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Always elegant, but heroic and heartfelt, Finley is the gentleman-officer where Luxon was the lusty sea-dog. Finley has a way of homing straight in to the centre of the notes for niaxirnurn power without sacrificing nobility. Luxon's slight roughness around the stave lent him a marvellous,...

I'm thrilled with the reception for this recording, and initially surprised. I think that Stanford had got lost. He was largely overlooked during that great spate of Benjamin Britten and Vaughan Williams recordings that occurred in the 1980s and '90s. These are fairly large pieces and I think...