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Hubert Parry, PARRY: Symphony …
Hubert Parry is best know for writing the music for "Jerusalem,… more »
Janet Baker, HANDEL: Giulio Ce…
Opera in English, a fine enterprise supported by the philanthropist and o… more »
Richard Hickox, VAUGHAN WILLIA…
To attend a Richard Hickox recording session is to see a consummate profe… more »
Hamilton Harty, HARTY: An Iris…
Hamilton Harty, one of the greatest musicians Ireland has produced, was a… more »
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, DV…
This recording not only does demonstrates the Chandos imprint's disce… more »
Granville Bantock, BANTOCK: He…
Granville Bantock spurned a career in the colonial Indian Civil Service a… more »
Ernest John Moeran, MOERAN: Sy…
I've known this fine work for a long time. Leslie Heward, a British c… more »
Ralph Vaughan Williams, VAUGHA…
I'm really torn between this wonderful and deeply affectionate portra… more »
Benjamin Britten, BRITTEN: Sin…
For a composer who so admired Mahler and was friendly with Shostakovich, … more »
René Jacobs, Mozart: Le…
This recording of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro was one of the musi… more »
Concerto Köln, Ren…
This was one of René Jacobs'early triumphs in the recording st… more »
Werner Güra, Jan Schultsz…
Franz Schubert's song-cycle "Die schöne Müllerin,… more »
Sir Colin Davis, London Sympho…
Everyone has a favourite planet — is it the big, oh-so-English tune… more »
Aram Il’yich Khachaturia…
Modest Mussorgsky wrote "Pictures at an Exhibition" in memory o… more »
Sir Colin Davis, London Sympho…
Along with the Cello Concerto, this work travels the globe representing t… more »
Alexandre Tharaud, piano, Rame…
This is something of an oddity, but has been a colossal best-seller in Fr… more »
Andreas Scholl, Ensemble 415, …
This was the recording that first opened my ears to the incomparably beau… more »
Geirr Tveitt, GRIEG: Piano Con…
Among the most famous of all recorded "shotgun weddings" is the… more »
Barry Tuckwell, London Symphon…
In the second part of Wagner's Ring cycle, "Die Walküre,… more »
Arnold Bax, BAX: Symphony No 6…
I owe my conversion to this great work to Jim Svejda of Los Angeles's… more »
Arthur Bliss, BLISS: Colour Sy…
I heard this symphony live for the first time in the summer of 2006 at th… more »
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester …
If you thought that Harmonia Mundi only focused on the smaller-scale deli… more »
Bernarda Fink, Freiburger Baro…
Jacobs and Haydn: they just go so well together. Here, we have two deligh… more »
Paul Lewis, Beethoven: Sonates…
This disc demonstrates the wisdom and courage of Harmonia Mundi's A… more »