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Fri 14 Jun, 2019:
Vaughan Williams: Viola Fantasia – Suite for Viola and Piano; Romance for Viola and Piano; Six Studies in English Folk Song; Fantasia on Greensleeves; Fantasia on Sussex Folk Tunes; Four Hymns for Tenor, Viola and Piano

Vaughan Williams aficionados will find much to enjoy in this compendium of pieces eloquently combining viola – the instrument closest to VW’s...

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Wed 29 May, 2019:
Colour and Light: 20th-Century British Piano Music – Alwyn: Twelve Preludes; Peter Dickinson: Paraphrase II; Delius: Nocturne; Margot la Rouge; Lutyens: The Ring of Bone; Anthony Herschel Hill: Litany; Toccata

Nathan Williamson follows his admirable traversal of Great American Sonatas on SOMM (reviewed 5 May 2017) with Colour and Light, a fascinating...

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Wed 15 May, 2019:
Jess Gillam: Rise – Music by Pedro Iturralde, Kate Bush, Alessandro Marcello, Darius Milhaud, John Williams, Michael Nyman, John Harle, David Bowie, Kurt Weill, John Dowland, Rudy Wiedoeft, Dmitri Shostakovich, Francis Lai, Traditional.

With an appearance at the Last Night of the Proms closing her teens in 2018 and her own BBC Radio 3 show ushering in her twenties, Jess Gillam is a...

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Thu 25 Apr, 2019:
Grace Williams: Violin Sonata; Sextet for Oboe, Trumpet, Violin, Viola, Cello and Piano; Suite for Nine Instruments; Romanza; Sarabande; Rondo for Dancing

Glancingly featured on disc, Welsh composer Grace Williams (1906-77) receives a welcome boost with this sympathetically played chamber music...

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Sun 21 Apr, 2019:
Berlioz: L’enfance du Christ

The sesquicentennial commemorations of Berlioz’s death in 1869 get under way with his ‘sacred trilogy’ L’enfance du Christ in a recording that...

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Thu 04 Apr, 2019:
Celebrating John Williams

Harking back to Hollywood’s Golden Age, John Williams single-handedly returned the symphony orchestra to the cinema screen in the late 1970s. Since...

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Thu 24 Jan, 2019:
Clarke: Viola Sonata; Bridge: Cello Sonata; Scherzo; Serenade; Spring Song; Vaughan Williams: Six Studies in English Folk Song

Runner-up to Ernest Bloch's Suite for viola and piano in a prestigious competition organised by the American patron Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, the...

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Thu 24 Jan, 2019:
Clarke: Viola Sonata; Bridge: Cello Sonata; Scherzo; Serenade; Spring Song; Vaughan Williams: Six Studies in English Folk Song

Runner-up to Ernest Bloch's Suite for viola and piano in a prestigious competition organised by the American patron Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, the...

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Mon 31 Dec, 2018:
Elgar: The Hills of Dreamland – Orchestral Songs; Grania and Diarmid, Op 42

Too long overlooked and in need of a champion, Elgar’s songs may just have found one in Kathryn Rudge. Dip into the rapt reverie of Pleading (whose...

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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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Mon 25 Jun, 2018:
Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music; Oboe Concerto; Flos Campi; Piano Concerto

Peter Oundjian takes his leave of the Toronto Symphony after 14 years with a composer close to his heart, Vaughan Williams. There’s warmth aplenty...

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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 12 Mar, 2018:
Elgar: Falstaff, Op 68; Songs, Op 59; Songs, Op 60; Two Movements from Grania and Diarmid; The Wind at Dawn; The Pipes of Pan; Pleading; The King’s Way; Kindly Do Not Smoke

Sir Andrew Davis’s long association with Elgar’s Falstaff bears ripe, thoroughly satisfying fruit here in his third recording of the work (his...

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Fri 14 Jun, 2019:
Vaughan Williams: Viola Fantasia – Suite for Viola and Piano; Romance for Viola and Piano; Six Studies in English Folk Song; Fantasia on Greensleeves; Fantasia on Sussex Folk Tunes; Four Hymns for Tenor, Viola and Piano

Vaughan Williams aficionados will find much to enjoy in this compendium of pieces eloquently combining viola – the instrument closest to VW’s...

Wed 29 May, 2019:
Colour and Light: 20th-Century British Piano Music – Alwyn: Twelve Preludes; Peter Dickinson: Paraphrase II; Delius: Nocturne; Margot la Rouge; Lutyens: The Ring of Bone; Anthony Herschel Hill: Litany; Toccata

Nathan Williamson follows his admirable traversal of Great American Sonatas on SOMM (reviewed 5 May 2017) with Colour and Light, a fascinating...

Wed 15 May, 2019:
Jess Gillam: Rise – Music by Pedro Iturralde, Kate Bush, Alessandro Marcello, Darius Milhaud, John Williams, Michael Nyman, John Harle, David Bowie, Kurt Weill, John Dowland, Rudy Wiedoeft, Dmitri Shostakovich, Francis Lai, Traditional.

With an appearance at the Last Night of the Proms closing her teens in 2018 and her own BBC Radio 3 show ushering in her twenties, Jess Gillam is a...

Thu 25 Apr, 2019:
Grace Williams: Violin Sonata; Sextet for Oboe, Trumpet, Violin, Viola, Cello and Piano; Suite for Nine Instruments; Romanza; Sarabande; Rondo for Dancing

Glancingly featured on disc, Welsh composer Grace Williams (1906-77) receives a welcome boost with this sympathetically played chamber music...

Sun 21 Apr, 2019:
Berlioz: L’enfance du Christ

The sesquicentennial commemorations of Berlioz’s death in 1869 get under way with his ‘sacred trilogy’ L’enfance du Christ in a recording that...

Thu 04 Apr, 2019:
Celebrating John Williams

Harking back to Hollywood’s Golden Age, John Williams single-handedly returned the symphony orchestra to the cinema screen in the late 1970s. Since...

Thu 24 Jan, 2019:
Clarke: Viola Sonata; Bridge: Cello Sonata; Scherzo; Serenade; Spring Song; Vaughan Williams: Six Studies in English Folk Song

Runner-up to Ernest Bloch's Suite for viola and piano in a prestigious competition organised by the American patron Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, the...

Thu 24 Jan, 2019:
Clarke: Viola Sonata; Bridge: Cello Sonata; Scherzo; Serenade; Spring Song; Vaughan Williams: Six Studies in English Folk Song

Runner-up to Ernest Bloch's Suite for viola and piano in a prestigious competition organised by the American patron Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, the...

Mon 31 Dec, 2018:
Elgar: The Hills of Dreamland – Orchestral Songs; Grania and Diarmid, Op 42

Too long overlooked and in need of a champion, Elgar’s songs may just have found one in Kathryn Rudge. Dip into the rapt reverie of Pleading (whose...

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...

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...

Mon 25 Jun, 2018:
Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music; Oboe Concerto; Flos Campi; Piano Concerto

Peter Oundjian takes his leave of the Toronto Symphony after 14 years with a composer close to his heart, Vaughan Williams. There’s warmth aplenty...

British part song, once performed and enjoyed by amateurs in home and neighbourhood alike, now seems a rarified genre, and this is perhaps...

Mon 12 Mar, 2018:
Elgar: Falstaff, Op 68; Songs, Op 59; Songs, Op 60; Two Movements from Grania and Diarmid; The Wind at Dawn; The Pipes of Pan; Pleading; The King’s Way; Kindly Do Not Smoke

Sir Andrew Davis’s long association with Elgar’s Falstaff bears ripe, thoroughly satisfying fruit here in his third recording of the work (his...

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