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British Piano Concertos Vol. 2
Simon Callaghan
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Stephen Bell, George Vass
In every case, Simon Callaghan radiates delight in reviving these neglected items, and his pungent and precise fingering is matched by the spirited attack of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales... — More…
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Huw Watkins: Works For Strings & Piano Trio
Leonore Piano Trio (with Rachel Roberts (viola)), Orchestra Nova, George Vass
This music may not set out to challenge the boldness and range of Watkins’s major vocal and orchestral scores. Yet there is no doubt that the same discriminating musical mind is at work in all... — More…
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Special offer. Hyde, T: That Man Stephen Ward
Damian Thantrey (baritone)
Nova Music Opera Ensemble, George Vass
Not so much a polemic as an ironic, if desperately sad portrait of the man himself...Thantrey gives a powerhouse performance as Ward, wonderfully sustaining his cut-glass pronunciation, and... — More…
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Special offer. Joseph Phibbs: Juliana
Zoe Drummond, Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, Felix Kemp
Nova Music Opera Ensemble, George Vass
The score is brilliantly written, with a spaciousness and sure sense of timing that encourages Zoe Drummond ( Juliana) and Felix Kemp ( Juan) to fully vocally and dramatically inhabit their... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2003, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. The Heavens and the Heart
Choral and Orchestral Music by James Francis Brown
Gemma Rosefield, Benjamin Nabarro, Rachel Roberts, Catriona Scott, Choir of Royal Holloway
Orchestra Nova, George Vass
This is likeable stuff. Brown’s largely accessible style is most inventive in the depictions of countryside scenes from his childhood in the Clarinet Concerto, the central work here. — More…
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Sibelius: Violin Concerto & Humoresques
Fenella Humphreys (violin), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, George Vass
Humphreys’s playing is a genuine revelation in the way it brings out the music’s dark and introspective qualities, with no shortage of qualities, with no shortage of technical panache meanwhile…[She]... — More…
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these diverse works add wonderfully to the repertoire and should help open up new horizons for concert promoters. The disc also showcases some superb young performers...Jinny Shaw proves herself... — More…
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Lydia Kakabadse: The Phantom Listeners
Kit Hesketh-Harvey (narrator), Clare McCaldin (mezzo-soprano), Madeleine Easton (violin), Sarah-Jane Bradley (viola), Bozidar Vukotic (cello), Ben Griffiths (double bass), Christian Wilson (piano/organ), Emma Brain-Gabbott (soprano), Michael Bundy (baritone), Caroline Dale (cello), Tim Amherst (double...
If it was Kakabadse's intention to entertain, I cannot deny that she has succeeded, at least with me...The performance is generally excellent, although some of the phantom voices are not exactly... — More…
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Michael Hurd: The Widow of Ephesus & Mr Owen's Great Endeavour
World premiere recordings
Pippa Goss (The Maid), Louise Winter (The Widow) & Michael Bundy (The Soldier), Michael Bundy (Narrator)
Orchestra Nova, City of Canterbury Chamber Choir, George Vass
[The Widow of Ephesus] is neat and entertaining in an archly comic, tongue-in-cheek sort of way...[Hurd's music] is couched in a thoroughly accessible idiom, is always rhythmical and is remarkably... — More…
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