Fenella Humphreys
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Adrian Sutton: Violin Concerto and other works
Fenella Humphreys (violin), BBC Philharmonic, Michael Seal
Sutton’s natural métier is the theatre, and even the Violin Concerto has an external programme which concerns a seagull and its appearance around various coastlines...Sutton was himself a violinist,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2024, Orchestral Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2025, Winner - Premiere
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From Emily Howard’s elegant, linear melody to Sally Beamish’s craggy soundscape, Humphreys channels Paganini’s virtuosity. She also displays playfulness and a light touch in pieces such as... —
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AllMusic, Editor's Choice, May 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Winner - Premiere
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impressive, both in the quality of the playing and the variety of the music…in Ysaye's Third Sonata she yields nothing to the finest recordings in her accuracy and passion, the recording capturing... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2017, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2017, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Winner - Instrumental
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From start to finish Humphreys’s playing is a feast of flawless tuning, beautifully focused and coloured tone and rich characterisation. And there’s no mistaking how Joseph Tong’s accompanying,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2022, Chamber Choice
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There are already more transcriptions of Bach’s D minor Toccata and Fugue BWV 565 than you can shake the proverbial stick at, but Humphreys’s version astutely curates more of Bach’s original... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2024, Instrumental Choice
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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 (new edition)
and works by Christopher Wright
Fenella Humphreys (violin), Christopher Watson (tenor)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Martin Yates
Wright's idiom - both listener-friendly and superbly skilled, with never a wasted note - has no problems sustaining a 35-minute design. Violinist Fenella Humphreys responds to its elegiac reflection... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, Orchestral Choice
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Sibelius: Violin Concerto & Humoresques
Fenella Humphreys (violin), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, George Vass
Humphreys’s playing is a genuine revelation in the way it brings out the music’s dark and introspective qualities, with no shortage of qualities, with no shortage of technical panache meanwhile…[She]... —
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In These Exceptional Times
Rachel Beckles Willson, Melinda Maxwell, Alice Olivia Bailey , Fenella Humphreys (violin), Henry Clements, Edward Lambert, Bobby Barry, Tara Guram, David John Roche, Aurora Nishevci, Brian Smith, Angela Novy, Aidan Marsden, Giulia Lussoso, Millicent B James, Joe Spinoza, Pia Rose Scattergood
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[The Prophecy] evinces a propulsion and cumulative intensity that speaks very much of youthful uninhibition...At the opposite end of the spectrum are brief pieces for flute, piano quartet, and... —
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Sounds of the Chionistra
Songs & Chamber Music by Cilia Petridou
Alison Smart, Lesley-Jane Rogers (soprano), Jennie-Helen Moston, Lukas Kargl, Richard Russell, Fenella Humphreys (violin), Jessica Burroughs, Steven Burnard, Susan Collier, Sarah Down, Ellerdale Trio
