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Contemporary Music Round-Up - Spring 2025
11th Jun 2025
In this round-up of contemporary releases from the first months of 2025, we look at the keyboard through new eyes, take to the stage for twenty-first-century opera suites, encounter exciting piano concertos for the first time, and hear the viola in a whole new light.
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Martyn Brabbins on Michael Tippett's New Year
12th Mar 2025
The conductor discusses the world premiere recording of Tippett's final opera, a 'space-aged fairytale' from 1989 which centres on a troubled child psychologist's transformative encounter with time-travellers from the future.
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Tippett from Edward Gardner and the London Philharmonic Orchestra
13th Dec 2024
Teeming with detail and infectious energy, these live recordings make superb cases for two works from the mid-1950s which had rocky starts in life: the Piano Concerto (with Steven Osborne on clear-headed form) and Symphony No. 2.
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Tippett's A Child of Our Time from the late Andrew Davis
3rd May 2024
A long-term champion of Tippett's music, the British conductor leads a meticulously-detailed account of his wartime oratorio with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and soloists Pumeza Matshikiza, Dame Sarah Connolly, Joshua Stewart and Ashley Riches.
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Elgan Llŷr Thomas on Unveiled
28th Jun 2023
In the wake of the release of his debut album featuring a bold new translation of Britten's Michelangelo Sonnets (plus music by Tippett, Gipps and Thomas himself), the Welsh tenor discusses queer representation in opera and song - and why he feels that 'it's about time we started adding other stories into the mix'...
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Tippett Symphonies from Martyn Brabbins
29th Dec 2017
James enjoys commanding accounts of the two first symphonies by Sir Michael Tippett from Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
