Chandos
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Special offer. Holst: Orchestral Works Volume 1
Joyful Company of Singers & BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox
The only other recording of these ballets [The Golden Goose, The Morning of the Year] apart from ones of Imogen Holst's collations - is Hilary Davan Wetton's for Hyperion (1995), coupled with... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2009, Disc of the Month
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Special offer. Like to the Lark
Jennifer Pike (violin), Maria Forsström (mezzo-soprano)
The Swedish Chamber Choir, Simon Phipps
Listening to Simon Philipps’s immaculately accomplished Swedish Chamber Choir is rather like sinking gently into a warm bath bubbling over with your favourite scented lotions…This album combin[es]... — More…
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Record Review, 16th November 2019, Disc of the Week
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nothing, either in expression or tone, is ever forced. It helps that [Bavouzet's] modern grand (maker unspecified) has a relatively crisp lower register, and that the recorded sound rightly... — More…
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2010, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Michael Tippett - Complete Symphonies
Faye Robinson (soprano)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox
The riot of proliferating counterpoint that is Tippett's Symphony No 1 presents enough problems of orchestral balance to give recording teams nightmares. Chandos has managed creditable degrees... — More…
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Special offer. Pierre Sancan: A Musical Tribute
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano), Adam Walker (flute), BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier
Reminding one a little of Ravel or even Khachaturian, the 1957 Piano Concerto is the major work on an album devoted to a composer who remains largely unknown in his native France. The other... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2023, Editor's Choice
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The music speaks so directly and involving that you're caught up in it from the start. …A Vision and a Journey lives up to its title impressively: taking Sibelius as an inspiration… was clearly... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Contemporary
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Special offer. Lines Written During a Sleepless Night
RecommendedLouise Alder (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Alder needs her linguistic wits about her – pianist Joseph Middleton too as he responds to or prefigures her changing colours and inflections. Both triumph across a nightscape in which dreaming... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd January 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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Special offer. Bliss: Morning Heroes & Hymn to Apollo
RecommendedSamuel West (orator)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, Sir Andrew Davis
Sir Andrew Davis's performance with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus surpasses Sir Charles Groves's fine 1974 EMI Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra account with urgent tempos, choral... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th September 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Choral
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Wilson and the BBC Philharmonic make the most of this music’s European footprints, aided by the typically clean and expansive Chandos recording, with beefy climaxes and plenty of ballast from... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2018
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Special offer. Cyril Scott - Orchestral Works Volume 3
Olivier Charlier (violin)
BBC Philharmonic & Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus, Martyn Brabbins
…the latest instalment from Chandos continues to acquaint us with sadly unfamiliar delights - especially Scott's one-movement Violin Concerto, forgotten since the 1920s. A fascinating work... — More…
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