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“Jacqueline du Pré’s unsurpassed recording of the [Elgar] Concerto hardly needs any further recommendation from us, spontaneous in its freely rhapsodic style but with a very special kind of meditative feeling. A concerto that should be in every collection.” Penguin Guide | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | The Very Best of Janet Baker
Bach, J S: | Christmas Oratorio, BWV248: Bereite dich, Zion Academy of St Martin-In-The-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner | Brahms: | Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53 Sir Adrian Boult, London Philharmonic Orchestra Geistliches Wiegenlied, Op. 91 No. 2 Cecil Aronowitz (viola), André Previn | Britten: | Corpus Christi Carol Gerald Moore (piano) | Duparc: | L'Invitation au voyage London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn | Duruflé: | Requiem, Op. 9: Pie Jesu Choir of King's College Cambridge, Sir Philip Ledger | Elgar: | Sea Pictures, Op. 37 London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli Softly and gently, dearly-ransomed soul 'Angel's Farewell' (from The Dream of Gerontius) Sir John Barbirolli | Fauré: | Two Songs, Op. 83 Gerald Moore (piano) Clair de Lune, Op. 46 No. 2 Gerald Moore (piano) | Handel: | Messiah: He was despised English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras | Mahler: | Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Rückert-Lieder) Hallé Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli | Mendelssohn: | Elijah: O rest in the Lord New Philharmonia, Rafael Frühbeck De Burgos Auf Flügeln des Gesanges, Op. 34 No. 2 Geoffrey Parsons (piano) | Schubert: | Ave Maria, D839 Gerald Moore (piano) Gretchen am Spinnrade, D118 Gerald Moore (piano) Wiegenlied, D498 Gerald Moore (piano) Die Forelle, D550 Geoffrey Parsons (piano) Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D774 Geoffrey Parsons (piano) An die Musik D547 Geoffrey Parsons (piano) An Sylvia, D891 Geoffrey Parsons (piano) Nacht und Träume, D827 Geoffrey Parsons (piano) Heidenröslein, D257 Geoffrey Parsons (piano) Du bist die Ruh D776 (Rückert) Geoffrey Parsons (piano) | Schumann: | Mondnacht (No. 5 from Liederkreis, Op. 39) Daniel Barenboim (piano) Du Ring an meinem Finger (No. 4 from Frauenliebe und Leben, Op. 42) Daniel Barenboim (piano) | Strauss, R: | Befreit, Op. 39 No. 4 Gerald Moore (piano) Morgen, Op. 27 No. 4 Gerald Moore (piano) | Vaughan Williams: | Linden Lea Gerald Moore (piano) | Warlock: | Pretty Ring Time Gerald Moore (piano) |
Compelling for her intensity and integrity as much as for her unmistakeable voice, Dame Janet Baker struck a distinctive path as a performer, primarily on the concert and recital stage. Among her most celebrated recordings are her interpretations of Elgar with Sir John Barbirolli, here complemented by songs and oratorio arias by composers such as Bach, Handel, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Mahler, Strauss, Fauré, Vaughan Williams and Britten. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Handley conducts ElgarVital broadcast recordings from Capital Radio, 1984
This release is a tribute to Vernon Handley's long and valued association with the London Philharmonic Orchestra extending back over 45 years. A very special relationship exists with the music of Edward Elgar as the London Philharmonic Orchestra is often referred to as ‘Elgar’s Orchestra’. The LPO also had a special association with Vernon Handley and this release in a small way acknowledges Handley's contribution to the Orchestra's life. It marks the first re-issue onto a single disc of the acclaimed recording of Dame Janet Baker's Sea Pictures from a concert recorded by Capital Radio in 1984 and a landmark premiere release from the same concert of Elgar's Symphony No.1. When the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Elgar Society were planning a concert to mark the 50th anniversary of Elgar’s death, Vernon Handley was the natural choice of conductor. Handley’s feeling for English music was second to none, and his rapport with Elgar’s music in particular is clear in these performances recorded live at the anniversary concert. Sea Pictures evokes contrasting images of the sea from ve poems sung here by Dame Janet Baker, a peerless interpreter of the work. Elgar’s first Symphony is one of Elgar’s finest works for orchestra – hailed after its première as ‘the greatest symphony of modern times’. Here in this recording