SACD, Vaughan Williams (composer)
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Imaginative, sensitive programming has been a constant feature of Ruby Hughes’s collaborations; and this latest with the perennially adventurous Manchester Collective is no exception...A disc... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, Choral & Song Choice
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Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia Antartica, Concerto for Two Pianos & Four Last Songs
RecommendedMari Eriksmoen (soprano), Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier (pianos), Roderick Williams (baritone)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
Either [Lortie] or Hélène Mercier could probably polish off the original [Concerto] by themselves, but their partnership develops its intensity without strain, particularly attractive in rich... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th September 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Diapason d’Or, December 2017, Nouveauté
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Newby, who turns 30 this year, has the kind of powerful natural presence that also belongs to Bryn Terfel, and the timbre of his voice has come to resemble Terfel’s in its plummy warmth and... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Vocal Music
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The Contrast RecommendedEnglish Poetry in Song
Carolyn Sampson (piano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Huw Watkins’s Larkin settings are the main reason to invest in this recital — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Sounds and Sweet Airs - A Shakespeare Songbook Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Sampson’s vocal security throughout the registers, clear diction, and patrician phrasing all testify to a complete artist. And Sampson proves every bit as much at home in the modernist works... — More…
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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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Music for a Time of War
Jeffrey Work (trumpet), Sanford Sylvan (baritone), Jun Iawsaki (violin)
Oregon Symphony, Carlos Kalmar
Music for a Time of War is a compelling and inspired example of intelligent programme planning, and it’s extremely well played by the Oregon Symphony conducted by Carlos Kalmar… The live recorded... — More…
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Arcadia Lost: Music of Vaughan Williams & Britten
Michael Dauth (violin), Roger Benedict (viola), Steve Davislim (tenor) & Benjamin Martin (piano)
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Cantillation, Hamer Quartet, Mark Wigglesworth
A concept album which may or may not suit the dedicated collector but is certainly worth trying...Performance-wise [Sinfonia da Requiem] is arguably the highlight of the disc...[On Wenlock Edge]... — More…
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Walton: Façade, Britten: Suite on English Folk Tunes & Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves/Berkeley: Guitar Concerto
Tony Randall (narrator), Columbia Chamber Ensemble, Arthur Fiedler, New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, Juliam Bream (guitar), Monteverdi Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
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Nisbeth’s tone isn’t especially lush or velvety but it’s endlessly nuanced, and Forsberg, too, commands an enormously subtle tonal palette…Fresh, thoughtful perspectives on some ravishing –... — More…
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