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Offer, David Matthews: Winter Passions
Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Stephan Loges (baritone)
The Nash Ensemble, Lionel Friend
The writing has many of David Matthews's familiar strengths: a fine sensuous imagination, adventurous harmony that makes clear aural sense, an equally clear sense of organic development of ideas...It's... — More…
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Offer, English Violin Duos
Retorica: Philippa Mo & Harriet Mackenzie (violins)
Both of these works [the Moeran and the Rawsthorne] benefit, as does the recital as a whole, from superbly responsive playing by Harriet Mackenzie and Philippa Mo - who project the music's often... — More…
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Offer, David Matthews: Piano Trios
Gemma Rosefield (cello)
Leonore Piano Trio
Matthews describes the Leonore Piano Trio’s lively and evocative performance as ‘definitive’. Their cellist, Gemma Rosefield, gives equally searching accounts of Journeying Songs — More…
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Vaughan Williams: The Blue Bird, Norfolk Rhapsodies & Music for an EFDS Masque
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates
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Sopranos - Claire Booth, Ailish Tynan, Elizabeth Atherton
Mezzo-sopranos - Susan Bickley, Loré Lixenberg, Jean Rigby
Countertenors - James Bowman, Michael Chance, Andrew Watts
Tenors - Andrew Kennedy, Daniel Norman, Benjamin Hulett
Baritones - Stefan Loges, Roderick Williams,...
…anyone listening to these discs will find many things to savour… It is, inevitably an eclectic mix, but, as in any well-planned song recital, the progressions and juxtapositions are continually... — More…
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Tecchler's Cello: From Cambridge to Rome
Guy Johnston (cello), Tom Poster (piano), Magnus Johnston (violin), Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello)
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Stephen Cleobury, Carlo Rizzari
Barrière’s amiable Sonata for Two Cellos in G major unites [Johnston] with fellow BBC Young Musicians of the Year Sheku Kanneh-Mason. It’s a delectably nuanced performance, capped by a finale... — More…
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David Matthews - Symphonies Nos. 2 & 6
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Recorded at BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff Bay, 12-14 February 2009
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jac Van Steen
David Matthews's music is full of paradoxes - all of them positive. Its expressive manner and intellectual matter seem easy enough to grasp at first hearing but the openness is deceptive. There's... — More…
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David Matthews: Concertos
Philippe Graffin (violin), Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra;, Orchestra Nova, George Vass
The extensive Vivacissimo finale [of the First Violin Concerto]...provides the most breathtaking bravura on the disc, superbly negotiated by Philippe Graffin, whose beauty of tone in the slower,... — More…
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Piano Quintets by David Matthews and Dmitri Shostakovich
Martin Cousin (piano)
Villiers String Quartet
this account of the Russian’s Opus 57, composed in 1940, from Martin Cousin and the Villiers Quartet doesn’t force the pace or the emotional content, but rather lets the score speak for itself... — More…
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Offer, David Matthews: Music for Piano
Laura Mikkola (piano)
Orchestra Nova, George Vass
This Sonata is virtuoso music and Laura Mikkola is equal to it. Matthews describes her as ‘a marvellous exponent of my music’ and this performance proves the point. It is an exciting work and... — More…
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