Handley conducts a wonderfully paced reading of the Symphony and the LPO have performed and recorded this symphony countless times, rarely with more refinement and assurance than heard here for the first time in this live recording. Includes scholarly CD notes by Elgar expert and past Chairman of the Elgar Society, Andrew Neill. “Vernon Handley's eloquent account of the First Symphony, restrained yet generously abandoned, is one to treasure. But the plum is Janet Baker's Sea Pictures...Her glorious, rich contralto voice, soaring and floating, is made for this music.” The Observer, 9th May 2010 “Handley’s heart, Elgar-attuned, is in the right place — as is his stick...his passionate account of this wonderful movement [the adagio] is very fine. And the work’s dramatic coda is superbly done. Janet Baker is in glorious voice in Sea Pictures.” Sunday Times, 9th May 2010 “[Baker's] account of Sea Pictures is quite glorious, more rapturously beautiful and intense even than her famous EMI recording with John Barbirolli ...[Handley] projects a fiercely uncompromising view of Elgar [in the Symphony]...making the return of the opening march to crown the finale into a deeply ambiguous triumph.” The Guardian, 20th May 2010 ***** “...there is no want of lustre in [Baker's] Sea Pictures: she is in rapturous voice, and the “live” dimension adds extra frisson. As for the First Symphony, Handley demonstrates his mastery at revealing myriad details while keeping a firm grasp of the work’s expansive architecture, and the LPO is on superlative form.” Financial Times, 26th June 2010 **** “[Handley has] a feeling for Elgar phrasing with the freedom and flexibility that can only come from long study and precise understanding. The symphony's essence is the progress of the 'great beautiful tune'...Handley never loses sight of this, letting it (or the kernel of four falling notes) emerge unemphatically but with meaning throughout.” International Record Review, July/August 2010 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Elgar - Complete Songs for voice & piano Volume 1
Elgar: | The Self-Banished (1875) Oh, soft was the song, Op. 59, No. 3 Canto Popolare (In Moonlight) Pleading, Op. 48 No. 1 There Are Seven That Pull the Thread Twilight, Op. 59 No. 1 The wind at dawn In the Dawn, Op. 41, No. 1 Speak, Music, Op. 41, No. 2 Dry those fair, those crystal eyes (H.King) Always and Everywhere (1901) Sea Pictures, Op. 37 Like to the Damask Rose Queen Mary’s Song A Song of Autumn Come, Gentle Night (C.Bingham) |
“Konrad Jarnot is mesmerising in the opening slumber, and with noble tones from pianist Reinid Mills he makes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 'Sabbath Morning at Sea' more persuasive than I've ever heard it.” BBC Music Magazine, July 2008 **** “Here's another fresh slant on Elgar's masterly Sea Pictures, this time a most persuasive first recording employing a make voice… With this exemplary diction, unflustered poise and focused tone… Konrad Jarnot forges an instinctive alliance with the admirable Reinild Mees, who accompanies with stylish understanding. Amanda Roocroft... contributes very creditably...” Gramophone Magazine, April 2008 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Elgar - Songs and Piano Music
Elgar: | Seven Lieder A War Song (Hayward), Op. 5 Is she not passing fair As I laye a-thynkynge (Ingoldsby) premiere recording Salut d'amour, Op. 12 The wind at dawn After (P.B.Marston) Op. 31, No. 1 Woodland Interlude from Caractacus Dry those fair, those crystal eyes (H.King) The Pipes of Pan Sea Pictures, Op. 37 (Elgar’s own piano version) Softly and gently, dearly-ransomed soul 'Angel's Farewell' (from The Dream of Gerontius) (Elgar’s own piano version) The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38 - Prelude (Elgar’s own piano version) Come, Gentle Night (C.Bingham) In the Dawn, Op. 41, No. 1 Speak, Music, Op. 41, No. 2 Dream Children, Op. 43 Arabian serenade Canto Popolare (In Moonlight) Pleading, Op. 48 No. 1 Twilight, Op. 59 No. 1 Fringes of the Fleet "?" (March 1918) It isnae me (S.Holmes) XTC (unpublished, to Elgar’s own words) |
