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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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Sullivan: The Light of the World
Natalya Romaniw, Eleanor Dennis, Kitty Whately, Robert Murray, Ben McAteer, Neal Davies; Kinder Children's Choir, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Concert Orchestra, John Andrews
This performance is close to ideal. All the soloists make their mark, and conductor John Andrews does an excellent job, bringing constant motion to the score and drawing refined playing from... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2019, Choral & Song Choice
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
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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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Widor: Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 1 & La Nuit de Walpurgis
World premiere recordings
Sergey Levitin (violin)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates
This valuable new release, the third volume in Martin Yates's Widor series, shows exactly why the Goethe-inspired score enjoyed success during the composer's lifetime…it is an orchestral tour... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, 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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Handel: Messiah
RecommendedDame Isobel Baillie, Gladys Ripley, James Johnston, Norman Walker
Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Huddersfield Choral Society, Sir Malcolm Sargent
From the 1940s until the early 1960s one of the greatest of regular British musical events (every bit as important as the Proms) was Malcolm Sargent's Messiah. He conducted it up and down the... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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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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