Richard Watkins
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Musical lines pass in a single, continuous breath from one instrument to the next, and the sensual, dreamlike soundscapes are tinged with immaculately drawn moments of both despair and joy.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2025, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2025, Chamber Choice
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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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British Light Music - Ernest Tomlinson
RecommendedRichard Watkins (horn)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ernest Tomlinson
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Building a Library, June 2011, Featured
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Unknown Britten
RecommendedSandrine Piau (soprano), Rolf Hind (piano), Michael Thompson, Richard Watkins, Peter Francomb & Chris Griffiths (horns), Michael Collins (clarinet)
Northern Sinfonia, Thomas Zehetmair
Britten completed but didn't orchestrate the songs - 'Phrase', 'Aube' and 'À une raison'; Matthews matches them finely to the style of Illuminations. While the cycle is often associated with... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th September 2009
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2009, Disc of the Month
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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. —
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Special offer. Smyth: Serenade in D & Concerto for violin, horn & orchestra
Sophie Langdon (violin), Richard Watkins (horn)
BBC Philharmonic, Odaline de la Martinez
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Special offer. Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
RecommendedLorenzo Soulès (piano), Máté Szücs (viola), Richard Watkins (horn), Allan Clayton (tenor)
Aldeburgh Strings, Markus Däunert
In Britten’s buoyant Young Apollo Aldeburgh Strings field a greater weight and range of colour that Rattle’s CBSO, making the work sound more expressive and substantial, and Lorenzo Soulès is... —
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Building A Library, March 2022, Also Recommended
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Ligeti: Chamber Music
RecommendedPierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Saschko Gawriloff (violin), Marie-Luise Neunecker (french horn), Philippa Davies (flute), Michael Collins (clarinet), Gareth Hulse (oboe), Robin O'Neill (bassoon), Richard Watkins (french horn), Tabea Zimmermann (viola)
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Building a Library, January 2018, Also Recommended
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Fatima
Paolo Buonvino (piano), Prisca Amori (concertmaster, violin), Vincenzo Bolognese (violin), Angelo Maria Santisi (cello), Luca Pincini (cello), Gennarino Amato (clarinet), Alice Iannarilli (bass clarinet), Luca Lombardi (flute), Daniel Myskiv (violin), Francesco Negroni (viola), Massimo Ceccarelli...
