Browse: Chamber, Watkins, H (composer)

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... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

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]... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

What strikes you most about Huw Watkins's music is its natural ease. Lyricism flourishes, and tonal echoes are exposed alongside chromatic scrunches and abrasive textures. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

An engagingly played programme of works mostly by little-known East European composers, generally sounding no more modern than Prokofiev or even Enescu — BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

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... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2018 More…