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Published in 1915, the rousing 'O thou, the central orb' sets words by the Oxford clergyman and hymnologist Henry Ramsden Bramley, who wrote his Petrarchian sonnet at the behest of Sir Frederick Ouseley so it could be used as a new text for Orlando Gibbons's 1619 anthem 'O all true faithful hearts'.

Wood adopted an uncomplicated ternary form for his interpretation of the poem, the outer sections deploying a muscular diatonicism in A flat major, while the central paragraph explores a wider range of tonalities with excursions to F minor, D flat and C flat major.

From The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge's new album, 'Let all the world in every corner sing'.

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This ballade 'in a Bohemian style' for cello and piano harks back to the composer's Jewish roots, although at the time of composition Moscheles was a musical court favourite of Queen Victoria in London. With its high-spirited alternation of mood and speeds it can be seen as a cheerful 'dumka'. It's the first single from Steven Isserlis' upcoming album, 'Schumann & Moscheles: 1851 - Sonatas'.

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The latest solo album from Marc-André Hamelin promises a rollercoaster ride through works by some of the twentieth century's great musical mavericks, including Hamelin's own fast and furious 'Hexensabbat'. Not for the faint-hearted; and from The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, a selection of ten favourite anthems from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Featuring a line-up of composers from Basil Harwood and Charles Wood to Jonathan Dove and Matthew Martin, this is an album which anyone with an interest in Anglican church music should hear.

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Benefiting from 'stunningly precise fingerwork' (BBC Record Review), the virtuoso piano transcriptions on Andrey Gugnin's new album of Russian ballet suites take the listener on a thrilling ride through four nineteenth- and twentieth-century favourite ballet scores.

The suites in question are drawn from 'The Nutcracker', 'Sleeping Beauty', 'Petrushka' and 'The Firebird'. All make formidable technical demands of the player, demands which are easily met by Andrey. Gramophone magazine concurs, 'it's all but impossible to get enough'). We're delighted it's our Record of the Month for October.

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'Expectans expectavi' is the high-water mark of Wood's Romantic church music. Its intense, yearning diatonic language, epitomized by the opening wistful lyricism of the organ, the rich dominant-thirteenth harmony and the plaintive opening for the choir, is deeply memorable.

Equally adroit is the manner in which Wood integrates the opening organ theme and dominant thirteenth into the choral material. A prudently crafted tonal plan and a sonata form full of dexterous variation serve perfectly to underpin the introspective warmth of Sorley's verse.

From The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge's forthcoming album, 'Let all the world in every corner sing'.

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The first single from Luís Duarte's album dedicated to Portuguese composer Fernando Lopes-Graça: a beguiling but somewhat sorrowful 'Romance of Santa Iria of Mação', one of 11 'Glosses' on traditional Portuguese songs.

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"The less said about my own 'Hexensabbat' the better, since I want to invite listeners to form their own picture of what is happening therein. The long passage towards the end superimposes three Dies iraes at different speeds—really the most demanding passage altogether. (While practising it, I sometimes wished I could avail myself of some potion from a bubbling cauldron to help me play it better!) And for the very ending, the horror of it, I make no apologies. For better or worse, it seemed to me to be the only possible denouement."—Marc-André Hamelin

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For many listeners, Herbert Howells's choral output will always be associated with his sizeable and significant contribution to the Anglican tradition, but his settings of secular texts should not be overlooked. This album, by Ikon and David Hill, offers a welcome introduction to these, including two works newly arranged for this recording by pianist Iain Farrington.

'Howells: Sine nomine & other secular choral works' is out now.

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We're delighted to send a Happy Birthday to … us, in our 45th year!

1st October 2025 marks 45 years to the day since an advertisement appeared in Gramophone magazine.

'This month sees the introduction of a new label devoted to the presentation of fine, varied and interesting repertoire, engineered to the highest present-day standards, attractively presented and priced. The first six releases are listed below, and further titles will be issued regularly. We will not specialise … except in good records—and the repertoire will cover all fields and periods, from 'early' music to the present day'.

Now, over 2,000 recordings later, we'd like to send our very best wishes to the artists, producers and engineers who have worked with and supported us over the years, to all our colleagues in this industry, and, of course, to YOU, our loyal customers, without whom we would not be where we are today. Thank you! ♥️

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Many congratulations to Mishka Rushdie Momen for her well-deserved success at the Critics' Circle Music Awards in recognition of her 2024 release, 'Reformation' 👏👏👏

📷 Elliott Franks

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