Beamish
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impressive, both in the quality of the playing and the variety of the music…in Ysaye's Third Sonata she yields nothing to the finest recordings in her accuracy and passion, the recording capturing... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2017, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2017, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Winner - Instrumental
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Ventris brings absolute technical assurance and a vivid sense of line...Among the many excellent more contemporary works, Amanda Feery’s Boreal s especially powerful...In all, beautifully performed... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2023, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2023, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Premiere
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New. House of Wonder: Sally Beamish celebrates 70 years
Sally Beamish (viola), Ryan Corbett (accordion), Imogen Whitehead (trumpet), Joseph Havlat (piano), Stephanie Irvine (harp), Peter Thomson (speaker), Rosalind Ventris (viola)
Curated to mark Sally Beamish's 70th birthday, House of Wonder offers an engaging portrait of her wide-ranging and fruitful musical life. ..Beamish's generous foregrounding of her personal world,... —
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In Winter's House: Christmas With Tenebrae
RecommendedJoseph Edward, Grace Davidson (soprano), Joshua Davidson, Victoria Meteyard (soprano), Martha McLorinan (mezzo-soprano), Tenebrae, Nigel Short
Some might prefer Britten’s Ceremony of Carols to be a little rowdier, but this is otherwise a technically superb display of largely unfamiliar, and imaginatively chosen, festive music. One... —
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Building a Library, December 2024, Recommended Recording (A Ceremony of Carols)
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The pianist does full justice to the five women whose works on this disc add up to one of the most unhackneyed, unpredictable, well-constructed, musically diverse and interpretatively gratifying... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2024, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Beethoven/5, Vol. 2
Jonathan Biss (piano), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Omer Meir Wellber
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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. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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it's not long before Sally Beamish strikes gold, brilliantly reconfiguring Debussy's textures with string harmonics, piano trills, and a dizzyingly wide range of colours. —
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Isserlis finds wonderful, darkly smouldering tone and line for Ravel's Two Melodies (originally for soprano voice) and the three Ernest Bloch pieces. He excels, too, in the busier idiom of Prokofiev's... —
