While the list of great British concerted works for violin and orchestra is long and distinguished -- Elgar, Walton, and Britten's concertos along with Vaughan Williams' one-movement The Lark Ascending -- the list of great British concerted works for viola and orchestra is nearly as long and nearly as distinguished. In addition to the concertos by ...
The King's Singers, the male vocal sextet, perform with extraordinary vocal blend, purity of tone, technical security, and interpretive sensitivity. This CD brings together choral music from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century that is related to the broad themes of landscape and time. The collection contains texts related to specific ...
Christopher Austin and the Brunel Ensemble devote considerable energy to promote modern and contemporary music; their 1996 performances of works by Robert Saxton, Elisabeth Lutyens, John McCabe, and Malcolm Williamson show the musicians' wide embrace of all styles, techniques, and expressions; and this well-balanced CD is intelligently arranged to ...
The second of three volumes dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the founding of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, this four-disc set mostly features English music led by mostly non-English conductors. One disc has John Pritchard, the lone English conductor, directing Britten's Serenade for tenor, horn, and strings and Violin Concerto with tenor ...
If post-war English orchestral music is your special area of interest, this disc featuring the London Philharmonic in two world-premiere performances and a London premiere performance of works by Malcolm Arnold and John McCabe will be of compelling interest. Indeed, both the world premieres here, McCabe's Concerto for Orchestra and Arnold's ...
The quintessentially English King's Singers have recorded prolifically and are approaching a catalog landmark of 100 album releases. Three box sets of five albums apiece are on the market, all with titles suggesting they represent best-of selections from among the group's repertoire. In no case is this so; all the boxes are simply repackagings of ...
As bassist Leon Bosch mentions (repeatedly) in his liner notes, the double bass is most assuredly a "Cinderella instrument." Works for the bass are a hard sell, not because they are of inferior quality or because the bass cannot hold its own as a solo instrument, but because these qualities are perceived to be true. On his album The British Double ...
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