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Howard Skempton: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner RecommendedChristopher Yates (viola), Roderick Williams (baritone)
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Martyn Brabbins
[Skempton] judges the balance between reiteration and variety to perfection, while the typical Skempton traits – clarity, deceptive simplicity and apparently familiar yet fresh and capricious... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th May 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2017, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Contemporary
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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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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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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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Howard Skempton's music sounds deceptively easy. Openness to simplicity is one of the hardest qualities to nurture in music, and it is the heart and soul of Skempton's creativity. Exaudi is... — More…
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Britten on Film Simon Russell Beale (narrator) & Mary Carewe (soprano)
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus & Choir of King
Edwards’ Boys School, Birmingham, Martyn Brabbins
Britten's short period with the GPO Film Unit and other similar organisations proved to be key training for his musico-dramatic skills. The performances, by the BCMG and assorted choirs and... — More…
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[The Rumpelstiltskin Suite] conveys uninhibited grotesquerie through obsessive rhythmic patterning and boldly differentiated instrumental colouring...This performance by BCMG under Martyn Brabbins... — More…
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Tansy Davies: Spine Simon Haram (saxophone), Samuel Boden (tenor) & Huw Watkins (piano), Joby Burgess (percussion), Darragh Morgan (violin), Huw Watkins (piano)
BCMG, Concordia, Azalea, Christopher Austin
The performances are as authoritative as expected from the calibre of soloists and ensembles involved, not least Samuel Boden and Huw Watkins in the two songs after Nick Drake. — More…
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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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Simon Holt: Boots of Lead Ulrich Heinen (cello), Rolf Hind (piano), Rinat Shaham (mezzo)
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Martyn Brabbins, Sir Simon Rattle
A technically immaculate disc, performed with tremendous flair … it serves to reinforce Holt’s position as one of the very best British composers writing today — More…
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