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This recording features first rate performances of, on the “modern” side, Eriks Ešenvalds’ Magnificat and Nunc dimittis, Arvo Pärt’s The Woman with the Alabaster Box,
The world of classical music is divided into those who find Arnold Schoenberg’s liberally late-romantic orchestration of the Brahms Piano Quartet an ingenious work of
Hubert Parry (1848-1918) may not have written the most original late-Romantic piano trios around, yet one cannot deny his first-rate craftsmanship and ability to wring
For whatever reason, it’s always been unusual for German choirs (or French ones, or Italian ones, for that matter) to venture into English/English language choral
This last box of Boult contains six discs of English
Jerusalem and I was glad have been recorded zillions of times, as you might expect given their exalted status among English cathedral choral works. Even
This set of lovely vocal music by three British masters continues the very welcome re-release on CD of Lyrita Recorded Editions. The Holst work is
This performance of Hubert Parry’s First Symphony is a touch more expansive than Matthias Bamert’s on Chandos, but otherwise there’s little to choose between them.
Hubert Parry’s shorter orchestral works avoid the tedium of his far-flung oratorios while being more formally free than his symphonies. The Symphonic Variations of 1897
Most of these pieces were composed around the turn of the century when English composers were avidly interested in setting their songs with orchestral accompaniment.
