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Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius & Sea Pictures
RecommendedStuart Skelton (tenor), Sarah Connolly (mezzo) & David Soar (bass), Sarah Connolly (mezzo)
BBC Symphony Chorus & BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
among the best Gerontius performances on record. Davis resists the temptation to make the work sound like a flabby, imitation Parsifal and the results are outstandingly convincing...[Skelton]... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Disc of the month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2015, Choral Award Winner
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Winner - Choral
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Britten: War Requiem
RecommendedHeather Harper (soprano). Philip Langridge (tenor), Martyn Hill (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (bass-baritone), Roderick Elms (organ)
London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Choristers of St Paul's Cathedral, Richard Hickox
'Drawing on a disciplined and dedicated response from his London Symphony forces, Hickox masterminds a stirring display (ideally balanced by the Couzens production team) that scales genuine... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1992, Winner - Choral
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Gramophone Awards, 1992, Winner - Engineering
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Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
RecommendedStig Andersen (Waldemar), Andreas Conrad (Klaus-Narr), Soile Isokoski (Tove), Monica Groop (Waldtaube), Ralf Lukas (Bauer) & Barbara Sukowa (Sprecher)
Philharmonia Voices, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus & The Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen
…exciting, lucid, wonderfully well-proportioned, and recorded in stunning sound the final hymn to the rising sun would lift the most morbidly lethargist out of their chair. — More…
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Building a Library, March 2017, Also Recommended
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A superb choir with a warm, clear sound does full justice to these luscious choral works and arrangements of pieces by Grieg — More…
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Holst: Orchestral Works Volume 3
Susan Gritton (soprano), with BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
the chief asset...is soprano Susan Gritton's unaffected engagement with Holst's bright-eyed and full-hearted response to Whitman. Andrew Davis conducts a warm and idiomatic account. — More…
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If some of the rubato and tempos in the Third Symphony don’t always feel natural, the sound and phrasing is always stylish. — More…
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Schoenberg: Gurre-Lieder & Roussel: Symphony No. 3
Marita Napper (Tove), Jess Thomas (Waldemar), Yvonne Minton (Waldtaube), Kenneth Bowen (Klaus), Siegmund Nimsgern (Bauer), Gunther Reich (Speaker)
BBC Singers, BBC Choral Society, Goldsmith's Choral Union, London Philharmonic Choir, BBC Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Pierre Boulez
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 14 & 21 RecommendedRonald Brautigam (fortepiano), with Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
Die Kolner Akadamie, Michael Alexander Willens
[This issue] proves every bit as immediate and lively in musical approach as its predecessors. Brautigam, bearing out his reputation as a musical and intellectual powerhouse, animates every... — More…
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Building a Library, December 2016, Also Recommended
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Im Herbst Choral works by Brahms and Schubert
Grete Pedersen, Ingrid Andsnes (piano), Kåre Nordstoga (organ), Catherine Bullock and Madelene Berg (viola), Øystein Birkeland and Ole Eirik Ree (cello) & Dan Styffe (double bass)
Det Norske Solistkor
I hadn't come across these singers before: they are quite wonderful...The luscious 'Amen', ravishingly sung, is worth the price of the disc. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2012, Editor's Choice
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Like to the Lark
Jennifer Pike (violin), Maria Forsström (mezzo-soprano)
The Swedish Chamber Choir, Simon Phipps
Listening to Simon Philipps’s immaculately accomplished Swedish Chamber Choir is rather like sinking gently into a warm bath bubbling over with your favourite scented lotions…This album combin[es]... — More…
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Record Review, 16th November 2019, Disc of the Week
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