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Oliver Knussen: Autumnal Alexandra Wood (violin), Huw Watkins (piano), Claire Booth (soprano), Ryan Wigglesworth (piano), Leila Josefowicz (violin); BBC Symphony Orchestra, BCMG, Oliver Knussen
this CD should do more than any live performance to tell the world what a treasure he is. The Walton-esque Violin Concerto, Knussen’s masterpiece, is played with dazzling artistry by Josefowicz...[the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Finalist - Contemporary
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Oliver Knussen: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3 Elaine Barry, Linda Hirst (sopranos) & Michael Collins, Dward Pillinger, Ian Mitchell (clarinets)
The Nash Ensemble, London Sinfonietta, Philharmonia Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas & Oliver Knussen
Here is the essence of him: his precocious song-cycle symphony (No 2) and arresting Symphony No 3 (performed by the Philharmonia)...and that locus classicus of ensemble virtuosity, the five-minute... — More…
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Davies, Peter Maxwell: Taverner Martyn Hill (Taverner), David Wilson-Johnson (Jester), Stephen Richardson (Henry VIII), Fiona Kimm (Virgin Mary), Michael Chance (Priest/God), Quentin Hayes (White Abbot) & Peter Sidhom (Richard Taverner)
Fretwork, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta Voices, His Majestys Sagbutts...
The opera is full… bitterly ironic juxtapositions, such as the 'holy' chanting from monks heard against the cynical Realpolitik of the negotiations between King and the Cardinal. Making the... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Opera
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Opera, April 2010, Recording of the Month
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Julian Anderson: Alhambra Fantasy RecommendedBBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Oliver Knussen
Anderson's confidence in handling and shaping his musical material and his wonderfully precise ear for instrumental colour have been constants in his music… Oliver Knussen's beautifully integrated... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th October 2008
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2006, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2006, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Contemporary
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Julian Anderson: Book of Hours Lamberto Coccioli & Scott Wilson (electronics)
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Oliver Knussen, Martyn Brabbins & Sakari Oramo
The dazzling Book of Hours, composed for the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, is one of Anderson's greatest achievements so far, building from the simplest beginning - the first four notes... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Contemporary
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2006, Editor's Choice
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Colin Matthews: Violin Concerto RecommendedLeila Josefowicz (violin), Anssi Karttunen (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Oliver Knussen, Riccardo Chailly, Rumon Gamba
[Leila Josefowicz has] unlocked a sensuous outpouring from Matthews, a concerto of lithe purpose and natural flow…the fearless Josefowicz brings her unique improvisatory energy, finding exuberant... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Tansy Davies: Nature RecommendedHuw Watkins (piano)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Karen Kamensek, Oliver Knussen
Shamanism and the human fascination with divine energy is a recurring theme in Tansy Davies’s work. The piano loosely represents a spiritual intermediary in Nature (2012)...Davies characterises... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Alexander Goehr: Colossos or Panic Claire Booth & Hilary Summers
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BCMG, ASKO Ensemble, Oliver Knussen
Knussen directs performances that are as far from routine as it's possible to get, with wonderfully vivid results. — More…
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Anderson: Heaven Is Shy Of Earth Susan Bickley (mezzo)
London Sinfonietta, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Oliver Knussen
Heaven is Shy of Earth is a substantial work of intriguing paradoxes…Gloriously uplifting and luminescent, it has dark threads and exudes both a striking simplicity and a numinous complexity…Anderson’s... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Contemporary
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Birtwistle: Melencolia Mary King (mezzo), Michael Thompson (horn) and Christopher van Kampen (cello)
London Sinfonietta, Oliver Knussen
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