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Toivo Kuula: Songs and Orchestral Music
World Premiere Recordings (in these versions)
Susan Gritton (soprano)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Susan Gritton's performance is operatically charged, and very effective, as is her involving account of the 12-minute song-story Impi Ja Pajarin Poika...[Hiidet Virvoja Viritti] has a dash of... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2012, Editor's Choice
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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 (new edition)
and works by Christopher Wright
Fenella Humphreys (violin), Christopher Watson (tenor)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Martin Yates
Wright's idiom - both listener-friendly and superbly skilled, with never a wasted note - has no problems sustaining a 35-minute design. Violinist Fenella Humphreys responds to its elegiac reflection... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, Orchestral Choice
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Davies, Walford: Everyman
Elena Ferrari (soprano), Jennifer Johnston (contralto), Andrew Staples (tenor) & Pauls Putnins (bass)
London Oriana Choir & Kensington Symphony Orchestra, David Drummond
Henry Walford Davies's splendid oratorio was written and first heard in 1904, in the shadow of Elgar's Gerontius. Yet it was an immediate success and widely performed. But by the end of the First... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2005, Editor's Choice
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Elgar: Piano Concerto etc.
David Owen Norris (piano)
BBC Concert Orchestra & BBC Singers, David Lloyd-Jones
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2005, Editor's Choice
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Kathleen Long plays Mozart
RecommendedKathleen Long (piano)
National Symphony Orchestra, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Boyd Neel, Eduard van Beinum
A richly experienced chamber musician, Kathleen Long (1896-1968) was partnered and praised by Casals, played Ravel's 'Ondine' to the composer and gave over 60 National Gallery concerts during... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Arne: The Judgment of Paris
Mary Bevan (Venus), Susanna Fairbairn (Pallas), Gillian Ramm (Juno), Ed Lyon (Paris), Anthony Gregory (Mercury), Andrew Mahon (bass)
The Brook Street Band, John Andrews
Expert in British esoterica, John Andrews secures generally cheerful and passionate performances from his cast and The Brook Street Band that certainly tickle the ear. But this is a curio, not... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2019
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Weill: The Threepenny Opera
Original Cast Recording 1976
Jonathan Peachum (C K Alexander), Samuel (Peachum’s Assistant) (Tony Azito), The Ballad Singer (Roy Brocksmith), Lucy Brown (Blair Brown), Matt (Ralph Drischell), Jake (William Duell), Jenny Towler (Ellen Greene), Walt (Max Gulack), Mac the Knife (Raul Julia), Polly Peachum (Caroline Kava), Smith...
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The colourful scoring, together with some characteristic melodic and harmonic twists, go right back to the Colour Symphony of the 1920s... it’s hard to imagine a more persuasive performance,... — More…
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For me, it is in short works that Godard’s strength lies...It would be hard not be charmed by the five morceaux En plein air, where Godard’s melodic gifts and fluency are captured in heart-warming... — More…
