Nicholas Daniel
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Special offer. Simpson: Geysir and Mozart: Gran Partita
RecommendedMark Simpson, Fraser Langton (clarinet), Nicholas Daniel, Emma Fielding (oboe), Amy Harman, Dom Tyler (bassoon), Oliver Pashley, Ausias Garrigos Morant (basset horns), Ben Goldscheider, Angela Barnes, James Pillai, Fabian van de Geest (horn), David Stark (double bass)
In a teeming catalogue, this new Gran Partita more than holds its own. But the clinching factor for many will be Mark Simpson’s companion piece: a tour de force of wind colour and carefully... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th December 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Played with such warmth and eloquence, the arrangements chosen here often feel as if they were tailor-made for the instrument, while the sensitive programming paints a loving portrait of the... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2024, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Chamber Music
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2025, Winner - Chamber
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Special offer. Anna Meredith: Triptotage Miniatures; Colin Matthews: Postludes; Alexander Goehr: After The Waking
Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Daniel, Britten Sinfonia, Nash Ensemble, Martyn Brabbins
Meredith’s style doesn’t fit into a particular category…Aurora Orchestra expertly handles the cross-rhythms and changing time signatures…[Goehr’s] Schoenbergian melodic language is beautifully... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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Daniel’s immaculate playing is the main attraction here. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2021
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Special offer. Outi Tarkiainen: Midnight Sun Variations
and other works
Nicholas Daniel (cor anglais), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
In some ways, Ondine’s second disc of music by Outi Tarkiainen paints the composer in a slightly different light – more personal and reflective, less an artist railing against injustice. In... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Special offer. Complete Works For Oboe By Madeleine Dring
Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Adam Walker (flute), Amy Harman (bassoon), Antonio Oyarzabal (piano)
there’s never any quality shortage with the oboist Nicholas Daniel, whose winning blend of punch and suavity threads through all 12 works on this refreshing album. The longest and most ambitious... —
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Quiet City
RecommendedAlison Balsom (trumpet), Tom Poster (piano), Nicholas Daniel (cor anglais), Britten Sinfonia, Scott Stroman
Revisiting the improvisatory practice of jazz icons with highly idiosyncratic techniques can fall flat, but Balsom and the Britten Sinfonia make it work. They are entirely idiomatic and wonderfully... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th August 2022
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French Woodwind Music, Volume 2
Ravel & Poulenc
William Bennett (flute), James Campbell (clarinet), Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Rachel Gough (bassoon)
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The Glory Tree
Chamber Works by Cheryl Frances-Hoad
Nicholas Daniel (oboe, cor anglais), Nadia Wijzenbeek (violin), Ylvali Zilliacus (viola), Marie Macleod (cello), Alasdair Beatson (piano), Natalia Lomeiko (violin), Leonid Gorokhov (solo cello), Catriona Scott (clarinet), Natalie Raybould (soprano)
Ensemble na Mara, Lenvai String Trio, Instrumentalists...
Frances-Hoad's allegiances are to mainstream modernism, rather than the various popular post-modernist 'isms'. Her compositions may tend towards the sternly ascetic, but they are full of feeling... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2011, Chamber Choice
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Special offer. Bliss - Chamber Music Volume 2
Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Martin Outram (viola), Peter Donohoe (piano)
Maggini Quartet
The Maggini Quartet and Peter Donohoe give a commanding performance of the Piano Quartet, locating an underlying toughness of argument and urgency of expression in both outer movements to make... —
