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Birtwistle - Lullaby
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Birtwistle: The Moth Requiem
RecommendedRoderick Williams (baritone)
BBC Singers & Nash Ensemble, Nicholas Kok
This is a wonderful and important release of his powerful and often delicate works. Best, perhaps, to begin with On the Sheer Threshold of the Night, which is a kind of spin-off from The Mask... —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Contemporary
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Birtwistle: Songs 1970–2006
Alice Rossi (soprano)
Das Neue Ensemble, Kuss Quartet, Soloists of the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, Stefan Asbury
the performance is admirable and all the recordings, taken from an 80th-birthday celebration of Birtwistle's music in Germany, are satisfyingly polished and atmospheric. —
