Naxos - 50% off Hi-Res
Until 11th September 2024, we are offering 50% off Naxos Hi-Res downloads - a great opportunity to build your digital library in the highest possible sound quality.
Naxos - 50% off Hi-Res, Howells (composer)
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I hadn’t expected Howells’s piano music to occupy such different sound-worlds to his better-known works, the spare Satie-esque whimsy of Harlequin Dreaming and the Debussy-ish Phantasy and Summer... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Special offer. Howells: Stabat Mater
RecommendedBenjamin Hulett (tenor), Alison Hill (soprano)
The Bach Choir & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, David Hill
Though there is much emotional turbulence in this music, Hill maintains a compelling life and forward momentum in Howells's immensely contrapuntal score...The Bach Choir has a palpable vibrancy... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Choral
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Special offer. Howells - Sacred Choral Music
RecommendedIain Farrington (organ)
St. John's College Choir, Cambridge, Christopher Robinson
The St. Johns Choir has never sounded better, and the recorded sound is glorious: clear and clean, but with great warmth and a sense of space. The finely nuanced performances are impressively... — More…
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Building a Library, November 2008, First Choice
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Matthew Schellhorn's devotion to the cause…. Sensitive artistry, too, in phrasing, dynamics and subtleties of touch. … The terse and tensile musings of the 15-minute Sonatina for Piano of 1971,... — More…
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Special offer. Howells: Chamber Music
String Quartet 'In Gloucestershire', Lady Audrey's Suite, Piano Quartet
Gould Piano Trio, David Adams (viola)
Dante Quartet
This disc contains music-making of such energy, clear-sightedness and passion that sceptics may wonder where Howells has been all their lives; enthusiasts, of course, will feel wholly vindicated.... — More…
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Special offer. Howells: Hymnus Paradisi & Sir Patrick Spens
Claire Rutter (soprano), James Gilchrist (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone)
The Bach Choir & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, David Hill
Crippling numbness of loss' was the effect on Herbert Howells of his young son Michael's death from meningitis. The composer eventually confronted his bereavement in Hymnus Paradisi… David... — More…
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Special offer. In Terra Pax
RecommendedA Christmas Anthology
Julia Doyle (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone) & Mark Williams (organ and piano)
City of London Choir & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Hilary Davan Wetton
The gem here is Finzi's In terra pax… From late in Finzi's life, it is suffused with English pastoral yearning, and baritone Roderick Williams sings beautifully in the outer sections. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th November 2009
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Special offer. Magnificat - Classical Music for Reflection and Meditation
Magnificats by Mozart, Howells, Willaert, Tomkins & Merulo
Wolfgang Rubsam (organ), Frederic Munoz (organ)
Capella Brugensis, Collegium Instrumentale Brugense, Choir of St John's College Cambridge, Oxford Camerata, Grupo Vocal Gregor, Christopher Robinson, Herve Niquet, Jeremy Summerly, Patrick Peire, Dante Andreo
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Special offer. Music on Christmas Morning
Jocelyn Somerville, Roderick Williams (baritone), Martin Ford, Elizabeth Limb
Vasari Singers, Jeremy Backhouse
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