Itter Broadcast Collection
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Special offer. Bantock: Omar Khayyám
RecommendedSarah Walker (contralto), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) & Brian Raynor Cook (baritone), Johanna Peters (contralto)
BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Norman Del Mar
This 1979 revival…is complete, and much livelier [than Handley’s performance] with equally fine soloists…it’s well coupled with other less rare Bantock, especially Fifine at the Fair, based... —
Awards:
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Special offer. Vaughan Williams: Sir John in Love
Heddle Nash (Shallow), Parry Jones (Sir Hugh Evans), Gerald Davies (Slender), Andrew Gold (Peter Simple), Denis Dowling (Page), Roderick Jones (Sir John Falstaff), John Kentish (Bardolph), Denis Catlin (Nym), Forbes Robinson (Pistol), April Cantelo (Anne Page), Laelia Finneberg (Mrs Page), Marion...
Conducted with nonchalant skill by Stanford Robinson, the playing and singing are nearly flawless, with one singer after another happily showing how to rise to an opportunity while not hogging... —
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Special offer. British Violin & Cello Concertos
André Gertler (violin), Derek Collier (violin), Alfredo Campoli (violin), Gregor Piatigorsky (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Northern Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Stanford Robinson, Rudolf Schwartz
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Special offer. 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 —
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Searle: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 5, Zodiac Variations & Labyrinth
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, Orchestra Nova of London, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, John Pritchard, Lawrence Leonard, Lawrence Foster, Louis Frémaux
[Labyrinth] is conveyed on the wings of some magnificent orchestration, the musical language unforgivingly atonal through the tone poetry achieved is extremely imposing…performance values are... —
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Cyril Rootham: Symphony No. 2 & Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity
Teresa Cahill (soprano), Philip Langridge (tenor) & Michael Rippon (bass-baritone)
Scottish Philharmonic Singers & BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Trinity Boys Choir, BBC Singers & BBC Concert Orchestra, Vernon Handley
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Special offer. Tate, P: The Lodger
Owen Brannigan (George Bunting), Johanna Peters (Emma, his wife), Marion Studholme (Daisy, their daughter), Joseph Ward (The Lodger), Alexander Young (Joe Chandler, a young detective), John Thornley (A paper-boy), Ranken Bushby (A policeman), Trevor Anthony (A cockney), Rachel Paine (A cockney Woman),...
Tate’s firmly-structured score employs a lyrical, natural arioso, intensifying into more formal arias, duets and ensembles at emotional touch-points. Her style is darkly tonal, in the manner... —
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Special offer. A. Butterworth: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 & 4
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra, Arthur Butterworth, Christopher Adey, Bryden Thomson
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Special offer. 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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Special offer. Anthony Milner: The Song of Akhenaten & The Water and the Fire
Janet Price (soprano), Hazel Holt (soprano), John Elwes (tenor) & Stephen Roberts (baritone)
BBC Training Orchestra, BBC Northern Singers, Manchester Grammar School Boys Choir & BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra, Meredith Davies
