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Augusta Read Thomas: Selected Works for Orchestra
Christine Brandes (soprano), Baird Dodge (violin)
DePaul University Symphony, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra MusicNOW Ensemble, Chamber Orchestra, Southern Methodist University Wind Ensemble, Cliff Colnot, Pierre Boulez, Oliver Knussen, Jack Delaney
The performances are as persuasive as expected given the involvement of such as Pierre Boulez and Oliver Knussen...One can only await Vol. 2 of this series with impatience. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Contemporary
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George Benjamin: Written on Skin
Recommendedand Duet for piano and orchestra
Christopher Purves (The Protector), Barbara Hannigan (Agnès), Bejun Mehta (First Angel/Boy), Victoria Simmonds (Second Angel/Marie), Allan Clayton (Third Angel/John), Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, George Benjamin
[Purves] expresses a brooding pride and menace that makes your skin crawl. [Hannigan] makes an electrifying transformation from doe-like submissiveness to sexual predator, and the powerfully... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Finalist - Contemporary
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Premiere Award
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George Benjamin: Lessons in Love and Violence
RecommendedStéphane Degout (King), Barbara Hannigan (Isabel), Gyula Orendt (Gaveston/Stranger), Peter Hoare (Mortimer), Samuel Boden (Boy/Young King)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, George Benjamin
The singing—and the orchestra, conducted by the composer himself—is flawless...powerful singing and a balanced execution of sound give voice to a dramatic libretto and an arresting score, making... — More…
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Opera
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Opera Recording
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Augusta Read Thomas: Terpsichore's Box of Dreams Grossman Ensemble, John Corkill, Ian Ding, Kyle Flens, Cynthia Yeh, Phil Pierick, Fredonia Wind Ensemble, Nadina Mackie, Alexander Hersh, Tom Hicks, Adam Rosenblatt, Garrett Arney, Nonoka Mizukami, Tim Weiss, Stefan Asbury, Paula Holcomb
Her complex, imaginative scores verily zing with life and colour, while readily charting profound emotional depths…Beautifully performed and recorded, the whole selection has the feeling of... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2024, Recording of the Month
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Philip Sawyers: Cello Concerto & Symphony No. 2
Maja Bogdanovic (cello)
Orchestra Of The Swan, Steinberg Duo: Louisa Stonehill (violin) & Nicholas Burns (piano), Kenneth Woods
performed here with thrilling conviction and formidable assurance...Sawyers's excitingly integrated music marries a genuine lyrical impulse to a genuine thematic substance and marvellously invigorating... — More…
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Sawyers: Double Concerto for Violin & Cello
Daniel Rowland (violin/viola), Maja Bogdanović (cello)
English Symphony Orchestra, English String Orchestra, Kenneth Woods
The best piece is the simplest and shortest: Remembrance, again from 2020, a memorial for a friend and colleague’s late parents, but eloquent enough to serve us all well in dark times . It ’s... — More…
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George Benjamin: Antara
Recommendedand works by Boulez & Jonathan Harvey
Penelope Walmsley-Clark (soprano)
London Sinfonietta, George Benjamin
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Gramophone Awards, 1990, Winner - Contemporary
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Steve Elcock: Symphony No. 8; Violin Concerto Zoë Beyers, English Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Woods
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Philip Sawyers: Concertos
Alexander Sitkovetsky, Simon Desbruslais, English Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Woods
Sawyers’s thrilling orchestral music truly captivates, aided and abetted by pitch-perfect soloists Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin) and Simon Desbruslais (trumpet) and the ESO. — More…
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[Grand Rapids] stands up as a remarkable achievement for a student composer of barely 21. There's some Shostakovich in there too, and, like his models, Sawyer's discourse is well paced and logical,... — More…
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