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Gordon Crosse: Memories of Morning
Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Alexander Baillie (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
A CD full of glowering and unremittingly intense music... Brilliant performances. —
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Simon Bainbridge: Ad ora incerta
Susan Bickley (mezzo) and Kim Walker (bassoon)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Nash Ensemble, Martyn Brabbins
The BBC Symphony Orchestra plays beuatifully, fully cognisant of the weight of the message being conveyed... Required listening if ever there was. —
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Edwin Roxburgh - Solos and Duos
Sulki Yu (violin), Michael Cox (flute) & Nigel Clayton (piano), Dimitri Murrath (viola), Edwin Roxburgh (oboe) & Lawrence Casserley (electronics), Marie McLeod (cello), Nicholas Reed (percussion), Hsin-Yun Huang & Dimitri Murrath (violas)
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Richard Barrett - Negatives
Friedrich Gauwerky (cello), Brett Kelly (trombone), Peter Neville (percussion)
ELISION Ensemble
Extended by the more recent Codex I, which takes improvisational strategies to an extreme without abandoning its conceptual focus, this disc is a persuasive and also representative way into... —
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Peter Wiegold: Earth & Stars
Melinda Maxwell (cor anglais), Juliet Fraser (soprano) & Martin Butler (piano)
notes inégales, Southbank Sinfonia, Peter Wiegold
Performances are unfailingly attuned to the music's balance between precision and intuition. Martin Butler is a sensitive accompanist in the songs, while his pertinent account of working with... —
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Rob Keeley: Songs, Chimes & Dances
Tim Holmes (saxophone) & Rob Keeley (piano), Rob Keeley (piano), Andrew Sparling (clarinet), Robin Michael (cello) & Rob Keeley (piano), Jonathan Leathwood (guitar), Richard Watkins (horn), Darragh Morgan (violin) & Mary Dullea (piano), Melinda Maxwell (oboe) & Rob Keeley (piano),...
In a musical age of gesture and ideology, Keeley (b1960) is a composer who quietly continues the classical art of putting note against note. These seven instrumental and chamber pieces, none... —
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although Barrett's music is indeed dark, it is also many other things, often at the same time: playful, unnerving and often surprisingly transparent...Composer and performers seem wonderfully... —
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Elliott Carter: 103rd Birthday Concert
Rolf Schulte (violin), Fred Sherry (cello), Richard O'Neill (viola), Virgil Blackwell (bass clarinet), Bridget Kibbey (harp), Marie Tachouet (flute), Peter Evans (trumpet), Jim Pugh (trombone), Stephen Gosling (piano), Mike Truesdell (percussion), Peter Kolkay (bassoon), Mike Truesdell (marimba),...
The performances by a cast of Carter devotees are flawless —
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Philip Cashian: The House Of Night
Christopher Redgate (oboe), Darrett Adkins (cello), Sarah Nicholls (piano)
Northern Sinfonia, Sainsbury Royal Academy Soloists, Royal Academy of Music Cello Ensemble, Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, London Sinfonietta
Always in Cashian, he bids for your attention with something striking, then takes you with him and makes you listen...Best of all is the Piano Concerto, which has drawn me back to it many times...terrific... —
