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Huw Watkins: Flute Concerto, Violin Concerto and Symphony
Adam Walker (flute), Alina Ibragimova (violin)
Hallé, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth, Edward Gardner
Cast in the conventional three movements, [the Flute Concerto] dances through a musical landscape full of light and shade. Its invigorating sense of pace and momentum is beautifully caught by... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Julian Anderson: Book of Hours
Lamberto Coccioli & Scott Wilson (electronics)
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Oliver Knussen, Martyn Brabbins & Sakari Oramo
The dazzling Book of Hours, composed for the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, is one of Anderson's greatest achievements so far, building from the simplest beginning - the first four notes... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Contemporary
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2006, Editor's Choice
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Robert Simpson: Symphony No. 3
RecommendedBernard Walton (clarinet)
London Symphony Orchestra, The Aeolian String Quartet, Jascha Horenstein
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Building a Library, October 2006, Highly Recommended
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Britten on Film
Simon Russell Beale (narrator) & Mary Carewe (soprano)
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus & Choir of King
Edwards’ Boys School, Birmingham, Martyn Brabbins
Britten's short period with the GPO Film Unit and other similar organisations proved to be key training for his musico-dramatic skills. The performances, by the BCMG and assorted choirs and... — More…
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The first ideas for the Third Concerto for Orchestra came during a trip through South America: there are sound pictures of Lake Titicaca, riotous New Year's Day celebrations in the Bay of Bahia,... — More…
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Spark Catchers
Roderick Williams, Tai Murray, Chi-chi Nwanoku, Isata Kanneh-Mason
Chineke! Orchestra & Chorus, Kevin John Edusei, Wayne Marshall, Anthony Parnther
Titular track The Spark Catchers was recorded at the BBC Proms in 2017. Hannah Kendall’s sound whirlpool takes its inspiration from Lemn Sissay’s poem of the same name. There is an itchy brooding... — More…
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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It is good to have [these] excellent recordings of two of the composer's major orchestral works resurrected from their Collins Classics grave by the ever welcome new-music specialist label NMC — More…
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Holloway, R: Concerto for Orchestra No. 2
RecommendedStefan Asbury (assistant conductor)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Knussen
A fascinating disc: the Concerto isn't quite like anything else I know, and in every aspect NMC have served it well. It deserves the widest possible hearing. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1994, Winner - Contemporary
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Oliver Knussen: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3
Elaine Barry, Linda Hirst (sopranos) & Michael Collins, Dward Pillinger, Ian Mitchell (clarinets)
The Nash Ensemble, London Sinfonietta, Philharmonia Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas & Oliver Knussen
Here is the essence of him: his precocious song-cycle symphony (No 2) and arresting Symphony No 3 (performed by the Philharmonia)...and that locus classicus of ensemble virtuosity, the five-minute... — More…
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