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JACOB / LEIGH / LLOYD / LAMBERT / MATHAIS / PARRY / STANFORD / WORDSWORTH / etc
Celebrating 50 Years Devoted To British Music - Set 2 Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord) John Ogdon (piano) / BBC Symphony / London Symphony / London Philharmonic [ Lyrita / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/2009 ] "The idea is to offer a single substantial orchestral track for the majority of composers represented in the Lyrita catalogue. You can sometimes argue with the selection but overall the right note has been struck - right and bold" (MusicWeb Oct 2009) |
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WALTER LEIGH
Concertino for Harpsichord / Music for String Orchestra / A Midsummer Night's Dream Suite / etc Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord) / London Philharmonic Orchestra / New Philharmonia Orchestra / Nicholas Braithwaite (conductor) [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] "The composer, Walter Leigh, is little known today yet was undoubtedly one of England’s gifted and versatile composers" (MusicWeb Aug 2007) |
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SCHOENBERG
String Trio / 4 Pieces for Mixed Chorus / 3 Satires / Suite Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble / Simon Joly Chorale / London Sinfonietta / London Symphony Orchestra / Robert Craft [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Apr/2010 ] "The performance has the right idea in not attempting to gloss over the discontinuities [of the String Trio]...[these players] give a good sense of the way angry expression dissolves into wistful lyricism at the end...Schoenberg's voice...is heard to... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No.9 in D minor, Op.125 'Choral' Twyla Robinson, Karen Cargill, John Mac Master, Gerald Finley / London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Bernard Haitink [ Alto / CD - released 10/Feb/2020 ] "a magnificent Ninth, done with total commitment under Haitink's inspiring leadership…with splendid chorus and soloists in full cry, and orchestra in blazing form" (Sunday Times) |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No 9 'Choral' Twyla Robinson, Karen Cargill, John Mac Master, Gerald Finley / London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Bernard Haitink [ LSO Live SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 29/Sep/2006 ] Hybrid/SACD - playable on all compact disc players Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is a landmark in the history of music, changing the concept of what a symphony could be. The use of solo singers and a chorus in the final movement was revolutionary, and |
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MESSIEAN
Des Canyons aux Étoiles (recorded Nov 2013) Tzimon Barto (piano), John Ryan (horn), Andrew Barclay (xylorimba) & Erika Öhman (glockenspiel) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach [ LPO Live / 2 CD - released 25/Mar/2015 ] "This performance of Messiaen's late, great 100-minute orchestral cycle - 12 pieces for an altering configuration - was recorded live at the Royal Festival Hall in 2013, and makes a powerful, colourful, even apocalyptically witty effect, I find, on s |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
The Little Sweep, Op. 45 / Cantata Academica, Op. 62 Jennifer Vyvyan, Helen Watts, Peter Pears, Owen Brannigan, London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, George Malcolm / English Opera Group, Benjamin Britte [ Heritage / CD - released 23/Jan/2012 ] Two of Britten's rarities, his children's opera The Little Sweep and the Cantata Academica, have been unavailable for several years. The definitive recordings made with the English Opera Group and the London Symphony Orchestra are now available on... |
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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: The Complete Adrian Boult Recordings London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir, Sir Adrian Boult [ Warner Classics / 13 CD Box Set - released 12/Sep/2018 ] "It seems superfluous to recommend this box. It contains around 17 hours of Boult's VW. Many of these recordings are amongst the very best you will hear." MusicWeb |
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COATES / WALTON / GOODWIN / BLISS / ELGAR / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / etc
Remembrance Classics Various Artists including Royal Scottish National Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic [ Chandos 241 / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2004 ] Music with a war or patriotic theme including Land of Hope and Glory, Onward Christian Soldiers & the Battle of Britain March |
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RICHARD HICKOX
Within A Dream: A Celebration of the Artistry of Richard Hickox Various performers / City of London Sinfonia / Northern Sinfonia / Australian Opera & Ballet / Collegium Musicum 90 / Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2010 ] The premature death of Richard Hickox on 23 November, 2008, at the age of just 60, deprived the musical world of one of its greatest conductors. The depth and breadth of his musical achievements were astonishing as this 2 CD collections reveals. |
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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Williams: Legendary Recordings (Incls 'On Wenlock Edge' & 'Serenade To Music') Recorded 1938-1955 George Maran (tenor) / London String Quartet / Ivor Newton (piano) / Isobel Baillie / Heddle Nash / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Adrian Boult [ ALTO / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] "1938 was Sir Henry Wood's jubilee and the magical Serenade to Music which Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote for it… this, with the original soloists RVW had in mind, has obvious uniqueness but it possesses a very special beauty and atmosphere." - Gramophone |
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Victoria de los Angeles, Richard Lewis, Gerald Moore, London Symph.
Baroque and Religious Arias (Mozart, Handel, Bach & Franck) [ Testament / CD - released 14/Jul/2000 ] Victoria de los Angeles at the peak of her career! |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Symphony No 2 / variations on a theme by Haydn Vienna Philharmonic Oorchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 10/Sep/2015 ] Monteux recorded Brahms's Second Symphony several times; in addition to the present recording for Decca with the Vienna Philharmonic, there are versions with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra. He recorded the... |
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Vienna Po/London Po
Beethoven: Symphony No.7 & 8 [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 31/Mar/2003 ] |
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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Works [Incls Piano Concerto Nos. 2 & 3] Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2014 ] Classic Rachmaninov/Ashkenazy recordings on one double CD set. 144 minutes playing time! |
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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 1 - 4 Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 6/Jan/2000 ] "The new Double Decca set of the four Rachmaninov concertos now tends to sweep the board." *** Three Stars Penguin Stereo Guide |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: English Suites - Nos 1 - 3 / Keyboard Concerto No 1 in D minor Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano), with London Symphony Orchestra, David Zinman [ Decca / 2 CD - released 15/Oct/2021 ] "Taking off into the heavens with a notably muscular account of the opening Prelude, Ashkenazy gives a performance with nothing mannered in its unvarnished expressiveness; every note in every piece of ornamentation comes over with lapidary clarity."... |
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MOZART / BEETHOVEN / LISZT
Piano Concertos Walter Gieseking (Piano) Berlin State Opera Orchestra / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Henry Wood (Conductor) Hans Rosbaud (Conductor) [ Naxos Historical Recordings / CD - released 11/May/2006 ] 'Mr Gieseking's skill is great enough in some ways… and his pianissimo now and then becomes as nearly nothing as is possible to imagine…' |
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BIZET
Symphony in C / L'Arlesienne Suites 1 & 2 / Jeux d'Enfants Westdeutsche Sinfonia / London Symphony Orchestra / Fruhbeck de Burgos, Barry Wordsworth [ Regis Records / CD - released 21/Dec/2004 ] "this will give much pleasure" - Gramophone |
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WESTMINSTER ABBEY
Great Occasions Westminster Abbey Choir, London Brass, Iain Simcock (organ). Martin Neary [ Regis Records / CD - released 12/Jun/2002 ] "Much pleasure here..choir are in fine form" (Gramophone) |