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Special offer. Birtwistle: Punch and Judy
RecommendedStephen Roberts, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Jan DeGaetani, Philip Langridge, David Wilson- Johnson & John Tomlinson
London Sinfonietta, David Atherton
It's almost 40 years since the 1968 premiere of Punch and Judy, celebrated in legend as a rude gesture in the face of Aldeburgh primness, and with hindsight as one of the finest achievements... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1980, Winner - Contemporary
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Bracing Change 2
RecommendedTurnage - Newland - Grime
Piatti Quartet, Quatuor Bozzini, Heath Quartet
In Sylvia Plath’s Contusion – written shortly before the poet ’s suicide – the titular bruise is observed in the context of metaphors that detail irreversible emotional anguish. Mark-Anthony... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2023, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Gramophone Awards, 1991, Winner - Contemporary
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Weir: The Vanishing Bridegroom
RecommendedAilish Tynan (soprano), Anna Stéphany (mezzo), Andrew Tortise (tenor), Owen Gilhooly (baritone) & Jonathan Lemalu (bass baritone)
BBC Singers & BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
a composer of integrity, [Weir] communicates intelligently with different audiences and ages. This timely release of The Vanishing Bridegroom (1990), her most successful opera, underscores her... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2014, Opera Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Jonathan Harvey: Bird Concerto with Pianosong
Hidéki Nagano (piano), Gareth Hulse (oboe) & Sound Intermedia (live electronics), Paul Archibald (trumpet) & Sound Intermedia (live electronics), Tim Gill (cello) & Sound Intermedia (live electronics)
London Sinfonietta, David Atherton
Here is yet another mesmerising disc of music by Jonathan Harvey. Bird Concerto with Pianosong is a work of remarkable, beguiling beauty, in which the sounds of real birds intertwine with the... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2012, Orchestral Choice
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Imogen Holst: String Chamber Music
Simon Hewitt Jones, David Worswick, Tom Hankey, Oliver Coates, Thomas Hewitt Jones, Daniel Swain
It defies belief that until this recording led by violinist and cellist Simon and Thomas Hewitt Jones appeared much of this fine music, combining haunting Englishness with a distinctly French... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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The setting is for all-male vocal quartet — the immaculate Hilliard Ensemble — and a small instrumental ensemble of wind, percussion and harp. The music is at once ancient and modern. There... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2019
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
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That LeFanu possesses an ear for finesse is evident from The Hidden Landscape (1973), with its oblique yet purposeful trajectory from the ominous, even confrontational to a gauntly imposing... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Edmund Finnis: The Air, Turning
Eloisa-Fleur Thorn (violin), Mark Simpson (clarinet), Víkingur Ólafsson (piano), Benjamin Bellman (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, London Contemporary Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Ilan Volkov, Richard Baker, Andrew Gourlay
The music of Edmund Finnis invites rather than demands attention – and the more it is given, the more its gifts unfold… Each work on this exquisite debut disc is, in effect, a constantly changing... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Winner - Premiere
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David Matthews: Winter Passions
Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Stephan Loges (baritone)
The Nash Ensemble, Lionel Friend
The writing has many of David Matthews's familiar strengths: a fine sensuous imagination, adventurous harmony that makes clear aural sense, an equally clear sense of organic development of ideas...It's... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Contemporary
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2010, Editor's Choice
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