NMC
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Both of these works [the Moeran and the Rawsthorne] benefit, as does the recital as a whole, from superbly responsive playing by Harriet Mackenzie and Philippa Mo - who project the music's often... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2013, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Birtwistle: Gawain
RecommendedMarie Angel (Morgan le Fay), Anne Howells (Lady de Hautdesert), Francois Le Roux (Gawain), John Tomlinson (The Green Knight/Bertilak de Hautdesert), Penelope Walmsley-Clark (Guinevere), Richard Greager (Arthur), Omar Ebrahim (The Fool), Alan Ewing (Agravain), John Marsden (Ywain), Kevin Smith (Bishop...
Tomlinson pulls off the feat magnificently. There's a deep, grainy quality to his voice that catches the sorrow and cynicism of the Green Knight perfectly...Another strength of this recording... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1996, Winner - Contemporary
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Colin Matthews
Alexander Baillie (cello)
London Sinfonietta, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, John Carewe, Michael Tilson Thomas
This set offers a rounded portrait of a restlessly questing composer … big architectonic pieces in performances of impressive might under Carewe —
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This well-filled disc deserves success. It is the perfect way to get to know some truly inventive and stimulating music by one of our most important contemporary composers. It should be snapped... —
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Simon Bainbridge: Fantasia for Double Orchestra
Walter Trampler (viola)
Composers Ensemble, BBC Symphony Orchestra & London Sinfonietta, Michael Tilson Thomas
…the Viola Concerto (1976) remains an astonishingly assured work from one then in his early twenties, not least in the subtle control of tension and textural ingenuity over its two sizeable... —
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David Bedford: Alleluia Timpanis
Piers Adams (recorders)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Crouch End Festival Chorus, Jac van Steen, Martyn Brabbins
Someone who can combine the shimmering sounds of Sixties texture music with greater consonance than most would dare deserves his place in the sun. —
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The performances by a cast of Carter devotees are flawless. —
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Boundaries - Vinyl Edition
David Toop (improvisation) & Jan Henrickse (improvisation)
City University Experimental Ensemble
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Themes & Variations
Three sets of variations - two previously unrecorded - with contributions from 19 British composers ranging from William Walton to Judith Weir
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jac van Steen
This fascinating disc... offers a snapshot of British musical tastes over the last 50 years —
