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Anna Clyne: Abstractions
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
Awards:
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2025
There is a strong visual element to much of Anna Clyne's work, with each movement of 2016's Abstractions linked to specific art works...Marin Alsop's conducting currency is also colour, and...
Anna Clyne: Abstractions
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
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Awards:
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2025
There is a strong visual element to much of Anna Clyne's work, with each movement of 2016's Abstractions linked to specific art works...Marin Alsop's conducting currency is also colour, and...
About
Anna Clyne, described as a ‘composer of uncommon gifts and unusual methods’ by The New York Times, is one of the most in-demand composers today, working with orchestras, choreographers, filmmakers and visual artists around the world. Clyne’s unique voice combines tradition with postmodern techniques, giving her listeners a sense of musical adventure that is grounded in the past. From the beautiful elegy Within Her Arms to the defiant power of Restless Oceans, Anna Clyne’s music strikes a positive and resilient tone.
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Contemporary Music Round-Up - Winter 2025
18th Dec 2025
In our latest round-up of contemporary music releases, Ben celebrates the work of two nonagenarians, explores the colour spectrum through the orchestra, enjoys pictorial British chamber music, and find the twenty-first-century symphony to be in rude health.
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Anna Clyne and Marin Alsop on Abstractions
8th Oct 2025
The composer and conductor talk about their long history of working together, including their first collaboration at the Cabrillo Festival back in 2010, the Last Night of the Proms in 2013, and their latest album of four pieces with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recordings of the YearFinalist 2025
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Presto Recordings of the YearWinner 2025
November 2025
There is a strong visual element to much of Anna Clyne's work, with each movement of 2016's Abstractions linked to specific art works...Marin Alsop's conducting currency is also colour, and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra skilfully render this premiere recording.
Awards Issue 2025
This engaging portrait album highlights a defining impulse in Anna Clyne's music: to create vivid soundscapes through a symbiotic dialogue with visual art one in which textures, forms and atmospheres are translated across disciplines.
26th September 2025
Clyne writes strikingly accessible and attractive music...Within Her Arms, whose string writing seems close to Tippett’s Corelli Fantasia at times, is impressively impassioned, but in each piece here Clyne’s command of her material seems ever more assured and focused.
1st October 2025
Several emotions, mostly happy, dominate this new album of music by the imaginative genre-bending British composer Anna Clyne, long resident in the United States. Marin Alsop conjures up excellent live performances from the organisation she conducted for 14 years, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
