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Within a Dream - A Celebration of the Artistry of Richard Hickox

2 CD / Chandos Records / 2009-10-27

Works: Frank Bridge: The Sea; Benjamin Britten: Albert Herring, Op. 39; War Requiem, Op. 66; Peter Grimes; Ralph Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony (Symphony no 2) (Original 1913 version); The Pilgrim's Pr...
Performers: Ainsley, John Mark; Barker, Cheryl; Bullock, Susan; Burgess, Sally; Davies, Arthur [Tenor Vocal]; Eckhoff, Herbert; Elms, Roderick; Finley, Gerald [Bass-Baritone Vocals]; Gilchrist, James [Tenor Voca...
Conductors: Hickox, Richard
Ensemble: Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra; BBC National Orchestra of Wales; BBC Welsh Symphony; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; City of London Sinfonia; Collegium Musicum 90; London Symphony Orchestra; R...

The premature death of Richard Hickox on 23 November 2008, aged sixty, deprived the musical world of one of its greatest conductors. The depth and...continue...

The Essential Delius

2 CD / Chandos Records / 2007-09-11

Works: Frederick Delius: Florida Suite; North Country Sketches, for orchestra, RT vi/20; Air & Dance, for string orchestra, RT vi/21; Pieces (2) for small orchestra, RT vi/19; A Song Before Sunrise; Aquarel...
Conductors: Handley, Vernon; Hickox, Richard
Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Ulster Orchestra

A comprehensive and richly varied Delius program has been put together for this new two-CD collection. Vernon Handley's splendid Ulster performance of the comparatively rarely...continue...

Classics - Tippett: The Symphonies / Hickox, Bournemouth SO

3 CD / Chandos Records / 2005-10-18

Works: Michael Tippett: Symphony no 1; Symphony no 2; Symphony no 3 for soprano & orchestra; Symphony no 4; New Year Suite, suite from the opera for orchestra
Performers: Bush, Melanie; Holmes, Tim; Horch, Kyle; Millett, Robert; Robinson, Faye; Smith, Steve; Taylor, S. Alan
Conductors: Hickox, Richard
Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

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This is Tippett firing on all cylinders, with a performance and recording to match.
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Bear Essentials - Great British Orchestral Classics

2 CD / Chandos Records / 2005-09-20

Works: William Walton: Prelude and Fugue "Spitfire"; Façade, Suite no 2, for orchestra; Coronation March "Crown Imperial"; Ralph Vaughan Williams: The lark ascending; Fantasia on Greensleeves; Gustav H...
Performers: Davis, Michael [Violin]; Kirshbaum, Ralph
Conductors: Marriner, Sir Neville; Thompson, Bryden; Hickox, Richard; del Mar, Norman; Latham-Koenig, Jan; Gamba, Rumon; Handley, Vernon; Gibson, Alexander, Sir; Willcocks, David; Turovsky, Yuli; Garforth, David...
Ensemble: ; Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Bournemouth Sinfonietta; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; City of London Sinfonia; English Chamber Orchestra; I Musici de Montr&eacut...

Bear Essentials - Classics for Funerals

2 CD / Chandos Records / 2005-02-22

Works: Frédéric Chopin: Sonata for Piano no 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 "Funeral March"; Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem Mass; Johann Sebastian Bach: Komm, süsser Tod, komm, sel'ge Ruh'!, BWV 478; Conc...
Performers: Austin, Michael [Organ]; Comberti, Micaela; Crabtree, Libby; Kenyon, Philip; Kirkby, Emma; Lortie, Louis; Rodgers, Joan; Scott, Jonathan; Standage, Simon; Torchinsky, Yuri [Violin]
Conductors: Bamert, Matthias; Hickox, Richard; Tortelier, Yan Pascal; Gibson, Alexander, Sir; Standage, Simon; Järvi, Neeme; Parrott, Andrew; Guest, George; Christophers, Harry; Handley, Vernon; Hurst, Geor...
Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Bournemouth Sinfonietta; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Collegium Musicum 90; Detroit Symphony Orchestra; London Symphony Chorus; R...

