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Vaughan Williams: 49th Parallel
RecommendedThe complete music written for the film
BBC Concert Orchestra, Martin Yates
This recording presents a magnificent opportunity to hear for the first time an 81-minute orchestral score by Vaughan Williams in good sound. Not to be missed. — More…
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Record Review, 24th June 2023, Record of the Week
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Vaughan Williams - The Future, The Steersman, Fantasia, Flourish for Glorious John Lucy Crowe (soprano), Jacques Imbrailo (baritone), Andrew von Oeyen (piano), BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martin Yates
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Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic – complete score
Ilona Domnich (soprano), Christopher Nickol (organ), Women of the Scottish National Orchestra Chorus (chorus)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates
Yates conducts with appropriate majesty, his slow tempos very close to Ernest Irvin’s in the film. The RSNO and chorus are in powerful form, and Ilona Domnich contributes a strikingly eerie... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Orchestral Choice
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Ralph Vaughan Williams: Early and Late Works
Guy Johnston (cello)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates
The stand-out music...comes in Dark Pastoral. This is David Matthews's wonderfully skilled and imaginative, yet always-in-style completion of the slow movement of an unfinished cello concerto...Johnston's... — More…
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Boughton: The Queen of Cornwall
A music-drama based on the play by Thomas Hardy
Heather Shipp (Queen Iseult), Joan Rodgers (Iseult of Brittany, the Whitehanded), Jacques Imbrailo (Sir Tristram), Patricia Orr (Brangwain), Neal Davies (King Mark), Peter Wilman (Sir Andret), Elizabeth Weisberg (Damsel)
New London Orchestra, Members of The London Chorus, Ronald Corp
If you can ignore the words, the writing for both voices and orchestra has a surging confidence that's very appealing, and the musical substance grows on one with repeated hearings. In a strong... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2011, Editor's Choice
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Opera, March 2011, Recording of the Month
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This is the first CD devoted to [Collins's] own highly enjoyable music...His most famous piece of all is the disarmingly simple Vanity Fair. First performed in 1952, this is the composition... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Havergal Brian: Faust
Peter Hoare, (Faust), David Soar (Mephistopheles), Allison Cook (Gretchen), William Morgan (Raphael), Robert Hayward (Gabriel), Elgan Llyr Thomas (Michael), Simon Bailey (Der Herr [God], Bösergeist [Evil Spirit]), David Ireland (Erdgeist [Earth Spirit]), Katie Coventry (Schüler [Student]), Nicholas...
The opera is a remarkable achievement...The central roles are all well done. Tenor Peter Hoare summons up the entire range and expressive variety required for Faust. David Soar’s voluminous... — More…
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Vaughan Williams: The Blue Bird, Norfolk Rhapsodies & Music for an EFDS Masque
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates
Yates and the RSNO are admirably chipper exponents…Yates’s idiomatic orchestration of the composer’s handwritten piano score [for The Blue Bird] falls most agreeably on the ear…In summary, a... — More…
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Martin Yates conducts Bate, Arnell & Chisholm
Recorded: Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow, 17-18 September 2009
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates
Martin Yates and the RSNO seem understandably swept away with the gripping music, and excellent sound helps makes this very much one of the most impressive Dutton discs to have come my way — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2010, Editor's Choice
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