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Rubbra: Violin Concerto & Sinfonia Concertante
Edmund Rubbra (piano), Endré Wolf (violin)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Hugo Rignold, Rudolf Schwarz
What a treat to encounter Rubbra’s glorious Violin Concerto played by the work’s Budapest dedicatee Endre Wolf…A memorably unforced display it proves, too, plumbing genuine depths of rapt expression... —
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Robert Simpson: Symphony Nos. 5 & 6
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Groves
The 1973 performance of the Fifth, with a young Andrew Davis conducting the London Symphony Orchestra on top form, is a tour de force. Despite a few intrusive coughs, both the energy and the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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If Raymond Leppard's account of the Fifth operates at a slightly lower voltage, his cannily paced, sensitive and meticulously prepared reading none the less remains a most distinguished contribution... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2008, Re-issue of the Month
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truly worth hearing for Fenella Humphreys's violin playing in its own right, which offers an exceptional blend of engaging personality, bombproof tuning, and sophisticated tonal loveliness without... —
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The music is well argued and abounds in melody, such as the Rimsky-Korsakov like melody early in Symphony No. 1, and with something of that master’s ear for orchestration… the fifth and sixth... —
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Jones is an original voice whose music deserves the attention being belatedly granted it by this series of releases. —
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Boult conducts Ireland
Eric Parkin (piano) & John Carol Case (baritone)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & London Philharmonic Choir, Sir Adrian Boult
it is well sung and played and a good deal of the impact of the writing comes through. The music itself is melodic, spacious in phrase and reaily enjoyable at its face value. The performance... —
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Bax - Symphony No. 6
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & New Philharmonia Orchestra, Norman Del Mar & Vernon Handley
Here's yet another valuable reissue from Lyrita's vaults. Norman Del Mar's pioneering 1966 account of Bax's Sixth Symphony has held up extremely well. Occupying an interpretative middle ground... —
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Peter Racine Fricker: The Vision Of Judgement & Symphony No. 5
Jane Manning (soprano) & Robert Tear (tenor), Gillian Weir (organ)
Leeds Festival Chorus & Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Charles Groves, Colin Davis
There’s a truly impressive work in here, capable of exciting grand gestures, but most personal in the sensitive elegiac sections – the a cappella ‘Libera me’ is a highlight —
