01 - 03 Edward Elgar (arr. David Matthews): String Quartet in E minor, op.83 [24'46]
04 - 07 Malcolm Arnold (arr. David Matthews): Sonata for Strings after the String Quartet No. 2, op.118 [26'59]
08 Robert Simpson (arr. composer): String Quartet No. 3 in E major - II. Allegro deciso [12'00]
Orchestra of St Paul’s conducted by Ben Palmer
Somm Céleste SOMMCD0145 [recorded March 2014; issued 2015]
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Recording venue: St. Mary’s Church, Walthamstow, London
Recording Engineer: Ben Connellan; Producer: Siva Oke
08 Edward Elgar: The Pipes of Pan (1899, orch. 1902) [4'03]
09 Edward Elgar: The River, op.60 no.1(1910, orch. 1912) [3'20]
10 - 14 Edward Elgar: Sea Pictures, op.37 (1899) [22'29]
15 - 20 Ivor Gurney (orch. Jeremy Dibble): Lights Out (1918-1925) [15'03]
21 - 25 Michael Hurd: Shore Leave (1962) [10'54]
Roderick Williams- baritone, BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Martin Yates
Dutton Epoch CDLX7243 [recorded October & November 2009; issued 2010]
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Recording venue: The Colloseum, Watford, UK
Recording engineer: Dexter Newman; Producer: Michael Ponder
01 - 05 Edward Elgar: Sea Pictures, op.37 [22'16]
06 - 08 Ernest Chausson: Poème de l'amour et de la mer, op.19 [26'59]
09 - 12 Victorin Joncières (1839 - 1903): La Mer * [15'03]
Marie-Nicole Lemieux- alto, Choeur de l’Opéra National de Bordeaux *, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine conducted by Paul Daniel
Erato 9029542433 [recorded October 2018; issued 2019]
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Recording venue: Auditorium Bordeaux Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France
Recording engineer: Hugues Deschaux; Producer: Daniel Zalay
01 - 10 The Music Makers op.69 * [38'51]
11 - 15 Sea Pictures, op.37 [23'18]
Felicity Palmer- contralto, London Symphony Chorus *, London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Richard Hickox
EMI CDM565126-2 [recorded May 1986; first issued 1987]
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Recording venue: Watford Town Hall (Colloseum), UK
Recording engineer and Producer: Brian Culverhouse
In his Elgar's Sea Pictures feature in last month's Gramophone magazine, Andrew Farach-Cohen, not unnaturally, plumped for Janet Baker's recording with John Barbirolli as his top choice. But he also included this recording by Felicity Palmer with Richard Hickox in his top four as The Luxurious Choice and also had good words for the Canadian Marie-Nicole Lemieux with Paul Daniel and this rare recording by a male voice by Roderick Williams with Martin Yates. The latter is one of my favourites along with the Baker and Alice Coote with Mark Elder.
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