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Thu 07 Mar, 2019:
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Thu 31 Jan, 2019:
Sullivan: The Light of the World
While there is no disguising the Victorian archness of Sullivan’s imposing oratorio The Light of the World, this first account on disc of Robin...
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Thu 10 Jan, 2019:
Korngold: Das Wunder der Heliane
Remarkably, this live concert recording is only the second on disc of Korngold’s fourth opera, the first, with a starry cast led by John Mauceri,...
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Mon 17 Dec, 2018:
Harbison: Requiem
Although John Harbison began his powerful, potent Requiem as early as 1985, he completed it in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in 2001. It...
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Thu 13 Dec, 2018:
Mahler: Symphony No 6 in A minor
Mahler hurts. And he hurts a lot in this symphony, especially when the fires inside are stoked. Klaus Tennstedt did just that in 1983, burnt concealed...
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Mon 26 Nov, 2018:
Earth & Sky: Choral premieres by Vaughan Williams
Here’s something of a coup for William Vann and the Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea (home to the fabled Chelsea Pensioners): 21 first...
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Mon 19 Nov, 2018:
James Francis Brown: The Heavens and the Heart
This first recording of choral and orchestral music by James Francis Brown (b.1969) confirms the promise of his debut collection of chamber works on...
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Wed 14 Nov, 2018:
Bernstein: Wonderful Town
Simon Rattle’s effervescent third take on Bernstein’s under-appreciated Wonderful Town finds the London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra on...
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Mon 05 Nov, 2018:
Julian Anderson: Choral Music – My Beloved Spake; Bell Mass; O sing unto the Lord; I saw Eternity; Four American Choruses; Nunc dimittis; Girolamo Frescobaldi: Toccata quarta
Julian Anderson seems to have come into the world in fully realised compositional maturity. Turning 40 in 2017, he writes with an inherited wisdom...
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Mon 16 Jul, 2018:
Pärt: The Four Symphonies
Gathered together on disc for the first time (and in chronological order), Arvo Pärt’s four symphonies provide a fascinating aside to the ascetic...
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Mon 23 Apr, 2018:
Silence & Music – Stanford: The Blue Bird; Elgar: There is sweet music; Vaughan Williams: Silence and Music; Howells: The summer is coming; Grainger: Brigg Fair; Vaughan Williams: Bushes and Briars: The winter is gone: The Turtle Dove; MacMillan: The Gallant Weaver; Dove: Who killed Cock Robin?; Grainger: The Three Ravens; Britten: The Evening Primrose; Warlock: All the flowers of the spring; Elgar: Owls (An Epitaph); Vaughan Williams: Rest
British part song, once performed and enjoyed by amateurs in home and neighbourhood alike, now seems a rarified genre, and this is perhaps...
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Mon 09 Apr, 2018:
Passion & Polyphony: Sacred choral music by Frank Martin and James MacMillan
For its debut on disc, the mixed-voice London-based choir Sonoro shrewdly couple Frank Martin and James MacMillan, composers a generation apart who...
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Mon 12 Feb, 2018:
Dyson: Choral Symphony; St Paul's Voyage to Melita
George Dyson’s Choral Symphony (1910), composed when he was a student at Oxford, was only discovered recently and is here recorded for the first...
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Mon 27 Nov, 2017:
Mayr: Stabat mater in F minor; Eja mater in F major; Ave maris stella in G major
Franz Hauk describes, in the liner notes, how he reconstructed this ‘Stabat Mater’ from two partial versions as no complete version remained. Five...
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