Orchestra Nova
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Special offer. Huw Watkins: Works For Strings & Piano Trio
Rachel Roberts, Benjamin Nabarro, Leonore Piano Trio, Orchestra Nova, George Vass
This music may not set out to challenge the boldness and range of Watkins’s major vocal and orchestral scores. Yet there is no doubt that the same discriminating musical mind is at work in all... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2003, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Cecilia McDowall: Cantatas
Rowan Pierce (soprano), Katie Bennington (oboe), Choir of Royal Holloway, Orchestra Nova, Royal Holloway Choir, George Vass
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Searle: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 5, Zodiac Variations & Labyrinth
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, Orchestra Nova of London, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, John Pritchard, Lawrence Leonard, Lawrence Foster, Louis Frémaux
[Labyrinth] is conveyed on the wings of some magnificent orchestration, the musical language unforgivingly atonal through the tone poetry achieved is extremely imposing…performance values are... —
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Cecilia McDowall: Stabat Mater
and other works for voice/choir and orchestra
Eamonn Dougan (baritone), Gretel Dowdeswell (piano), Nigel Shipway (percussion), Charlotte Mobbs (soprano) & Eamonn Dougan (baritone), Clare Porter (soprano solo), Kathryn Thomas (flute), Catriona Scott (clarinet), Suzanne Willison-Kawalec (harp)
Martin Smith (violin), Sarah-Jane Bradley...
Heartfelt advocacy in beautifully prepared and recorded performances. —
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Virtual Rachmaninoff: Music by David Cope
Experiments in Musical Intelligence
John Mark Harris (piano), Maria Ezerova (piano), Anatole Leikin (piano)
Orchestra Nova, Jon Marshall
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Special offer. The Heavens and the Heart
Choral and Orchestral Music by James Francis Brown
Gemma Rosefield, Benjamin Nabarro, Rachel Roberts, Catriona Scott, Choir of Royal Holloway, Orchestra Nova, George Vass
This is likeable stuff. Brown’s largely accessible style is most inventive in the depictions of countryside scenes from his childhood in the Clarinet Concerto, the central work here. —
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McDowall, C: Seraphim for solo trumpet, string orchestra & percussion, etc.
Paul Archibald (trumpet), Nicola Eimer (piano), Amy Dickson (saxophone), Freya Ritts-Kirby (violin), Benjamin Griffiths (double bass), Kathryn Thomas (flute), Catriona Scott (clarinet) & Suzanne Willison (harp)
The Tippett Quartet & Orchestra Nova, George Vass
Cecilia McDowell (London-born in 1951) is another of the new generation of highly communicative musicians who… favours writing which, without being in any way facile, is brightly cogent freshly... —
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David Matthews - From Sea to Sky
Lucie Špicková (mezzo-soprano) & Ruth Bolister (oboe), Rachel Nicholls (soprano), Gillian Keith (soprano)
Orchestra Nova Ensemble & Orchestra Nova
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This Sonata is virtuoso music and Laura Mikkola is equal to it. Matthews describes her as ‘a marvellous exponent of my music’ and this performance proves the point. It is an exciting work and... —
