death and mental distraction. Thorsett shows sensitivity to text and articulation, and... —
