Britten Sinfonia reviews
Gerald Barry • Beethoven: Symphonies Nos 7-9 etc
Britten Sinfonia/Thomas Adès (Signum Classics)
Donizetti: Il paria
Albina Shagimuratova, et al; Opera Rara Chorus; Britten Sinfonia/Mark Elder (Opera Rara)
Gerald Barry • Beethoven: Symphonies Nos 4-6, etc
Britten Sinfonia/Thomas Adès, et al (Signum Classics)
James MacMillan: The Sun Danced; Symphony No. 5
The Sixteen; Genesis Sixteen; Britten Sinfonia/Harry Christophers, et al (CORO)
Gerald Barry • Beethoven: Symphonies Nos 1-3, etc
Britten Sinfonia/Thomas Adès (Signum Classics)
Alexander Goehr • Colin Matthews • Anna Meredith: Chamber Works
Aurora Orchestra; Nash Ensemble/Martyn Brabbins, et al (NMC)
The deeper the blue...
Janet Sung (violin); Simon Callaghan (piano); Britten Sinfonia/Jac van Steen (SOMM)
The Choir of King's College sings choral works by Bernstein and Vaughan Williams
For this new recording of Dona Nobis Pacem, a new version has been created by Jonathan Rathbone, paring down Vaughan Williams’s full orchestra to chamber proportions, the better to balance it with the young voices of the King’s College Choir. The piece continues to pack a considerable punch in Rathbone’s edition. Timpani and snare drum still rattle ominously in ‘Beat! beat! drums!’, and a nervous trumpet chatters.
Edmund Finnis: The Air, Turning; Elsewhere, etc
Various Artists (NMC)