Colin Currie
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…what is immediately striking about the present performance is its boldness and originality in terms of tempo contrasts, rhythmic emphasis and textural variety. Not only the playing beyond... —
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Building a Library, September 2012, First Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2006, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Chamber
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2007, Best Newcomer
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The Colin Currie Group draw on the best of previous recordings, matching Ensemble Signal's attractive combination of energy, power, brilliance and precision in the first and last movements,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2026, Editor's Choice
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What gives Drumming (1970-71) its hypnotic allure is a sense of toppling jeopardy…Colin Currie Group’s own recording, honed through long performance practice, brings you into a magic circle... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2018, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or, April 2018, Nouveauté
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Colin Currie & Steve Reich Live at Fondation Louis Vuitton
Colin Currie (percussion), Steve Reich (percussion)
Colin Currie Group, Synergy Vocals
A powerful rhythmic incisiveness and assertiveness that marked the group’s excellent recording of Drumming (5/18) is again apparent throughout… Synergy Vocals impart a beautiful, haunting performance,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Contemporary Music
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Special offer. Elliott Carter: Late Works
RecommendedPierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Colin Currie (percussion), Isabelle Faust (violin), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Oliver Knussen
brimming with youthful energy and Haydnesque, impish wit...Aimard brings fluent delicacy to the concertos and the orchestral soundings. He is matched in filigree precision by co-protagonists,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th December 2017
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Jury Award - Premiere
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Orchestral
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Special offer. Rautavaara: Modificata, Towards the Horizon & Incantations
RecommendedWorld Première Recordings
Truls Mørk (cello), Colin Currie (percussion)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds
A late and lush harvest of works by octogenarian Einojuhani Rautavaara continues apace. Here we have eagerly awaited documentation of his two latest neo-Romantic concertos, in beautifully recorded... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2012, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Contemporary
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Special offer. Steve Reich: Music For 18 Musicians
Colin Currie (percussion), Colin Currie Group, Synergy Vocals
Currie’s connection with this music is unashamedly deep, bordering on the spiritual...Likewise, the listener ’s relationship with this recording is dependent on the ability to enter a place... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Colin Currie Group’s pianos and marimbas form a impressively organic body, swinging jazzy riffs with masterly skill. While the outer movements dance, with irregular syncopation and open, ever-shifting... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Contemporary
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2018
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HK Gruber: Percussion Concertos
RecommendedColin Currie (soloist), BBC Philharmonic, Juan José Mena, John Storgårds
With textures bursting at the seams, Currie’s performance matches the composer’s charisma. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Alexander Goehr: Since Brass nor Stone
Colin Currie (percussion)
The Nash Ensemble & Pavel Haas Quartet
These performances render the sound worlds of Goehr's sources so consummately that his own twists and turns through them come through persuasively. —
