Britten - Two Portraits
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Orchestral
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Edward Gardner conducts Britten
Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Maxim Rysanov (viola)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
The Charm is a total winner, wrapped by Matthews in string woodwind sleep-music so familiar from the Nocturne and phrased by Connolly with alternate tenderness and edginess. Maxim Rysanov compels... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2011, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Britten - Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge
Jean-Paul Minali-Bella (arpegina)
European Camerata, Laurent Quénelle
To find a continental ensemble concentrating on Britten is something of a novelty, but this disc of string music contains performances of superb sensitivity. The Frank Bridge variations and... —
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Britten: Phaedra, A Charm of Lullabies, Lachrymae, Two Portraits & Sinfonietta
Dame Sarah Connolly, Maxim Rysanov (viola), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
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The Britten centenary can't have produced finer recorded performances than these, with wonderful dynamic shading, bombproof tuning, and real drama. —
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The Essential Benjamin Britten
Daniel Hope (violin), Nicholas Bone (viola), William Butt (cello), Carol Vaness, Jerry Hadley & Thomas Hampson, Dame Janet Baker & Lorraine Hunt, Thomas Hampson & Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Darcey Bussell & Jonathan Cope
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, American...
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