CD, Matthews, D (composer)
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An English Coronation, 1902-1953
RecommendedEdward VII, George V, George VI, Elizabeth II
Gabrieli, Paul McCreesh
Some may find the extensive spoken liturgy excessive but such is Simon Russell Beale’s compelling delivery that the sheer beauty of the words offers a musical diversion of a different kind.... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2019
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Diapason d’Or, September 2019, Nouveauté
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2019
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Vocal
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Choral
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Choral
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An essential and authentic document…by a musical master who should be much more widely celebrated for what he brings to today’s fractured cultural landscape. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2024, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. David Matthews: A Vision of the Sea
RecommendedBBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Jac van Steen
The two pieces at the heart of this release date from 2013, Matthews’s 60th year. They and the two shorter works reveal him at the height of his powers in both abstract and programmatic writing.... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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The NMC Songbook
RecommendedSopranos - 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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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th April 2009
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Contemporary
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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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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Contemporary
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2010, Editor's Choice
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A Garland For John McCabe
An anthology of tributes from 19 composers
Linda Merrick (clarinet), John Turner (recorder), Alistair Vennart (viola), Peter Lawson (piano)
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Vaughan Williams: The Blue Bird, Norfolk Rhapsodies & Music for an EFDS Masque
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates
Yates and the RSNO are admirably chipper exponents…Yates’s idiomatic orchestration of the composer’s handwritten piano score [for The Blue Bird] falls most agreeably on the ear…In summary, a... — More…
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Special offer. David Matthews: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 5
Rebecca Lea, Jess Dandy, James Robinson, Will Dawes, Kreutzer Quartet
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The music speaks so directly and involving that you're caught up in it from the start. …A Vision and a Journey lives up to its title impressively: taking Sibelius as an inspiration… was clearly... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Contemporary
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David Matthews: Cantiga
Jill Gomez (soprano)
Bournemouth Sinfonietta, East of England Orchestra, John Carewe, Malcolm Nabarro
Beautiful, individual things in all four pieces... Matthews is at his best when he's most unashamedly Romantic. — More…
