Hyperion
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The 50-strong oratory choir is made up entirely of boys, and conductor Charles Cole draws singing of vernal freshness from them, with excellent ensemble and an interpretive awareness that puts... —
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 59 - Zarzycki & Zelenski
Jonathan Plowright (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz
[the Zelenski] is an imposing piece: its technical challenges are exhilaratingly dispatched by Jonathan Plowright, while no detail of its dark Slavonic colouring escapes the attention of the... —
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 44 - Henryk Melcer
Jonathan Plowright (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Christoph König
The Second Concerto… is crowned by a hair-raising final Allegro con fuoco, a remarkable tour de force which, were it ever to be heard in a concert hall, would have you on your feet at the end... —
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 41 - Kalkbrenner 1 & 4
Howard Shelley (piano & conductor)
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
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Holst: the Evening Watch & Other Choral Works
John Birch (organ), Christopher Mercer (tenor), Joya Logan (alto), Isobel Collyer (soprano), Holst Singers, Holst Orchestra, Hilary Davan Wetton
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Even the most out-and-out purists who blench at the thought of Bach on the piano will find it hard not to be won over by Angela Hewitt's artistry. Eschewing all hieratic pretentiousness on the... —
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The group’s name suggests a band of wrongly imprisoned miscreants, but they make celestial sounds in Vaughan Williams’s neo-plainsong The Truth Sent from Above and Holst’s Lullay My Liking.... —
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 22 & 24
Angela Hewitt (piano)
National Arts Centre Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
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Jerusalem on High
Victorian voluntaries and concert pieces for organ based on hymns, chorales and psalm-tunes
Graham Barber (organ of Tewkesbury Abbey)
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Duruflé: Requiem
Aaron Webber (treble), Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Ian Simcock (organ), Natalie Clein (cello)
The Choir of Westminster Cathedral, James O'Donnell (The Master of Music)
