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The Kreutzer Quartet bring a transparent, wiry sound to In Flight Music, filling its carefully-wrought textures with light…the Fourth Quartet is more abstract, thornier stuff – a moving memorial... —
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Donnacha Dennehy - Elastic Harmonic
Joanna MacGregor (piano), Tatiana Koleva (percussion) & Darragh Morgan (violin)
Crash Ensemble, National Symphony Orchestra & ensemble Intégrales, Gavin Maloney
Streetwalker includes this composer’s characteristic mixture of urban sounds and tight, multi-layered rhythms. But there is nothing routine about it. Subtle and unusual pitch-bending techniques... —
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An evening with Rex Lawson, king of the British pianola, is always interesting, often fascinating, never less than fun —
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Simon Holt: Boots of Lead
Ulrich Heinen (cello), Rolf Hind (piano), Rinat Shaham (mezzo)
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Martyn Brabbins, Sir Simon Rattle
A technically immaculate disc, performed with tremendous flair … it serves to reinforce Holt’s position as one of the very best British composers writing today —
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Pastures New - Sampler
William Howard (piano), Alexander Baillie (cello), Andrew Ball (piano), Mary Wiegold (soprano), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Noriko Kawai (piano), Jane Manning (soprano), Peter Serkin (piano), Martin Robertson (saxophone), Christopher van Kampen (cello), Peter Pears (tenor), BBC Symphony Orchestra,...
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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,... —
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Robert Saxton: A Yardstick to the Stars
John McCabe (piano), Paul Silverthorne (viola) and John Constable (piano), Teresa Cahill (soprano), Alun Darbyshire (oboe) and John McCabe (piano), Ian Pace (piano)
Brunel Ensemble, Christopher Austin
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Gerald Barry - Chamber Music
Noriko Kawai (piano), Nua Nos (piano), Michael D'Arcy (violin)
Dairine Ni Mheadhra
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