Bantock: Omar Khayyam
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Bantock: Omar Khayyam
Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Toby Spence & Roderick Williams / BBC Symphony Chorus & BBC Symphony Orchestra, Vernon Handley
[ Chandos SACD / 3 Hybrid SACD ]
Release Date: Monday 27 August 2007
This item is only available to us via Special Import.
"It's a fascinating rediscovery on a huge scale, especially in the detail and depth of SACD surround-sound, seductively performed by Handley's forces, Toby Spence appropriately poetic and Catherine Wyn-Rogers sensuous." BBC Music Five Stars
"This first recording reflects the detail and passion of Vernon Handley's championing of Bantock's kaleidoscopic output, and Stephen Jackson ensures that the choral input is similarly lively and fresh. Toby Spence brings a bright mix of Italianate slancio and English declamation to the Poet, combining well with Catherine Wyn-Rogers's more controlled reading of the Beloved in substantial (and Parsifal-like) duets in Parts 1 and 3 (a highlight and a good startingpoint for samplers). Chandos's sound is suitably lush, occasionally at the expense of the chorus's diction. It's what recordings should be for, and should encourage future festival performances." Gramophone
