Scottish National Orchestra
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Elgar: Coronation Ode & The Spirit of England
Teresa Cahill (soprano), Anne Collins (contralto), Anthony Rolfe-Johnson (tenor), Gwynne Howell (bass)
Scottish National Orchestra, Sir Alexander Gibson
Gibson's performances combine fire and panache, and the recorded sound has an ideal Elgarian expansiveness, the choral tone rich and well focused, the orchestral brass given plenty of weight. — More…
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Neeme Jarvi draws the most seductive response from the SNO; he consistently creates orchestral textures which are diaphanously sinuous. Yet the robust moments…are caught just as strikingly and... — More…
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Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic – complete score
Ilona Domnich (soprano), Christopher Nickol (organ), Women of the Scottish National Orchestra Chorus (chorus)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates
Yates conducts with appropriate majesty, his slow tempos very close to Ernest Irvin’s in the film. The RSNO and chorus are in powerful form, and Ilona Domnich contributes a strikingly eerie... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Orchestral Choice
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60 'Leningrad'
RecommendedScottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
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Building A Library, December 2021, Also Recommended
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Finzi & Leighton - Cello Concertos
RecommendedRaphael Wallfisch (cello)
Scottish National Orchestra, Bryden Thomson
The Cello Concerto is arguably Finzi's finest work, written at the very end of his life under the stress of knowing he was terminally ill. At just under 40 minutes it's planned on a massive... — More…
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Building a Library, December 2006, First Choice
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Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6 in E flat minor, Op. 111, etc.
RecommendedScottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
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Gramophone Awards, 1985, Winner - Orchestral
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Shostakovich - Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedLydia Mordkovitch (violin)
Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
This coupling completely explodes the idea of the Second Violin Concerto being a disappointment after the dramatic originality of No 1.
Certainly No 2, completed in 1967, a year after the very... — More…Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 1990, Winner - Concerto
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An introduction to Gustav Holst
Scottish National Orchestra & City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox & Sir Alexander Gibson
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