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Walton: Symphony No. 1 & Violin Concerto RecommendedTasmin Little (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Little's way with the virtuoso passages is a notch less headlong than [on her earlier recording], allowing the ear to savour her phenomenal accuracy, yet with no loss of fire...Gardner and the... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st April 2014
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2014, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2014, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2014
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Building A Library, July 2022, Also Recommended
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Walton: Symphony No. 2 & Cello Concerto RecommendedPaul Watkins (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
If a new Walton release can finally put paid to the notion that his music somehow 'went off' after his move to the Italian island of Ischia in 1956, then this must be it. And the performances... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2015, First Choice
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Walton: Viola Concerto, Partita for Orchestra & Sonata for String Orchestra RecommendedJames Ehnes (viola)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Ehnes, long established as one of the world’s leading violinists, doesn’t offer the same hefty, almost cello-like weight of tone on the viola as some of his specialist colleagues. Then again,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2018, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 28th April 2018, Recording of the Week
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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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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…Tatjana Masurenko… reading of Walton's masterpiece combines impressive technical acumen and no mean interpretative flair. The NDR Radiophilharmonie, too, respond with polish and keen vigour... — More…
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Beethoven: String Quartet No. 16 & Walton: Serenade for Strings
Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson
Arrangements for string orchestra of works originally written for string quartet are not uncommon, especially in the cases of Beethoven and Schubert… But in the amazing scherzo, with its huge... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2006, Disc of the Month
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Walton & Hindemith: Cello Concertos Christian Poltéra (cello)
São Paulo Symphony Orchestra (OSESP), Frank Shipway
there is much to admire in Poltera's immense technical command and forthright technical command and forthright expressiveness, although finessed light and shade...are sometimes in rather short... — More…
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Sir Colin Davis Anthology
Limited Edition of 5000
Ben Heppner (Enée), Michelle DeYoung (Didon), Petra Lang (Cassandre), Sara Mingardo (Anna), Peter Mattei (Chorèbe), Stephen Milling (Narbal), Kenneth Tarver (Iopas), Toby Spence (Hylas), Alan Ewing (Priam)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
despite the film’s scrappy construction music and man emerge loud and clear. A “reluctant king” is Sir David Attenborough’s description. His baton, Mitsuko Uchida, the pianist, crisply says,... — More…
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Heupel’s interpretation of [Penderecki’s Per Slava] is especially convincing, laying bare the music’s fissured surfaces while maintaining its overall formal shape…He also manages to capture the... — More…
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Walton: Christopher Columbus: A Musical Journey and Hamlet and Ophelia
Julian Glover, Jamie Glover (speakers), Caroline Carragher (soprano), Jean Rigby (mezzo-soprano), Tom Randle (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone), Craig Ogden (guitar)
BBC National Chorus of Wales, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox
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