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Verdict: Slow-burning break-up ballads Rating: Five years ago, Laura Mvula seemed set to become a huge star. The Birmingham singer's second album, The Dreaming Room, won a prestigious Ivor Novello award, and she became a firm favourite of Elton John and Prince. The latter covered one of her songs, Green Garden, and offered regular advice before his death in 2016. But wider success proved elusive, leaving the classically-trained Mvula fearing for her future. Was her piano-led soul and jazz too complex for the charts? Had that notoriously difficult second album derailed her career and, as she ...

(5 out of 5 stars) "I fell asleep at a performance of Vaughan Williams' "A Sea Symphony" some years ago. It is a LONG piece. I would not recommend it as a first Vaughan Williams purchase, unless you are a particular fan of choral music. On the other hand, I couldn't ignore it. Robert Shaw (America's "Mr. Choral Music") described this symphony on the radio as "the most beautiful piece of choral music written in the 20th century". Wow! That covers 100 years, you know. And I deeply enjoy other pieces by RVW, including his Four Hymns and Five Mystical Songs. So I bought this CD ...

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Introducing new recordings from Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Barnabás Kelemen, Nicolas Altstaedt, Alexander Lonquich, Gothic Voices, Thomas Trotter and Andrew Von Oeyen