Marcus Farnsworth
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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 5 & Scenes adapted from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress
Kitty Whately (mezzo-soprano), Christopher Bowen (tenor), Tom Raskin (tenor), Andrew Rupp (bass), Jamie W Hall (bass), Marcus Farnsworth (baritone), Georgina Wheatley (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, Martyn Brabbins
Brabbins and his musicians generally give a glowing and contemplative account of the Fifth Symphony (1943), its colours well captured in producer Andrew Keener’s fine recording. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Bernstein: Candide
RecommendedLeonardo Capalbo (Candide), Jane Archibald (Cunegonde), Anne Sofie von Otter (Old Lady), Thomas Allen (Dr Pangloss/Narrator)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Marin Alsop
In the title role, Leonardo Capalbo offers charm, delicacy and a touch of melancholy. Jane Archibald makes an amiable Cunegonde, though her showpiece ‘Glitter and be gay’ doesn’t sparkle enough.... — More…
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Record Review, 9th October 2021, Record of the Week
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th October 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Opera
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Sir Colin Davis’s set with the London Symphony Orchestra is very fine as you might expect… There are plenty of excellent sounds to be experienced here. — More…
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Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
Marcus Farnsworth (baritone), Elizabeth Llewellyn (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra & BBC Symphony Chorus, Martyn Brabbins
The BBC Symphony Orchestra makes its own vividly virtuosic contribution, not least in the scherzo movement, ‘The waves’; credit is due also to Martyn Brabbins, in expert control of the work’s... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2018, Editor's Choice
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There’s no recording yet of his 2017 opera The Girl of the Golden West (you can blame the industry’s economics), but every other milestone since the mid-1980s is here in performances that continue... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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Nielsen: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3
Lucy Hall (soprano), Marcus Farnsworth (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
Davis approaches both works with driving energy...this recording is an exhilarating display of the life-force at full blast in both composer and conductor. — More…
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