CD, Delius (composer)
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Special offer. Vaughan Williams, Howells, Delius & Elgar - Music for Strings
RecommendedSinfonia of London, John Wilson
The sound, engineered by Ralph Couzens, is magnificent...While fully relishing the at times dreamy polyphony of Vaughan Williams’s textures, Wilson’s Fantasia has sharp, impassioned edges too,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd February 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2023, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2023, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Finalist - Orchestral
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Recording of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Winner - Orchestral
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Whether in the dreaminess of Delius’s post-Fauréan miniatures, in the relentlessness of the hard-edged Klein, in the intimacy of the Mompou or in the ironic cheek of the stylised dances by Jaques-Dalcroze,... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Solo Instrumental Recording of the Year
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Delius: American Masterworks
RecommendedHenriette Bonde-Hansen (soprano), Johan Reuter (baritone), Simon Duus (baritone)
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra Choir, Aarhus Cathedral Choir, Aarhus
Symphony Orchestra, Bo Holten
American Masterworks is imaginatively planned and well executed, and as recommendable as its predecessors. —
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Building a Library, March 2016, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2013, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Tasmin Little: The Lark Ascending
Tasmin Little (violin)
BBC Philharmonic, Sir Andrew Davis
Little's stellar playing [is] brimming with gorgeous and glitz-free tone, plus a lovely range of light and shade...Little's spacious and serene way with The Lark Ascending is both beautiful,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2014, Editor's Choice
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Firstly, the Hallé's stellar playing: it's genuinely hard to imagine how music of this English vintage could be performed better. Not only is everything beautifully idiomatic and clear, there's... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Orchestral
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2011, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Delius: Violin Concerto, Double Concerto & Cello Concerto
Tasmin Little (violin), Tasmin Little (violin) & Paul Watkins (cello), Paul Watkins (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
Little is every bit as persuasively expressive as on her earlier recordings with Charles Mackerras. Paul Watkins provides the partnership you'd expect from such a fine chamber musician in the... —
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Delius: A Mass of Life
RecommendedRoderick Williams (baritone), Gemma Summerfield (soprano), Claudia Huckle (contralto), Bror Magnus Tødenes (tenor), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edvard Grieg Kor, Collegium Musicum Choir, Bergen Philharmonic Choir, Mark Elder
Williams brings a degree less heroic grit than some rivals, but compensates richly by his intelligent pointing of Nietzsche’s headily symbolic text, and his generously lyrical tone...But it’s... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th November 2023
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Choral
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Choral
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Choral
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 39 - Delius & Ireland
Piers Lane (piano)
Ulster Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones
…Delius's Piano Concerto emerged in 1902 as a full-blown three-movement design… Piers Lane, an eloquent advocate for this restored score, has several rivals in the Ireland Concerto. …I find... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2006, Orchestral Choice
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Boult conducts Coates
RecommendedLondon Philharmonic Orchestra & New Philharmonia Orchestra, Adrian Boult
As ever, Coates's music has great craftsmanship as well as good tunes and, lightweight though it is, it lies firmly within the English tradition. Here Boult finds its affinities with Elgar in... —
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Building a Library, June 2011, Featured
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2007, Editor's Choice
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[Clark's] playing has rapturous firepower...John Wilson's conducting secures ultra-vivid, sparklingly finished performances that also respond memorably to the quieter moments —
