Hyperion
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John McCabe's Fourth Symphony, some half an hour in duration, has something Sibelian about its utterly inevitable, ever-evolving progress. Behind the frequently prodigal surface activity, one... —
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…Philip Martin's performances replace obvious dazzle with an engaging warmth and affection coupled with a mischievous twinkle when required. —
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The Nash players do these deeply attractive and enjoyable works proud… in affectionate performances that revel in Coleridge-Taylor's idiomatic and challenging writing. —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Chamber Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2007, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, June 2017, Also Recommended
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The Piano Quartet… is unadulterated Beethoven - his own transcription of his Op. 16 Quintet for piano and winds, with the wind instruments replaced by a string trio. The result deserves to... —
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The programme here has an identity of its own and as such is without competitors. Its 'theme' is to collect those of Vaughan Williams's songs which have something other than piano accompaniment.... —
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Building a Library, March 2001, First Choice
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Angela Hewitt responds intuitively and alluringly to the multi-faceted character of these sonatas —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2016, Instrumental Choice
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Arvo Pärt: Choral Music
Rachel Ambrose Evans (soprano), Richard Bannan (bass)
Polyphony, Stephen Layton
Alleluia-Tropos (2008) originally included eight cellos (a favourite sonority for Pärt has always loved cello ensembles) but Polyphony's sound is, as always, so rich and beautiful that there... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2014, Editor's Choice
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Arias for Guadagni
Recommendedthe first modern castrato
Iestyn Davies (countertenor)
Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
Through his effortless line, countertenor Iestyn Davies revivifies Guadagni's Orphic powers...Whether drawing out sustained notes or knitting together filigreed coloratura, he is a paragon of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2012, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Recital
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This is domestic music, after all, and perhaps a certain amount of understatement actually enhances the boldness of Haydn’s invention. Hyperion’s recorded sound captures that small-room acoustic... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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The music of Federico Mompou may appear at first to consist of little more than charming, delicately scented but dilettantish salon near-improvisations with marked overtones of Erik Satie; but... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1998, Winner - Instrumental
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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