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Special offer. Hurd: Choral Music Vol. 2 & Complete Solo Songs
Herefordshire Chorus, Marta Fontanals-Simmons, Sarah Mapplebeck, Simon Lepper, Marcus Farnsworth, Benjamin Hulett
David Temple
Mezzo-soprano Marta Fontanals-Simmons shines in The Phoenix and the Turtle…Needless to report, the indefatigable David Temple secures splendidly alert results from his Hertfordshire Chorus and... —
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Special offer. Thea Musgrave: The Voices of Our Ancestors
The New York Virtuoso Songers, Harold Rosenbaum
The exultant, dramatic Rorate Coeli from 1973...is by far the best showcase for Harold Rosenbaum’s bold and fearless New York Virtuoso Singers, singing lustily and unaccompanied, but elsewhere... —
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Sir Arthur Bliss: The Beatitudes
Promenade Premiere, Albert Hall, London. BBC Broadcast 31 August 1964
Heather Harper (soprano) & Gerald English (tenor)
Goldsmiths Choral Union, Royal Choral Society, Wembley Philharmonic Society, BBC Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Arthur Bliss
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Mathias: Concertos
Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), Osian Ellis (harp), Peter Katin (piano)
New Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, David Atherton
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Lennox Berkeley's rather discursive idiom is heard at its pleasing best in the Six Preludes. Benjamin's range of imaginative options is much wider - as in the Etudes Improvisées, brilliantly... —
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Special offer. Bernard Rands: Concerto for Piano & Orchestra, Music for Shoko: Aubade & Canti del Sole
Jonathan Biss (piano), Stephen Chaundy (tenor), Robert Walters (cor anglais), Stephen Rose and Jeffrey Zehngut (violins), Joanna Patterson Zakany (viola), Charles Bernard (cello)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Markus Stenz, William Boughton
At its best, this collection offers well-crafted, ingenious, colourful music, none of it deserving oblivion. —
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George Lloyd: A Litany and A Symphonic Mass
Jeremy White (bass), Janice Watson (soprano), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Brighton Festival Chorus, Guildford Choral Society, Philharmonia Orchestra, George Lloyd
It’s hard to imagine that the music could be better served than by this impassioned performance under the composer’s direction… Anyone who likes the music of George Lloyd should hear these fine... —
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Daniel Jones: Symphonies Nos. 12, 13 & Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life
Maldwyn Davies (tenor), BBC Welsh Chorus and Orchestra, Bryden Thomson, Tecwyn Evans, Charles Groves
Both works make their points concisely yet evocatively, as conducted by Bryden Thomson and Tecwyn Evans. His cantata on texts by George Herbert, though, seems a shadow of more deftly composed... —
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Eleanor Alberga: Violin Concertos Nos.1 & 2
Thomas Bowes (violin), Morgan Pearse (baritone), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Joseph Swensen
The latest and most beguiling work, from 2020, is the violin concerto (No. 2), inspired by the Greek myth of Narcissus…The gifted violinist, Thomas Bowes (also Alberga’s husband), weaves his... —
