Bantock - Fifine at the Fair - A Defence of Inconstancy
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Bantock: Omar Khayyám
RecommendedSarah Walker (contralto), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) & Brian Raynor Cook (baritone), Johanna Peters (contralto)
BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Norman Del Mar
This 1979 revival…is complete, and much livelier [than Handley’s performance] with equally fine soloists…it’s well coupled with other less rare Bantock, especially Fifine at the Fair, based... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
4 CDs
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Special offer. Bantock - Orchestral Music
Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Elizabeth Connell (soprano), Elizabeth Connell (soprano) & Kim Begley (tenor)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley
Magnificently recorded and performed. When audiences are crying out for 'melodious music' how can such music as this have been ignored for so long? — More…
6 CDs
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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - British Composers. Elgar, Holst, Bax, Delius...
Jacqueline du Pré (cello), Christopher Parkening (guitar), John Ogdon (piano), Nigel Kennedy (violin), Colin Horsley (piano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Thomas Beecham, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Yehudi Menuhin, Lawrance Collingwood, Richard Cooke, Sir...
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Bantock: Fifine at the Fair
Jack Brymer (clarinet), Albert Cayzler (viola), Robert Donat (narrator)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Thomas Beecham, Alan Rawsthorne
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This collection confirms Bantock as a composer of real achievement whose music has been undeservedly neglected. He was a superb technician, and his impressively large-scale structures have a... — More…
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Sir Thomas Beecham conducts English Music
John Cameron (baritone), Maureen Forrester (contralto), David McCallum (violin), Freda Hart (soprano), Leslie Jones (tenor), Dennis Dowling (Manz), Frederick Sharp (Marti), Margaret Ritchie (Sali - as a child), René Soames (Sali), Dorothy Bond (Vreli - as a child), Lorely Dyer (Vreli), Gordon Clinton...
Beecham's English Collection is unmissable...[Song of the High Hills is] one of the first recordings made by Beecham's new postwar orchestra, and they already play as though they adore him — More…
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