Bennett, R R - Dream-Song
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Richard Rodney Bennett: Songs Before Sleep
Sophie Daneman (soprano) & Iain Burnside (piano), Roderick Williams (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano), Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano) & Iain Burnside (piano), Benjamin Hulett (tenor) & Oliver Coates (cello)
[Bennett] creates a campy 1920s-ish idiom, well captured by the versatile Iain Burnside...Benjamin Hulett, with Oliver Coates, sings with commendably Pearsian fervour...Susan Bickley adds mezzo... —
Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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Richard Rodney Bennett: Letters to Lindbergh
Philip Moore & Andrew West (piano)
National Youth Choir of Scotland Girls Choir, Christopher Bell
The Scottish girls are excellently prepared...keeping diction clean and crisp without impeding the heady forward momentum. They're alive, too, to the wit and wiliness of Martin Hall's lyrics,... —
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Berger's grainy baritone is pleasing more than awe-inspiring...But he communicates with keen enthusiasm, and his word-lively Mozart Abendempfindung immediately draws the listener in to this... —
