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Spellweaving
Ancient Music from The Highlands of Scotland
Barnaby Brown (pipes & vocals), Clare Salaman (fiddles & hurdy-gurdy) & Bill Taylor (lyres & harp)
[Brown] and his colleagues deliver beguiling performances using an instrumentarium of bagpipes, vulture-bone flute, clarsach (folk harp) et al, as well as his pleasantly light-toned voice. —
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The Coral Sea
New music for soprano saxophone and piano
Sue McKenzie (saxophone) & Ingrid Sawers (piano)
an agreeable collection of works … a strong roster of composers —
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The surprise is how charming his music can be, when it is not weighed down by his cleverness. He can slyly wrong-foot us with waltzes, or beguile with a serene homage...Bach is a constant presence,... —
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Seriously fine performances - exceptional in Shostakovich's Eighth Quartet - of an attractively varied programme. —
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Simon Smith's engagingly performed and atmospherically recorded recital offers a fascinating insight into the composer's development from the 1960s through to the 1980s. —
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Piers Hellawell: Airs, Waters
Robert Plane (clarinet)
Fidelio Trio & RTE National SO, Pierre-André Valade
The performances do the music proud, not least the limpidly precise pianism of Mary Dullea and soulful clarinet-playing of Robert Plane, while the sound has a clarity and perspective equally... —
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Full marks for originailty of concept and for execution, which has all this ensemble's trademark style and communicative nous, and for a fascinating booklet-note by Ivan Moody.ode12732 —
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On Christmas Night: Carols from Merton
Owen Chan, François Cloete, Kentaro Machida, Agatha Pethers, Aine Smith, Joseph Rhee, Henry Le Feber Robertson, Amy Higgins, Cecily Moorsom, Louis Morford, Choir of Merton College Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas
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Jane Stanley: Cerulean Orbits
The Hermes Experiment, Jacqueline Shave, Simon Smith, Ruth Morley, Timothy Lines, Red Note Ensemble, Christian Elliott
Atmosphere and texture are at the heart of this recording, shining a light on the music of Austalian composer Jane Stanley...Captivating performances, too, from Red Note Ensemble. —
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Three works for chorus with an instrument or two...Weir’s title piece, with clarinet (Hannah Lawrance) on top of percussion and keyboard, evokes five colours in four movements — most notably... —
