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Walton: Symphony No. 2 & Cello Concerto RecommendedPaul Watkins (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
If a new Walton release can finally put paid to the notion that his music somehow 'went off' after his move to the Italian island of Ischia in 1956, then this must be it. And the performances... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2015, First Choice
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Finzi: Cello Concerto, Op. 40 RecommendedPaul Watkins (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
Sir Andrew Davis’s feeling for the composer’s sensitive, harmonically conservative language is abundantly clear in these vivid readings with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Soloists too are well... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st December 2018
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Britten: Symphony for Cello and Orchestra RecommendedPaul Watkins (cello), Robert Murray (tenor)
BBC Philharmonic, Edward Gardner
Three elements stand out: firstly, the dramatic intensity of purpose he finds in all pieces; secondly, the sizzling soloistic detail he draws from the BBC Philharmonic and, thirdly, the depth... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2011, Disc of the month
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Building A Library, June 2022, Recommended Recording
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Delius: Violin Concerto, Double Concerto & Cello Concerto Tasmin Little (violin), Tasmin Little (violin) & Paul Watkins (cello), Paul Watkins (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
Little is every bit as persuasively expressive as on her earlier recordings with Charles Mackerras. Paul Watkins provides the partnership you'd expect from such a fine chamber musician in the... — More…
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there are times when a recording of a popular classic comes along that's so fresh, understanding and heartfelt that it demands to be approached solely on its own terms. Paul Watkins's Elgar Cello... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2012, Editor's Choice
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Piers Hellawell: Up By The Roots
Paul Watkins (cello), Huw Watkins (piano), William Howard (piano)
Fidelio Trio, Hard Rain Ensemble, Ulster Orchestra
There's a 20-minute orchestral piece, Wild Flow, but the others are chamber-scaled. The title piece, a melodrama to poems about the plight of migrants, read by the author Sinéad Morrissey, does,... — More…
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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Brahms: Cello Sonatas & Clarinet Trio Paul Watkins (cello) & Ian Brown (piano), Michael Collins (clarinet)
by stretching and releasing phrases without corrupting the basic pulse, lightening or darkening notes without damaging timbres, Collins shares with his colleagues an individual impulse to the... — More…
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bathed in Chandos splendour, the Watkins brothers remain by far the best recorded guides to this powerful and enjoyable repertoire. — More…
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Adès: Arcadiana and other works
RecommendedLondon Sinfonietta, Endellion String Quartet, King's College Cambridge Choir, Markus Stenz
These five pieces suggest a composer as delightedly surprised by his prodigal inventiveness as we are. Arcadiana, for example, is a seven-movement string quartet whose central and longest movement... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1998, Winner - Editor's Choice
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Bridge: Phantasy Piano Quartet & Sonatas
The Nash Ensemble: Marianne Thorsen (violin), Laura Samuel (violin), Lawrence Power (viola), Paul Watkins (cello) & Ian Brown (piano)
What this beautifully played and thoughtfully programmed disc has going for it are, first, that it presents these works in a chronological survey of Bridge's chamber output...Altogether, a valuable... — More…
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