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Elgar: Nursery Suite, Sospiri, etc / Goodwin, Price, et al

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2009-04-14

Works: Edward Elgar: Nursery Suite; Dream Children, for small orchestra (or piano), Op. 43; In the South (Alassio), Concert Overture, Op. 50; Romance, for bassoon & orchestra (also arr. for cello & piano), ...
Performers: Bennett, William; Ellis, Osian; Gonley, Stephanie; Price, Julie
Conductors: Goodwin, Paul
Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra

International Record Review
Not even Sir John Barbirolli or the much underrated William Boughton quite captures the same sense of strings merely breathing on their instruments...continue...

Vivaldi, etc: Bassoon Concertos / Smith, Ledger, English CO

1 CD / Regis Records / 2007-02-01

Works: Henry Hargrave: Concerto for Bassoon no 4 in B flat major; Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Bassoon in C major, RV 479; Johann Wilhelm Hertel: Concerto for Bassoon in A minor; Christoph Graupner: Concer...
Performers: Ledger, Philip, Sir; Smith, Daniel
Conductors: Ledger, Philip, Sir
Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra

"... most able soloist, velvet toned and fluent... ECO spring heeled... enjoying their work... recording is excellent..." - Gramophone. Daniel Smith is "the ambassador of...continue...

Gemini - Mozart: Wind Concertos / Barenboim

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2006-02-21

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sinfonia concertante for Violin and Viola in E flat major, K 364 (320d); Concerto for Flute no 1 in G major, K. 313 (K. 285c); Andante for Flute and Orchestra in C major, K 3...
Performers: Bourgue, Maurice; Debost, Michel; Gatt, Martin; Graeme, Peter; James, Ifor; King, Thea
Conductors: Barenboim, Daniel
Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra; English Chamber Orchestra members; Orchestre de Paris

"Mozart had an affinity for the varied sonorities that could be conjured from wind instruments, and no group does the sound of this serenade more...continue...

Bach: St John Passion / Britten, Pears, Howell, Harper et al

2 CD / Decca / 1995-06-13

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Saint John Passion, BWV 245
Performers: Adeney, Richard; Aronowitz, Cecil; Ballardie, Quintin; Beers, Adrian; Brown, James; Burgess, Russell; Farrell, Timothy; Gatt, Martin; Graeme, Peter; Harper, Heather; Heath, Kenneth [Cello]; Hill, Jen...
Conductors: Britten, Benjamin
Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra

"Britten characteristically refuses to follow any set tradition, whether baroque, Victorian or whatever, and, with greater extremes of tempo than is common (often strikingly fast),...continue...

Elgar: Symphony no 1, Cockaigne Overture, etc / Barenboim

1 CD / Sony Classical / 1994-05-03

Works: Edward Elgar: Symphony no 1 in A flat major, Op. 55; Romance, for bassoon & orchestra (also arr. for cello & piano), Op. 62; Cockaigne Overture, Op. 40 "In London Town"
Performers: Gatt, Martin
Conductors: Barenboim, Daniel
Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra; London Philharmonic Orchestra