Nicholas Collon
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Lutosławski: Concerto for Orchestra, Partita for Violin and Orchestra & Novelette
RecommendedChristian Tetzlaff (violin), Jouko Laivuori, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
This compelling release from conductor Nicholas Collon and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra makes clear the evolutionary exuberance of Lutosławski’s creative development. — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2024, Orchestral Choice
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Bacewicz: Concertos for 1 & 2 Pianos, Overture & Music for Strings, Trumpets & Percussion
Peter Jablonski and Elisabeth Brauß (piano), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
The Piano Concerto (1949) might well appeal to those who enjoy Prokofiev and Bartók, though its sweep, energy and internal logic are entirely Bacewicz’s own. Peter Jablonski, whose recording... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2023, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2023, Concerto Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Road Trip: Aurora Orchestra
RecommendedDawn Landes (vocal & guitar), Sam Amidon (vocals & guitar)
Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Adams's Chamber Symphony, inspired equally by Schoenberg and cartoon scores, is taken at a cracking pace, even faster than the composer's own...[Appalachian Spring] is given a lovely performance,... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2015, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi Amy Dickson (saxophones), Thomas Gould (violin), Tom Poster (piano) & Nicolas Fleury (French horn).
Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
There are lissom performances of Finzi’s pastoral miniatures Prelude, Romance and A Severn Rhapsody, and conductor Nicholas Collon shapes the Three Soliloquies from Love’s Labour’s Lost with... — More…
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Music of the Spheres
Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Pekka Kuusisto (violin), Sam Swallow (vocalist)
Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Adès's appropriately stratospheric writing is despatched with fearless aplomb by Pekka Kuusisto. The main attractions, though, are an electric Jupiter Symphony (played from memory, and it shows... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2020
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Michael Morpurgo: The Mozart Question
Recorded on 18 March 2012 at Abbey Road Studios, London.
Michael Morpurgo (author/narrator), Alison Reid (narrator) & Jack Liebeck (violin)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicholas Collon (conductor) & Simon Reade (director)
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Winter with Sibelius
Pekka Kuusisto (violin), Karita Mattila (soprano), Juha Riihimäki, Jorma Hynninen (baritone), Heini Kärkkäinen, Ralf Gothóni, Ritva-Liisa Korhonen, Pertti Eerola, Jan Söderblom, Ilari Angervo, Jan-Erik Gustafsson, Yoshiko Arai, Eero Heinonen (piano)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Turku Philharmonic...
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New Music Collections Vol. 3 - Orchestral
Roy Carter (oboe), Wim Timmermans (horn), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Robin Michael (cello)
Hallé Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Asko Ensemble, BBC Symphony Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, BBC Concert Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Nicholas...
This is a very superior “sampler”...Outstanding, I kept finding, was the first-movement extract from Wood’s Symphony (BBC SO under Andrew Davis): brooding, post-Schoenbergian vehemence with... — More…
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Shakespeare In Music & Words Amy Dickson (alto saxophone), Renée Fleming (soprano), Johann Strauss Orchestra, Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano), Enrico Facini (tenor), Anatolij Kotscherga (bass), Anthony Mee (tenor), Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano), Peter Hurford (organ), April Cantelo (soprano), Helen Watts (contralto),...
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Richard Causton: Millennium Scenes
Chamber Symphony & other works
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group & Hallé, Nicholas Collon, Gerry Cornelius, Ryan Wigglesworth
The composer's huge dyanmic contrasts and complex rhythms obviously pose no problems in performances that stand out for their executional finesse, painstaking balances and commitment. — More…
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