Hyperion
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Plowright is used to handling weightier tomes, having recently released the fifth instalment of his ongoing Brahms solo works series (also Hyperion), but he is a master of melodies. —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2018, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2014, Editor's Choice
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Finley has the measure of his hero from ‘Halt’, the third song in the cycle. His bright heroic tone, the febrile sense of excitement as he follows the brook to the mill hints at the mind that... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Vocal Music
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The Songs of Robert Schumann - Volume 6
Geraldine McGreevy (soprano), Stella Doufexis (alto), Adrian Thompson (tenor), Stepan Loges (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
This disc is a delight from start to finish. Songs and interpretations are on a high level of achievement, in this case all the more welcome as these groups, for various reasons, don't figure... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2002, Editor's Choice
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Hough's sensitive performances of Schubert's deceptively plain-speaking late sonatas bring out their Classical grace and structural rigour. —
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Handel - Chandos Anthems Nos. 7, 9 & 11
Emma Kirkby (soprano), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), James Gilchrist (tenor), Neal Davies (bass)
Trinity College Choir Cambridge & Academy of Ancient Music, Stephen Layton
Layton never over-inflates the music but rather invigorates it through carefully detonated points of detail: the explosive choral entry which cuts the polite bluster introducing 'Let God Arise'... —
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As one expects from Cardinall's Musick, their interpretations are energetic, resourceful and varied, ranging from dramatic story telling in Videns Dominus to exquisite liquidity in the long... —
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The Romantic Violin Concerto 16 - Busoni & Strauss
RecommendedTanja Becker-Bender (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Garry Walker
Becker-Bender plays with enthusiasm and accuracy, and when she finally hits a whimsical melody about six minutes in[to the Busoni], it's charming and skittish...There's plenty of virtuosic solo... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st July 2014
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The Romantic Violin Concerto 5 - Coleridge-Taylor & Somervell
RecommendedAnthony Marwood (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
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Building a Library, June 2017, Also Recommended
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