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Turning World
Shiva Feshareki, Kit Downes (piano), James Bulley, BBC Singers, London Contemporary Orchestra, Sofi Jeannin, Robert Ames
Feshareki’s Aetherworld is a bold and fascinating Josquin-inspired sonic landscape, melding overtone singing, organ and real-time electronics. The composer and turntablist also helped restore... —
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Finnissy ultimately transcends the quartet genre...At times, too, you can hear the influence of Haydn, as if through frosted glass, notably in the impish pizzicato passage about a third of the... —
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Aiseag - EP
Aonghas MacNeacail (narrator), Christine MacDonald (narrator), Mary Ann Kennedy (vocals), Scott Macmillan (guitar), Colin Grant (fiddle), Cape Breton (fiddle), Angus MacKenzie (pipe), Brodie Jarvie (double bass), Allan MacDonald (percussion)
Inverness Gaelic Choir, Scottish Festival Orchestra
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Clare O'Connell: Light Flowing
Clare O'Connell (cello), Eleanor Turner (harp), Marianne Schofield (double bass)
The album is framed by two short triptychs by Edmund Finnis: Three Solos has echoes of Bach in the double-stops of the first movement, before a more restless exploration of pizzicato in the... —
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Anthony Gilbert - On Beholding A Rainbow
Anthony Holden (violin), Susan Bickley (soprano)
RNCM Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, RNCM Wind Ensemble, Gary Walker, Andrew Davis, Clark Rundell
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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... —
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Alexander Goehr: Colossos or Panic
Claire Booth & Hilary Summers
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BCMG, ASKO Ensemble, Oliver Knussen
Knussen directs performances that are as far from routine as it's possible to get, with wonderfully vivid results. —
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Special offer. Thea Musgrave: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge & Green
Jake Gardner (baritone) & Gayle Hunnicutt (narrator)
London Sinfonietta, Red Byrd, Fretwork & Scottish Ensemble, Thea Musgrave
As the victim, Jake Gardner is heroic and ardent, if not ideally lyrical; the London Sinfonietta, under Musgrave herself, plays with razor-sharp precision. The original 1981 studio broadcast... —
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Goehr: Behold the Sun
Moray Welsh (cello), Jeanine Thames (soprano)
London Sinfonietta and the RLPO, David Atherton and Oliver Knussen
Moments of ear-catching, rarefied beauty —
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