Martyn Brabbins
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This is a really good performance [of the Pastoral]. On one level Martyn Brabbins is superbly alert to the intricacies of the musical texture. After on hearing I got the score and listened again... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th January 2020
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, Orchestral Choice
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These readings have the intentness of conviction, which the still underrated Symphony No. 1 in particular richly deserves…In approaching Tippett’s teaming textures, Brabbins and his producer... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th December 2017
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2018
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The music fair kidnaps the listener's attention at the outset and does not random it until the gripping, wholly satisfying close...The performance by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales is stunning... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Contemporary
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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 5 & Scenes adapted from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress
Kitty Whately (mezzo-soprano), Christopher Bowen (tenor), Tom Raskin (tenor), Andrew Rupp (bass), Jamie W Hall (bass), Marcus Farnsworth (baritone), Georgina Wheatley (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, Martyn Brabbins
Brabbins and his musicians generally give a glowing and contemplative account of the Fifth Symphony (1943), its colours well captured in producer Andrew Keener’s fine recording. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Walton: Violin Concerto, Partita & Hindemith Variations
RecommendedAnthony Marwood (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Anthony Marwood’s un-flashy individualism seems to be operating at an opposite pole to the Heifetz way, and generates memorable results of its own. While Marwood has all the virtuosity that... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th July 2017
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Record Review, 1st July 2017, Recording of the Week
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A recording like this practically recommends itself—a feast for the ear and the soul, not to be missed under any circumstances — More…
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Composer, scholar, painter, eye surgeon, William Wallace's Lisztian creations roar back to late Romantic life in these full-blooded performances. While Villon is the most striking, all are worthwhile. — More…
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Tippett: Symphonies Nos 3, 4 & B flat
RecommendedRachel Nicholls (soprano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
What the new accounts have are the virtues of Brabbins’s versions of Tippett’s First and Second…: a purposeful intentness, with care for dynamics and rhythmic precision…though with no lack of... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Brian: Symphony No. 1 'Gothic'
RecommendedSusan Gritton (soprano), Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano), Peter Auty (tenor), Alastair Miles (bass) & David Goode (organ)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Concert Orchestra, The Bach Choir, BBC National Chorus of Wales, Brighton Festival Chorus, CBSO Youth Chorus, Côr Caerdydd, Eltham...
the best [recording] yet. There's an ongoing buzz of Proms atmosphere that grips from start to finish; and the recorded sound succeeds phenomenally at somehow fitting Brian's hugest climaxes... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th November 2011
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2012, Editor's Choice
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William Wallace: Creation Symphony
& other orchestral works
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Another Hyperion winner — More…
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