Browse: Blackford (composer)
This page lists all recordings composed by Richard Blackford (b.1954).
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Kuusisto: Symphony, Op. 39, Pictured Within & Birthday Variations for M.C.B.
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Big, hymnlike tunes emerge from straining and urgent textures, and like so much Finnish music, this is not afraid to look into the abyss. — More…
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Richard Blackford: La Sagrada Familia Symphony & Babel, A Cantata Rebecca Bottone (soprano), Alessandro Fisher (tenor), Stephen Gadd (baritone)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Ikon Singers & Ensemble, Richard Blackford, David Hill
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Richard Blackford: Mirror of Perfection; Vision of A Garden Elizabeth Watts, Roderick Williams, Ilon, Britten Sinfonia, Stephen Gadd, the Bach Choir, Philharmonia Orchestra, David Hill
Blackford’s 1996 Mirror of Perfection is a big-boned and breathtaking opener, while the more recent Vision of a Garden – based on Peter Johnstone’s ‘ICU Diaries’ written while in hospital with... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2022, Editor's Choice
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Violin Conversations
RecommendedMadeleine Mitchell (violin), Andrew Ball, Errollyn Wallen, Wendy Hiscocks, Nigel Clayton, Martin Butler, Kevin Malone, Howard Blake
Mitchell's diverse Violin Conversations is full of riches…a fresh and challenging recital, beautifully played. — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Richard Blackford: Songs of Nadia Anjuman Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Britten Sinfonia, Marcus Barcham Stevens
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Blackford’s meditation on beauty is both sophisticated and appealing and is thrillingly performed. But beware: the CD is only 24 minutes long. — More…
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
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Now Comes Beauty
commissions from The English Music Festival
Rupert Marshall-Luck (violin), Roderick Williams (baritone), David Owen Norris (piano)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Gavin Sutherland, Owain Arwel Hughes
A great deal of it is very enjoyable, and perhaps most encouraging of all is the sense that something genuinely new and fresh – rather than just superficially novel – could emerge from this kind... — More…
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Blackford: Niobe, Kalon & Blewbury Air Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin), Raphael Wallfisch (cello), Adrian Farmer
Albion Quartet, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Ben Gernon, Jiři Rožeň
Ranging from the Shostakovich-like angst of Niobe for violin and orchestra to the more Romantic wanderings of Blewbury Air for cello and piano, this is an excellent introduction to Blackford’s... — More…
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Richard Blackford: Mirror of Perfection & Choral Anthems Ying Huang (soprano) & Bo Skovhus (baritone), Olivia Robinson (solo soprano) & Iain Farrington (organ)
Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Ballard Lane Preparatory School Choir & Bournemouth Sinfonietta, BBC Singers, Richard Blackford, David Hill
Mirror of Perfection is a response to texts by St Francis of Assisi, some of which (notably Canticle of Love III) are surprisingly erotic in content. The scoring, for string orchestra plus horns... — More…
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Richard Blackford Babel, A Cantata, Part I - The Flood: IV. Do not fear the largeness of the showers Ikon Singers & Ensemble, David Hill, Stephen Gadd and Rebecca Bottone, Stephen Gadd
Ikon Singers & Ensemble, David Hill
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