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Warm, confident interpretations from the Royal Holloway singers. —
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in Andrew-John Smith [Saint-Saens has] an advocate who understands just how to lift from the printed page and project this remarkably rigorous yet beguiling music. The combination of this artist... —
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Hamelin's combination of fleet-fingered delicacy and compelling drive suit Schumann's aesthetic ideally; but best of all is his gleeful sense of storytelling. He brings the masked ball guests... —
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Building a Library, July 2006, First Choice
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Vaughan Williams - Serenade to Music
Elizabeth Connell (soprano), Amanda Roocroft (soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Martyn Hill (tenor), Maldwyn Davies (tenor), Anne Dawson (soprano), Linda Kitchen (soprano), Alan Opie (baritone), Gwynne Howell (bass), Thomas Allen (baritone), Nobuko Imai (viola), English Chamber Orchestra, Corydon...
In 1938 Sir Henry Wood celebrated his 50 years as a professional conductor with a concert.
Vaughan Williams composed a work for the occasion, the Serenade to Music, in which he set words by... — -
Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 20
performed from the Artaria edition published in Vienna in 1801
The London Haydn Quartet: Catherine Manson (violin), Michael Gurevich (violin), James Boyd (viola) & Richard Lester (cello)
this recording maintains their historically informed, period instrument approach. Once again, preparation has been meticulous...The almost vibrato-less playing is immaculate in intonation and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2011, Editor's Choice
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Sacred Vocal Music of Claudio Monteverdi
RecommendedEmma Kirkby (soprano), Ian Partridge (tenor) & David Thomas (bass)
Parley of Instruments, Roy Goodman, Peter Holman
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Parry: I was glad & other choral works
Daniel Cook (organ), Jonathan Brown (bass), Alexander Kyle (treble), David Martin (countertenor), Mark Dobell (tenor), Robert Macdonald (bass)
Westminster Abbey Choir, Onyx Brass, James O'Donnell
O'Donnell's performance of I was glad is hugely expansive and majestic...I'm not sure there isn't an element of overkill...Still, it's difficult to resist the spine-tingling monumentalism of... —
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The suite is not only Nielsen's greatest keyboard work but arguably the mightiest ever written in Scandinavia. Martin Roscoe is right inside this music and guides us through its marvels with... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2008, Instrumental Choice
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The First Piano Quartet reveals Fauré's debt to an earlier generation of composers, particularly Mendelssohn.
Yet already it has the refined sensuality, the elegance and the craftsmanship which... —Awards:
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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