Browse: Instrumental, 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…

Watkins’s cycle shares Britten’s ability to meld text and musical gesture with an acuity seemingly effortless, almost plucked ready-formed out of the air...An exquisite release touched with poignant... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Unsurprisingly, refinement abounds, though sometimes at the expense of ‘bite’. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2019, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) 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…

A fascinating survey of contemporary (or near contemporary) piano works, played by expert interpreters, including several of the composers themselves. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2014, 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…

one notices Keziah's special affinity with the quieter, more introverted shadings, and her poised, painstaking approach to elucidating structure…an imaginatively programmed, winningly played... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…