Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
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Special offer. Elliott Carter: Late Works
RecommendedPierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Colin Currie (percussion), Isabelle Faust (violin), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Oliver Knussen
brimming with youthful energy and Haydnesque, impish wit...Aimard brings fluent delicacy to the concertos and the orchestral soundings. He is matched in filigree precision by co-protagonists,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th December 2017
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Jury Award - Premiere
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Orchestral
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Tansy Davies: Nature
RecommendedHuw Watkins (piano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Karen Kamensek, Oliver Knussen
Shamanism and the human fascination with divine energy is a recurring theme in Tansy Davies’s work. The piano loosely represents a spiritual intermediary in Nature (2012)...Davies characterises... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Howard Skempton: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
RecommendedChristopher Yates (viola), Roderick Williams (baritone)
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Martyn Brabbins
[Skempton] judges the balance between reiteration and variety to perfection, while the typical Skempton traits – clarity, deceptive simplicity and apparently familiar yet fresh and capricious... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th May 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2017, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Contemporary
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Julian Anderson: Book of Hours
Lamberto Coccioli & Scott Wilson (electronics)
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Oliver Knussen, Martyn Brabbins & Sakari Oramo
The dazzling Book of Hours, composed for the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, is one of Anderson's greatest achievements so far, building from the simplest beginning - the first four notes... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Contemporary
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2006, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Barry, G: The Importance of Being Earnest
Barbara Hannigan (Cecily), Peter Tantsits (Jack Worthing), Joshua Bloom (Algernon), Katalin Károlyi (Gwendoline), Hilary Summers (Miss Prism), Alan Ewing (Lady Bracknell), Benjamin Bevan (Lane/Merriman), Joshua Hart (Dr Chasuble)
BCMG, Thomas Adès
Surely this is not only the best operatic treatment of Oscar Wilde since Salome, but also one of the few absolutely essential operas of the last 20 years...This performances features at least... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2015, Opera Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Opera Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2014, Editor's Choice
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There are few more fluent and adept composers at work these days than the Dane Poul Ruders... Four Dances in One Movement is a perfect example of his bright, biting and impulsive art, a play... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Chamber Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Chamber Finalist
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Special offer. Music of Elliott Carter - Vol 8
Martin Owen (horn), Leigh Melrose (baritone), Rolf Schulte (violin) & Fred Sherry (cello), William Purvis (horn), Peter Kolkay (bassoon), Jon Nelson (trumpet), Donald Palma (contrabass), Hsin-Yun Huang (viola), Simon Boyar (marimba), Charles Neidich (clarinet), Lucy Shelton (soprano) & Charles...
Textures are pared down to their essence, a quality exemplified in the abundance of perfectly turned little miniatures for one or two instruments...All these things, whether tiny and serene... —
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Contemporary
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Edmund Finnis: The Air, Turning
Eloisa-Fleur Thorn (violin), Mark Simpson (clarinet), Víkingur Ólafsson (piano), Benjamin Bellman (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, London Contemporary Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Ilan Volkov, Richard Baker, Andrew Gourlay
The music of Edmund Finnis invites rather than demands attention – and the more it is given, the more its gifts unfold… Each work on this exquisite debut disc is, in effect, a constantly changing... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Winner - Premiere
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[The Rumpelstiltskin Suite] conveys uninhibited grotesquerie through obsessive rhythmic patterning and boldly differentiated instrumental colouring...This performance by BCMG under Martyn Brabbins... —
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Emily Howard: Torus
Vimbayi Kaziboni, Julian Warburton, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and Gabriella Teychenné,
BBC Philharmonic, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Mark Wigglesworth, Martyn Brabbins
These recordings sit on the edge of discomfort, relishing in the stark contrasts of timbres available to an orchestra. Oscillating between these extremes, this is music-making at its most dynamic. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Contemporary
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