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Special offer. Gerald Barry: The Intelligence Park
Jeremy Budd (tenor), Richard Jackson, Paul Harrhy, Stephen Richardson (bass), Angela Tunstall, Buddug Verona James, Nicholas Clapton, Almeida Ensemble, Robert Houlihan
The Intelligence Park has worn well, with a score that has all the energy, quirky humour and vertiginous changes of mood and direction that we have come to associate with Barry's music. Whether... —
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John Woolrich: The Ghost in the Machine
Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Lars Anders Tomter (viola)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2001, Editor's Choice
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Georgia Rogers’s York Minster uses pitches derived from the building’s acoustic fingerprint; if that sounds dry and scientific, the result is a haunting processional, giving a sense of the vast... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2018
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Michael Zev Gordon: The Impermanence of Things
Michael Zev Gordon, Catherine Larsen-Maguire, Carolin Widmann, Huw Watkins (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, London Sinfonietta, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Ryan Wigglesworth
Gordon says that for years he has been ‘mixing together diverse materials and styles in the same piece’ which sounds easier than it is, and these three works all demonstrate a fine composer’s... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2024, Concerto Choice
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Among the highlights are Mark-Anthony Turnage's unsettling Black Milk (a setting of Paul Celan's Todesfuge, where jazz singer Ian Shaw's grainy vocals are appropriately curdling) and Ninfea... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2022
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Special offer. Weir: Blond Eckbert
Nerys Jones, Nicholas Folwell, Christopher Ventris (tenor), Anne-Marie Owens (mezzo-soprano), English National Opera, English National Opera Chorus, Sian Edwards
Judith Weir's treatment of Ludwig Tieck's story Blond Eckbert creates a compelling world… with its own ingenious methods of narration, and a strong sense of movement towards an inescapable and... —
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these portrait collections tend to be of an extremely high standard – indeed Ryan Latimer’s offering impresses for its breadth and quality...Rather than attempt filmic scene-painting [in Moby... —
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When these recordings first appeared Birtwistle enthusiasts were still absorbing the impact of three 1986 premieres, Earth Dances, The Mask ofOrpheus and Yan Tan Tethera – works which helped... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1988, Winner - Contemporary
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Richard Rodney Bennett: Songs Before Sleep
Sophie Daneman (soprano) & Iain Burnside (piano), Roderick Williams (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano), Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano) & Iain Burnside (piano), Benjamin Hulett (tenor) & Oliver Coates (cello)
[Bennett] creates a campy 1920s-ish idiom, well captured by the versatile Iain Burnside...Benjamin Hulett, with Oliver Coates, sings with commendably Pearsian fervour...Susan Bickley adds mezzo... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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John McCabe: Silver Nocturnes
John McCabe (piano), Roderick Williams (baritone), David Pyatt (horn)
Sacconi Quartet
Silver Nocturnes blurs the boundary between string quartet and quintet…Williams has the necessary strength and intensity for the music’s bleak dramaticism. The Horn Quintet (2010-11) confirms... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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