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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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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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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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Special offer. Tasmin Little plays British Violin Concertos
Tasmin Little (violin)
BBC Philharmonic, Sir Andrew Davis
Besides the stellar quality of Little's playing (as ever, warmly engaging and technically bombproof), Sir Andrew Davis and the BBC Philharmonic provide accompaniments in a special class. The... —
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Delius: Sea Drift & Cynara
Roderick Williams (baritone)
Hallé & Hallé Choir & Hallé Youth Choir, Hallé Choir, Sir Mark Elder
The Halle plays with precise attacks and perfect blending, and Mark Elder directs with sure control of the episodic structure...Williams is an outstanding soloists, with well focused tone throughout... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Choral
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Delius: Mass of Life & Idyll
RecommendedJanice Watson (soprano), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano), Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Alan Opie (baritone), Janice Watson (soprano) & Alan Opie (baritone)
Bournemouth Symphony, The Bach Choir, David Hill
David Hill's impressive new recording with his Bach Choir (in the original German) boasts confident, ardent choral singing and orchestral playing, and a string solo team - even if Alan Opie,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th July 2012
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2012, 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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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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And the Bridge is Love
RecommendedEnglish Music for Strings
Julian Lloyd Webber (cello)
English Chamber Orchestra
as a conductor, he evidently has the ability to make a difference to collective performance-level (the English Chamber Orchestra plays characteristically and vividly at every point) while not... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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The Watkins brothers, Paul and Huw, buckle down to their task with sympathy and panache...The Bantock trinket is conveyed with passion, but it's left to the Foulds, almost outlandishly exuberant,... —
