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Chandos Sale - Physical up to 25% Off & Downloads up to 40% Off, Rubbra (composer)
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Special offer. Rubbra: Symphony Nos. 3 & 7
RecommendedBBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox
For some years the Third Symphony was a repertory piece, at least on BBC programmes, but it fell out of favour in the late 1950s. Commentators have noticed a certain Sibelian cut to its opening... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Rubbra: Symphony No. 9, Op. 140 'Sinfonia Sacra', etc.
RecommendedLynne Dawson (soprano), Della Jones (contralto), Stephen Roberts (bass)
BBC National Chorus & Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox
The Ninth (1973) is Rubbra's most visionary utterance, and its stature has so far gone unrecognised.
(This is its only recording.) Its subtitle, Sinfoniasacra, gives a good idea of its character.... — More…Awards:
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Rubbra - Complete Symphonies
Lynne Dawson (soprano), Della Jones (contralto), Stephen Roberts (baritone)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC National Chorus of Wales, Richard Hickox
Hickox's reading of the Fifth Symphony is easily the finest and most penetrating; the slow movement has great depth and, thanks to a magnficent recording, a great clarity than either of its... — More…
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Special offer. Rubbra: The Morning Watch, Op. 55, etc.
Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Howard Shelley (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC National Chorus of Wales, Richard Hickox
A mouth-watering reissue comprising four outstandingly eloquent performances. The stand-out item here has to be Howard Shelley's imperious traversal of the big-boned Sinfoniaconcertante for... — More…
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Special offer. Rubbra: Inscape, Op. 122, etc.
RecommendedStephen Varcoe (baritone)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chorus, City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. The Jade Mountain – Songs by Edmund Rubbra
Claire Barnett-Jones, Iain Burnside (piano), Marcus Farnsworth (baritone), Lucy Crowe (soprano), Timothy Ridout (viola), Catrin Finch (harp)
The five-song cycle The Jade Mountain dates from four decades later, and is central to the recital. Chinese poetry provides the texts, and Catrin Finch’s harp brings a sense of ethereality and... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2023
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How good it is to have these deeply sympathetic performances (which were recorded in the presence of the grateful composer at St Alban's Church, Holborn, over one December day in 1975) restored... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2007, Re-issue of the Month
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Special offer. Rubbra: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 8 and Ode to the Queen
Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox
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