Hyperion
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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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Howard always seems to know where the music is going, and why —
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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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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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Of particular interest here is the large-scale Violin Concerto No. 1… Alina Ibragimova delivers a highly persuasive interpretation, her meltingly lovely tone especially effective in encapsulating... —
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 31 - Fuchs & Kiel
Martin Roscoe (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
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Wolf, H: Gedichte von Eduard Mörike
RecommendedJoan Rodgers (soprano), Stephan Genz (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)
As a complete survey of the Mörike Lieder this sweeps the field. Inspired by the sentient and, where required, virtuoso playing of Roger Vignoles, Joan Rodgers (especially memorable in the... —
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Building a Library, November 2010, First Choice
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Songs by Armstrong Gibbs
Geraldine McGreevy (soprano), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2003, Editor's Choice
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Among the most readily and revealingly appealing issues of Howard's stupendous enterprise. Enthusiastically recommended —