Bear Essentials - British Film Classics

2 CD / Chandos Records / 2003-08-26

Works: Ron Goodwin: The Trap; Battle of Britain; 633 Squadron; Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines; Sir Arthur Bliss: Things to Come, F 131; Alan Rawsthorne: Uncle Silas; The Cruel Sea; William W...
Performers: Carewe, Mary [soprano]; Dukes, Philip; Roscoe, Martin; Wild, Earl
Conductors: Goodwin, Ron; Gamba, Rumon; Marriner, Sir Neville; Hickox, Richard; Stephens, D. S.; Horenstein, Jascha
Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra; Royal Air Force Regiment Band; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Richard Hickox - CBE - A Celebration

2 CD / Chandos Records / 2002-11-26

Works: Herbert Howells: Pageantry, suite for brass band; Hymnus Paradisi for soprano, tenor, chorus & orchestra; Percy Grainger: Country Gardens; Scotch Strathspey and Reel, folk song for male chorus (or ma...
Performers: Argenta, Nancy; Denley, Catherine; Harper, Heather; Little, Tasmin; Ogden, Craig [Guitar]; Padmore, Mark [Tenor Vocals]; Rodgers, Joan; Tear, Robert; Terfel, Bryn; Varcoe, Stephen [Baritone Vocals]
Conductors: Hickox, Richard
Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales; BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; BBC Symphony Orchestra; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; City of London Sinfonia; Collegium Musicum 90; London Symphony Chorus; London Symp...

Tippett: Piano Concerto, etc / Shelley, Hickox, et al

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2001-07-24

Works: Michael Tippett: Piano Concerto; Praeludium, for brass, bells & percussion; Fantasia on a Theme of Handel, for piano & orchestra; Fantasia concertante on a theme of Corelli
Performers: Koos, Joseph; O'Brien, Brendan; Shelley, Howard; Verrall, Colin
Conductors: Hickox, Richard
Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Pianist Howard Shelley and conductor Richard Hickox join forces to perform music by the great twentieth century British master, Sir Michael Tippett. The Penguin Guide...continue...

Delius: A Mass of Life, Requiem / Hickox, Bournemouth SO

2 CD / Chandos Records / 1997-03-18

Works: Frederick Delius: Requiem, for soprano, baritone, double chorus & orchestra, RT ii/8; A Mass of Life (Eine Messe des Lebens), for soloists, chorus & orchestra, RT ii/4
Performers: Coleman-Wright, Peter; Evans, Rebecca; Rigby, Jean; Robson, Nigel; Rodgers, Joan; Waynflete Singers
Conductors: Hickox, Richard
Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Waynflete Singers

"The Mass can be a problematic work, but Hickox proved in his 1996 recording, here reissued, that given a sumptuous recording, sensitive orchestral playing and...continue...

Delius: A Walk in a Paradise Garden / Hickox, Bournemouth SO

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1995-04-18

Works: Frederick Delius: A Village Romeo and Juliet; A Dance Rhapsody (no 1), for orchestra, RT vi/18; A Dance Rhapsody (no 2), for orchestra, RT vi/22; In a Summer Garden, rhapsody for orchestra, RT vi/17;...
Conductors: Hickox, Richard
Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Tippett: Symphony no 1, Piano Concerto / Shelley, Hickox

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1995-02-01

Works: Michael Tippett: Symphony no 1; Piano Concerto
Performers: Shelley, Howard
Conductors: Hickox, Richard
Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Tippett: Symphony no 2, etc / Hickox, Bournemouth SO

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1994-09-01

Works: Michael Tippett: Symphony no 2; New Year Suite, suite from the opera for orchestra
Performers: Bush, Melanie; Holmes, Tim; Horch, Kyle; Smith, Steven; Taylor, S. Alan
Conductors: Hickox, Richard
Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra / Hickox

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1994-01-01

Works: Benjamin Britten: The Young person's guide to the orchestra; Suite on English folk tunes (A time there was), for orchestra, Op. 90; Johnson over Jordan, incidental music, soprano, flute & orchestra; ...
Performers: Craig, Celia; Maguire, Jack; O'Brien, Brendan
Conductors: Hickox, Richard
Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Delius: Sea Drift, Songs of Sunset, etc / Hickox, Terfel

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1993-10-01

Works: Frederick Delius: Sea Drift, for baritone, chorus & orchestra, RT ii/3; Songs of Farewell, for double chorus & orchestra, RT ii/9; Songs of Sunset
Performers: Burgess, Sally; Terfel, Bryn; Waynflete Singers
Conductors: Hickox, Richard
Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Southern Voices

"This disc was an award-winner when it first appeared in 1993, and rightly so. These are among Delius's finest and most consistent works, and Hickox...continue...

Tippett: Symphony no 4, etc / Shelley, Hickox, Bournmouth SO

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1993-10-01

Works: Michael Tippett: Symphony no 4; Fantasia concertante on a theme of Corelli; Fantasia on a Theme of Handel, for piano & orchestra
Performers: Koos, Joseph; O'Brien, Brendan; Shelley, Howard; Verrall, Colin
Conductors: Hickox, Richard
Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra