Benjamin Baker
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Baker brings out each work’s sweet melancholy with expressive phrasing. Through his lightly handled bowing, the opening phrases of the Copland Sonata morph effortlessly into a dance rhythm...Even... —
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Oliver Davis: Arcadia
Benjamin Baker (violin), Huw Watkins (piano), Kerenza Peacock (violin)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The Hanke Brothers, Paul Bateman
Oliver Davis writes music that is easy on the ears, full of warm harmonies and buoyant rhythms. There’s no denying, though, a general lack of oomph and rigour in the works featured here. —
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Special offer. Augusta Read Thomas: Bell Illuminations
Joey Brink, Joseph Min, Emily Kim, João Francisco Shida, Kristina Bachrach, Brian Hong, Alexander Hersh, Jordan Bak (viola), Benjamin Baker (violin), John Corkhill, Carmen Pelton, The Choral Arts Society of Washington, Third Coast Percussion, The Chicago Philharmonic, Norman Scribner, Scott Speck
There’s something wonderfully wild and restless about this collection of works. The opening piece is written for a carillon of 72 bells and bathes the listener in an aural haze of beauty and... —
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As the Water Flows: Classical Selection
The Hanke Brothers, Benjamin Baker (violin), James Rhodes (piano), Camerata Pacifica, Patrick Hawes, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Duke Quartet, Paul Bateman
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Benjamin Baker’s violin is sympathetically balanced forwards of Daniel Lebhardt’s piano, never so much as to exaggerate one or obscure the other...Baker has a nice line in portamento for the... —
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Life
Huw Watkins (piano), Kerenza Peacock, Benjamin Baker (violin), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Julian Kershaw
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Matthew Kaner: Chamber Music
Benjamin Baker, Daniel Lebhart, Matthias Balzat, Guy Johnston (cello), Goldfield Ensemble, Mark Simpson (clarinet)
This fine debut album from London-born Matthew Kaner (b1986) reveals a composer deftly able to draw the listener into his far-reaching imaginative world...While each piece is strongly evocative,... —
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Special offer. Oliver Davis: Air
Oliver Davis, Grace Davidson (soprano), Kerenza Peacock, Jeremy Budd (tenor), Elsbet Remijn, Katherine Jenkinson, Benjamin Baker (violin), Hanke Brothers, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Air Chamber Ensemble, Paul Bateman
