Huw Watkins
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Special offer. Oliver Knussen: Autumnal
Alexandra Wood (violin), Huw Watkins (piano), Claire Booth (soprano), Ryan Wigglesworth (piano), Leila Josefowicz (violin); BBC Symphony Orchestra, BCMG, Oliver Knussen
this CD should do more than any live performance to tell the world what a treasure he is. The Walton-esque Violin Concerto, Knussen’s masterpiece, is played with dazzling artistry by Josefowicz...[the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Finalist - Contemporary
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Special offer. Tansy Davies: Nature
RecommendedHuw Watkins (piano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Karen Kamensek, Oliver Knussen
Shamanism and the human fascination with divine energy is a recurring theme in Tansy Davies’s work. The piano loosely represents a spiritual intermediary in Nature (2012)...Davies characterises... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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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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They launch into the first of Beethoven’s ten violin sonatas with a joyous sense of fresh discovery. They go way beyond generic posturing to give us a sense of unbridled enjoyment that is palpable.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2020, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2020, Chamber Choice
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The NMC Songbook
RecommendedSopranos - Claire Booth, Ailish Tynan, Elizabeth Atherton
Mezzo-sopranos - Susan Bickley, Loré Lixenberg, Jean Rigby
Countertenors - James Bowman, Michael Chance, Andrew Watts
Tenors - Andrew Kennedy, Daniel Norman, Benjamin Hulett
Baritones - Stefan Loges, Roderick Williams,...
…anyone listening to these discs will find many things to savour… It is, inevitably an eclectic mix, but, as in any well-planned song recital, the progressions and juxtapositions are continually... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th April 2009
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Contemporary
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Richard Causton: La Terra Impareggiabile
Marcus Farnsworth (baritone), Huw Watkins (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Baritone Marcus Farnsworth and pianist Huw Watkins are compelling advocates [in La terra impareggiabile]...Interactions of past and present are integral to the orchestral Ik zeg: NU (I Say:... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Finalist - Contemporary
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bathed in Chandos splendour, the Watkins brothers remain by far the best recorded guides to this powerful and enjoyable repertoire. —
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Special offer. Smetana, Ravel and Watkins: Piano Trios
Antje Weithaas (violin), Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (cello), Huw Watkins (piano), Florian Donderer (violin), Tanja Tetzlaff (cello), Lars Vogt (piano), Sebastian Manz (clarinet), Florian Donderer (viola)
these performances from the 2011 [Spannungen] festival feature a mixing and matching of personnel, with inspiration generally running high in these three trios captured on three successive days....It... —
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Michael Zev Gordon: The Impermanence of Things
Michael Zev Gordon, Catherine Larsen-Maguire, Carolin Widmann, Huw Watkins (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, London Sinfonietta, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Ryan Wigglesworth
Gordon says that for years he has been ‘mixing together diverse materials and styles in the same piece’ which sounds easier than it is, and these three works all demonstrate a fine composer’s... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2024, Concerto 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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