David Owen Norris (piano), The Works: Amanda Pitt (soprano), Mark Wilde (tenor) & Peter Savidge (baritone) A tribute to Elgar's 150th birthday (2007), David Owen Norris and The Works perform Elgar's songs and piano solos on Elgar's own 1844 Broadwood piano, including the world-premiere of his unpublished final song XTC, set to his own words. In all, this 2-CD set presents 32 of Elgar's finest songs for voice and piano, including a number never recorded before, and premiere recordings of Elgar's piano arrangements of the theme of the Cello Concerto, and the Prelude and Angel’s Farewell from Gerontius which, like Sea Pictures (sung here in its original soprano key) and the Woodland Interlude from Caractacus, were all composed at this piano. He even wrote these titles on its soundboard, along with his signature. These piano versions clearly remained in the forefront of Elgar’s mind and reveal his bold first thoughts before they may have been revised at the suggestion of others. The piano’s construction – keys slightly narrower than on a modern piano, the black keys set lower – illuminates Elgar’s intentions. The writing suddenly makes perfect sense, which it doesn’t always on a modern Steinway. The cover art is H.A. Payne’s The Enchanted Sea, which was part of the inspiration for Sea Pictures. “A veritable treasure-trove.” BBC Radio 3 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Elgar: Sea Pictures
“ The Music Makers is one of Elgar's most poignant and troubled utterances which movingly incorporates material from some of his greatest compositions, and it can hold its head high. Simon Wright steers a commendably clear-sighted course and coaxes an idiomatic response from his Bournemouth forces. Sarah Connolly proves scarcely less raptly responsive than Baker (for Boult), singing with glorious radiance, security and richness of tone; her delivery of the final line ('And a singer who sings no more') is deeply affecting.
Connolly also steps up to the mark in the SeaPictures (which follows after too short a gap). Hers is a gripping, intelligent display, combining keen poetic and dramatic instinct with clarity of diction, all technical challenges effortlessly surmounted.
A performance to hear alongside the classic Baker recording” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Elgar: Symphony No. 2 & Sea Pictures
“A sensitive and clear performance which evokes the heyday of Sir John Barbirolli.” BBC Music Magazine, December 2005 “Handley's is the most satisfying modern version of a work which has been much recorded over the years. What Handley conveys superbly is the sense of Elgarian ebb and flow, building climaxes like a master and drawing excellent, spontaneous-sounding playing” Penguin Guide, 2011 edition | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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“Readings that satisfy with insight and excitement.” MusicWeb International “An idiomatic feel for Elgarian rubato [Symphony No. 2] ... Della Jones gives a commanding performance of the Sea Pictures” Penguin Guide | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | The Very Best of Janet Baker
Bach, J S: | Christmas Oratorio, BWV248: Bereite dich, Zion | Brahms: | Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53 Geistliches Wiegenlied, Op. 91 No. 2 | Britten: | Corpus Christi Carol | Duparc: | L'Invitation au voyage | Duruflé: | Requiem, Op. 9: Pie Jesu | Elgar: | Sea Pictures, Op. 37 Softly and gently, dearly-ransomed soul 'Angel's Farewell' (from The Dream of Gerontius) | Fauré: | Two Songs, Op. 83 Clair de Lune, Op. 46 No. 2 | Handel: | Messiah: He was despised | Mahler: | Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Rückert-Lieder) | Mendelssohn: | Elijah: O rest in the Lord Auf Flügeln des Gesanges, Op. 34 No. 2 | Schubert: | Ave Maria, D839 Gretchen am Spinnrade, D118 Wiegenlied, D498 Die Forelle, D550 Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D774 An die Musik D547 An Sylvia, D891 Nacht und Träume, D827 Heidenröslein, D257 Du bist die Ruh D776 (Rückert) | Schumann: | Mondnacht (No. 5 from Liederkreis, Op. 39) Du Ring an meinem Finger (No. 4 from Frauenliebe und Leben, Op. 42) | Strauss, R: | Befreit, Op. 39 No. 4 Morgen, Op. 27 No. 4 | Vaughan Williams: | Linden Lea | Warlock: | Pretty Ring Time |
One of this country’s finest and most popular singers, Dame Janet Baker has a special place in the hearts of music-lovers throughout the land. Since making her Covent Garden and New York debuts in 1966 she has become synonymous with a wide range of much-loved baroque and romantic repertoire. Janet Baker was made a Dame 25 years ago. Here, for the first time, EMI have gathered together some of her most memorable performances on one double CD. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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