Browse: Concertos, Beamish (composer)

Sally Beamish has the Gaelic art of keening down to a fine art. Scotland is her adopted home, and its history and culture course through music that so often finds its starting point in something... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2015 More…

Hardenberger is superb, as always—as is BIS’s SACD sound. All in all, this is a very enjoyable romp through the modern trumpet-and-orchestra repertoire, with enough differences among the three... — Fanfare, March/April 2020 More…

…Sharon Bezaly plays - stunningly well… — BBC Music Magazine, March 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Isserlis finds wonderful, darkly smouldering tone and line for Ravel's Two Melodies (originally for soprano voice) and the three Ernest Bloch pieces. He excels, too, in the busier idiom of Prokofiev's... — Classic FM Magazine, November 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The performances and recording strike me as excellent, with the quicksilver virtuosity of the Rascher Quartet almost a reward in itself. — International Record Review, June 2012 More…

From 1998 to 2002 Sally Beamish enjoyed a four-year dual residency with the Swedish and Scottish chamber orchestras. The compositional results included this trio of orchestral works, which are... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

A wonderfully vibrant Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht and, played by Malin Broman, Esa-Pekka Salonen’s engrossing Lachen verlernt for solo violin are the highlights of this well thought-out celebration... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

...the First Symphony leaves the strongest impression here...It makes no mean impression in this performance, Martyn Brabbins drawing a committed response from the Royal Scottish National players,... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2010 More…

…Tatjana Masurenko… reading of Walton's masterpiece combines impressive technical acumen and no mean interpretative flair. The NDR Radiophilharmonie, too, respond with polish and keen vigour... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2009 More…