Chamber, Watkins, H (composer)
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It’s an eclectic mix that combines nostalgia with a modern, shuffle-play sense of adventure. As Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s Bloom finds luminosity in the changing seasons, Huw Watkins’s Arietta suspends... —
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2021, Chamber Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Winner - Premiere
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As album titles go, Reflection is pretty bland. But there is nothing timid about the playing of that feisty violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen and her excellent piano partner Huw Watkins. The music... —
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Legacy: A Tribute to Dennis Brain
Ben Goldscheider (french horn), Huw Watkins (piano), James Gilchrist (tenor)
The magic starts with Huw Watkins’s purpose-built Lament for horn and piano, a wonderful beginner’s guide to the expressive colour range possible when a horn is allowed to sing, rage, and sigh…Watkins’s... —
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Sea Eagle (works for horn)
Richard Watkins (horn), Mark Padmore (tenor) & Huw Watkins (piano), Paul Watkins (cello) & Huw Watkins (piano), Laura Samuel (violin) & Huw Watkins (piano), Paul Watkins (cello)
The Nash Ensemble
The quality of the works on offer here should make this release appeal well beyond the ranks of new music aficionados; and the near-flawless performances provide their own recommendation...[Watkins's]... —
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Osostowicz and Tong’s interpretative style – patient, affectionate, warmly conversational, sensitive to harmonic detail – reminds me of Schneiderhan and Kempff’s classic mid-50’s set…They may... —
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Special offer. A Different World
Contemporary works for solo violin and violin & piano
Diana Galvydyte (violin) & Christopher Guild (piano)
An engagingly played programme of works mostly by little-known East European composers, generally sounding no more modern than Prokofiev or even Enescu —
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Special offer. Smetana, Ravel and Watkins: Piano Trios
Antje Weithaas (violin), Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (cello), Huw Watkins (piano), Florian Donderer (violin), Tanja Tetzlaff (cello), Lars Vogt (piano), Sebastian Manz (clarinet), Florian Donderer (viola)
these performances from the 2011 [Spannungen] festival feature a mixing and matching of personnel, with inspiration generally running high in these three trios captured on three successive days....It... —
