Hyperion
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Elgar: Enigma Variations
& other orchestral works
Florence Daguerre de Hureaux (narrator), Yann Ghiro (clarinet)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Exceptional Elgar. ‘Nimrod’ has the grandeur of a Bruckner slow movement. —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2016, Disc of the month
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Ibragimova makes a strikingly distinctive contribution, albeit subtle and restrained…she introduces minute expressive emphases and nuances into her solo line, sustaining the hypnotic motoric... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd October 2015
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2015, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2015
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Building a Library, November 2023, Also recommended - BWV1041
Purchase product
Vinyl Record
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The seven ‘Friedemann’ preludes sound especially effective as rendered on the clavichord by Esfahani, his intimate fluctuations of dynamic and tempo drawn out with beguiling freedom and sensitivity... —
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Baker here boldly claims Byrd's three Masses for the Westminster Cathedral Choir...Despite the choir's muscle and numbers this disc's mood is intimate...Some Byrd devotees may object to Baker's... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2014, Choral & Song Choice
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The drama and flamboyant colours of Baroque Rome's art and architecture and wonderfully present in this reconstruction of its sacred music. This recording's breadth of moods, devices and styles... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2011, Choral & Song Choice
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Not just for Salome did Strauss demand several voices in one: here he ranges from the ditzy skitterings of the Ophelia Songs via the full-on operatic scena that is the Schwarzkopf favourite... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Vocal Finalist
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Fine performances, but I can’t imagine that anyone will want to listen to anything for sometime after this colossal Hammerklavier. —
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[No. 8’s] main point of interest is its slow movement – a serene piece of Romantic ardour, played with admirable poetic warmth by Piers Lane…[in No. 9] Lane manages the seemingly endless cascades... —
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This affecting collection contains music for mourning and remembrance...The great experience and skill of these singers provide perfect tuning in pieces such as Tallis’s In ieiunio (sung at... —
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MacMillan: Tenebrae Responsories
& other choral works
Peter Stevens (organ), Alexander Hopkins (treble)
Westminster Cathedral Choir & London Brass, Martin Baker
MacMillan creates a magnificent effusion of sound, over which the trebles of the Westminster Cathedral Choir soar dramatically...[the Edinburgh Te Deum] is particularly valuable, further attesting... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2013, Editor's Choice
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