This may not need to be the only Janácek set on the shelf, but it is surely a good place to start a Janácek collection. Outside of the operas, all Janácek's core works are here as well as a few oddballs. But for the core works, the performances in this set are as good or better than any other non-Czech performance. Paul Crossley's performances of ...
The performances on this two-CD budget-price set from EMI are classics of the English choral sound, but the music included is a bit of a mishmash. The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, with its 16 adult male and boy choristers, recorded often during the directorship of Sir David Willcocks, and this set includes selections from their several Bach ...
Usually enchanting but sometimes not always relaxing, this disc of song cycles by Warlock and Vaughan Williams will be unfailingly compelling listening for lovers of the English art song. While Warlock's radiantly romantic setting of Yeats' "The Curlew" for voice, flute, cor anglais, and string quartet and Vaughan Williams' warmly pastoral setting ...
One listener's "Essential Vaughan Williams" is another listener's superfluous Vaughan Williams. There are 29 separate works on this two-disc EMI set, and while no one would argue with the inclusion of The Lark Ascending, the Fantasia on Greensleeves, and the Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; and few would argue with the inclusion of the ...
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