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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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Martin Suckling: This Departing Landscape
Tamara Stefanovich (piano), Katherine Bryan (flute), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Ilan Volkov
Bryan is sublime, slicing through fragmented cadenzas and revealing a powerful lower range. Another expert soloist is pianist Tamara Stefanovich, a highly accomplished 20th- and 21st-century... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, Concerto Choice
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Robert Simpson: Symphony No. 3
RecommendedBernard Walton (clarinet)
London Symphony Orchestra, The Aeolian String Quartet, Jascha Horenstein
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Building a Library, October 2006, Highly Recommended
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Special offer. Rupert Bawden: The Sailor's Tale
The Nash Ensemble, Alexander Grove (tenor), Flora McIntosh (mezzo), Andrew Heggie (baritone) & The Creake Ensemble
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Rupert Bawden & Gary Cheung
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Six Degrees of Separation
Carmine Lauri, Rebecca Gilliver, Chris Richards, Sam Walton, David Jackson, Tim Jones, David Elton, Niall Keatley, Peter Moore (trombone), Ben Thomson, Neil Percy (percussion), Liz Burley, London Symphony Orchestra, Darren Bloom
All these pieces are performed with total assurance by members of the London Symphony Orchestra. This commendable release is a welcome introduction to a terrific new wave of composing talent. —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2021, Orchestral Choice
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Anderson’s music is always very visceral; one is likely to have a strong reaction (positive or negative) to it. It is fantastically colorful and diverse in the wide range of expressive devices... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Contemporary
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The fluctuating dramas in both scores [Orchestral Variations: The Seeds Long Hidden (1994) and Visions and Journeys (2002)] come vividly across, without any of the ponderousness that can seep... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Contemporary
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Helen Grime: Night Songs
Lynsey Marsh (clarinet)
Hallé & Hallé Soloists, Sir Mark Elder & Jamie Phillips
The performances are a tribute to the dedication of Hallé players, whether in orchestral or ensemble guise, and have all been recorded with the spaciousness and immediacy which this music needs. —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2014, Editor's Choice
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The book teems with subtle cross-references, like the sudden reappearance in the last volume of the
amamzingly Debussian gesture that launched the whole cycle. There are other echoes, too, from... —Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2004, Editor's Choice
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Luke Bedford: in the Voices of the Living
BBC Philharmonic, Juan José Mena, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Knussen, Mark Padmore (tenor), London Sinfonietta, Geoffrey Paterson, Arcis Saxophon Quartett, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Ben Gernon
The quality of performances, as of performers, says much for the respect in which Bedford’s music is held. Aficionados and newcomers alike should investigate this release. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Contemporary
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