Paul Watkins
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Watkins and Bax have embraced Beethoven's fire and storms, but also found beauty and balance that others miss. Certainly it feels as though a new Beethoven cello sonatas benchmark has landed. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2026, Recording of the Month
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The most stylistically striking piece is Rubbra's Sonata of 1946...The Watkins brothers, true to form, pay close attention to its rhythmic life, though they also know how to soar into beauty...[they]... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gardner's control of [the Second], not least its eventual disintegration, is highly compelling...the Cello Concerto receives a superbly concentrated performance here from the soloists Paul Watkins...[Grave]... —
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Tippett: Ritual Dances, Concerto for double string orchestra & Fantasia Concertante
RecommendedMichael Davis, Jacqueline Hartley, Paul Watkins
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, Andrew Davis
Sir Andrew Davis's formidable Tippettian credentials shine through in every bar of this outstanding anthology. Aided by realistic, firmly focused sound, the Concerto for Double StringOrchestra... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Karadaglic can articulate rapidly with the best of them, but what stands out even in busy textures is an unshakably serene breadth of phrasing, fluent rhythm and unforced rubato...Nor does he... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2011, Instrumental Choice
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There is a strong sense of ensemble at every stage, but beyond this, the performers have an instinctive grasp of the often mercurial dynamics of this music...Perhaps best of all is their reading... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2010, Chamber Choice
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Special offer. Miklós Rózsa: Orchestral Works Volume 2
Jennifer Pike (violin), Paul Watkins (cello)
BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba
The second volume in Chandos's survey of Miklos Rozsa's orchestral output gets off to an auspicious start with a beautifully nuanced performance from violinist Jennifer Pike of the Variations... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2011, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2003, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Piers Hellawell: Up By The Roots
Paul Watkins (cello), Huw Watkins (piano), William Howard (piano), Fidelio Trio, Hard Rain Ensemble, Ulster Orchestra
There's a 20-minute orchestral piece, Wild Flow, but the others are chamber-scaled. The title piece, a melodrama to poems about the plight of migrants, read by the author Sinéad Morrissey, does,... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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