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Browse: Simon Callow (narrator)

This page lists all recordings performed by Simon Callow.

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  • Elgar: The Longed-for Light

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    Elgar's Music in Wartime

    Simon Callow (speaker), Simon Callow (speaker) & Susan Gritton (soprano)

    BBC Concert Orchestra, John Wilson

    Here's a supremely enjoyable Elgar survey centred around a clutch of works composed during the Great War...Throughout, the BBC Concerto Orchestra respond with bright-eyed conviction and commendable... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2013 More…
    • Release Date: 12th Nov 2012
    • Catalogue No: SOMMCD247
    • Label: Somm
    • Length: 75 minutes

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  • Martinů: The Epic of Gilgamesh

    Martinů: The Epic of Gilgamesh

    Lucy Crowe (soprano), Andrew Staples (tenor), Derek Welton (bass-baritone), Jan Martiník (bass), Simon Callow (narrator)

    Czech Philharmonic Prague, Philharmonic Choir Vasilek, Manfred Honeck

    All life is here in compressed mastery. Idiomatically conducted by Manfred Honeck and vividly recorded live in Prague’s Rudolfinum, this is the definitive performance of a 20th-century choral... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…
    • Release Date: 20th Oct 2017
    • Catalogue No: SU42252
    • Label: Supraphon
    • Length: 51 minutes

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  • Elgar: The Starlight Express

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    Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone) & Simon Callow (narrator)

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis

    While the lyrics tend to the arch or winsome, most of the music is vintage light Elgar, and beautifully performed...This is a very valuable addition to the Elgar discography. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…
    • Release Date: 29th Oct 2012
    • Catalogue No: CHSA5111(2)
    • Label: Chandos
    • Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

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  • Sword in the Soul

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    Grier - Elgar - Bednall - Park

    London Choral Sinfonia, James Orford, Brian O'Kane, Samantha Bond (narrator), Simon Callow (narrator), Adrian Peacock (narrator), Samuel Pantcheff, Alison Ponsford-Hill, Michael Waldron

    this modern-day Passion is powerful, and crying out for regular performance...Grier’s Brittenish ear for melodies that sound inevitable even when they are far from it, his elegant astringency... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2023 More…
    • Release Date: 7th Apr 2023
    • Catalogue No: ORC100223
    • Label: Orchid Classics
    • Length: 75 minutes

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  • Arthur Sullivan: Macbeth, The Tempest & Marmion Overture

    Arthur Sullivan: Macbeth, The Tempest & Marmion Overture

    Mary Bevan (soprano), Fflur Wyn (soprano), Simon Callow (speaker)

    BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Singers, John Andrews

    The BBC Concert Orchestra play with warmth and style, the BBC Singers go at it with spirit and Mary Bevan makes an enchanting Ariel. John Andrews does an excellent job of integrating the orchestra... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2016 More…
    • Release Date: 15th Jul 2016
    • Catalogue No: 2CDLX7331
    • Label: Dutton
    • Series: Epoch

    2 SACDs

    $21.50

    Format: Hybrid Multi-channel

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  • Alan Rawsthorne - Practical Cats

    Alan Rawsthorne - Practical Cats

    narrated by Simon Callow, Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone)

    Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones

    Baritone Jeremy Huw Williams is his usual reliable self in the Diptych, and everything is expertly paced and balanced, crisply played and brightly recorded. — BBC Music Magazine, Proms 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…
    • Release Date: 11th Feb 2008
    • Catalogue No: CDLX7203
    • Label: Dutton
    • Length: 72 minutes

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  • José Serebrier: Symphony No. 1

    José Serebrier: Symphony No. 1

    Gary Karr (double bass), David Daly (jazz bass), Matt King, Sacha Johnson (percussion), Duncan Riddell (violin), Ellen Marsden (cor anglais) & Simon Callow (narrator), Philippe Quint (violin)

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, José Serebrier

    Serebrier gets back to his roots in a couple of agreeable tangos but the First Symphony is a fascinating document from a teenage composer. — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2010 More…
    • Release Date: 26th Jul 2010
    • Catalogue No: 8559648
    • Label: Naxos
    • Series: American Classics
    • Length: 71 minutes

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  • Another Night Before Christmas and Scrooge

    Another Night Before Christmas and Scrooge

    Simon Callow (narrator)

    RTÉ Concert Orchestra & Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Gavin Sutherland

    Bryan Kelly’s Dickens distillation Scrooge, exuberantly narrated by Simon Callow, is one of the main items here, alongside Philip Lane’s Old Christmas Music, Matthew Curtis’s Christmas Rush and... — The Telegraph, 9th December 2011 More…
    • Release Date: 31st Oct 2011
    • Catalogue No: 8572744
    • Label: Naxos
    • Length: 78 minutes

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  • Gough, O: The World Encompassed

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    Simon Callow (narrator)

    Fretwork

    Narrator Simon Callow is terrific, Fretwork mesmerising — BBC Music Magazine, September 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…
    • Release Date: 2nd Jun 2017
    • Catalogue No: SIGCD453
    • Label: Signum
    • Length: 82 minutes

    2 CDs

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  • Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 & Symphony No. 3

    Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 & Symphony No. 3

    Vadim Repin (violin), Simon Callow (narrator)

    London Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Lazarev

    [Violin Concerto] Repin has a superb sense of line and a wonderful cantabile. Tensile and lyrical, his playing is mesmeric. The LPO are also on form, the Scherzo stunning in every respect. A... — Classical Music, September 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…
    • Release Date: 27th Jul 2018
    • Catalogue No: LPO0107
    • Label: LPO
    • Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

    2 CDs

    $16.75

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