Benjamin Frith
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It's good to hear his music brilliantly performed by musicians of the Nash Ensemble...The Grand Sextet is a splendidly heroic work, with its virtuoso pianism enthusiastically delivered here... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2022, Chamber Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Once again Naxos scores with a little-known pianist, and the program includes the last of Field's Op. 1 sonatas that he wrote in 1801. It is in two movements but shows considerable influence... —
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Another Naxos edition well worth collecting. —
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Field: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 7 & Piano Sonata No. 4
Benjamin Frith (piano)
Northern Sinfonia, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, David Haslam, Andrew Mogrelia
With this disc, Benjamin Frith finally completes his cycle of Field’s piano concertos. Performed with commitment, Frith never less than elegant —
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[the Third Rhapsody] may ramble a bit but is a very enjoyable work full of telling ideas, and Benjamin Frith definitely makes the most of the meaty solo part...Falletta directs the Ulster Orchestra... —
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Made me fall in love with this music all over again. And there could scarcely be higher praise than that —
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Building a Library, April 2001, First Choice
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These excellent performances are distinguished by beauty of tone and a rhythmic spring and alertness that has not always been Ireland's lot… the Gould Trio bring out the music's rhythmic variety,... —
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Russian Works for Piano Four Hands
Stravinsky; Rachmaninov; Tchaikovsky
Peter Hill & Benjamin Frith (piano)
Frith and Hill balance the virtuosity with explosive melodies…both have the necessary dexterity to chase notes and fingers – the overlapping twists and turns of ‘Slava’ demand a balletic performance…The... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2017
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Stanford: Piano Quartet No. 2
Gould Piano Trio: Lucy Gould (violin), Alice Neary (cello) & Benjamin Frith (piano), with David Adams (viola)
It's hard to draw a deeper connection between an apparently un-Teutonic composer who came up with this winsome Irish material, and the one who could absorb himself so fully, and to such a finished... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2011, Editor's Choice
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Benjamin Frith proves an ideal soloist in these attractive, decorative pieces. Like his close contemporary, Hummel, Field is much more adept at embroidering the themes which bubble from him... —
