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British Music Collection - Britten & Walton RecommendedPeter Pears (tenor), Dennis Brain (horn), Edith Sitwell (narrator)
Boyd Neel String Orchestra, English Opera Group Ensemble, Benjamin Britten, Anthony Collins
This disc includes one of the great highlights of the whole Britten discography, that first magical recording of the Serenade, with Pears in fresh, youthful voice and Dennis Brain's marvellous... — More…
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Building a Library, November 1999, Historic Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Shibe brings a lively charisma and a vibrant array of musical colour to the album, conjuring everything from 17th-century lute to Arabic oud across this wide-reaching programme. Sulayman’s performance... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th May 2023
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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The English Song Series Volume 22 - Benjamin Britten
Roderick Williams (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano)
Williams brings a gentler, more intimate touch to what Fischer-Dieskau called their 'enigmatic smile': Blake's Tyger burns bright but with less fierce teeth, and there is more melancholy than... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2012, Editor's Choice
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[Bostridge] has surely done nothing finer than this immaculately recorded new release. He is superbly partnered by Antonio Pappano, whose balancing of textures and beauty of touch sometimes... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th April 2013
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2013, Editor's Choice
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Britten: Works for voice & string orchestra
Barbara Hannigan (soprano), James Gilchrist (tenor) & Jasper de Waal (horn)
Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson (artistic director)
Hannigan brings a fined-down intensity to the more hushed Rimbaud settings such as 'Being Beauteous', but elsewhere her tone tends to flutter under pressure...Gilchrist, by contrast, sounds... — More…
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A Lad's Love
RecommendedBrian Giebler, Steven McGhee, Katie Hyun, Ben Russell, Jessica Meyer, Michael Katz, Reginald Mobley
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Very Best of English Song
RecommendedDame Janet Baker (mezzo), Gerald Moore (piano), Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Geoffrey Parsons (piano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), David Willison (piano), Ian Partridge (tenor), Janet Craxton (piano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone), Roger Vignoles...
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also recommended
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Building a Library, January 2021, Recommended orchestral version (Songs of Travel)
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My True Love Hath My Heart: English Songs
Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano) & Malcolm Martineau (piano)
They create a sense of isolation within the sadness of King David; they capture Ireland's responses to the poetry of Hardy, Sidney and Symons with total commitment; and they respond with sentience... — More…
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