Alexander Baillie
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Special offer. Arnold Bax: Spring Fire - Complete Music For Cello & Piano
Alexander Baillie (cello), John Thwaites (piano)
Baillie and Thwaites's commitment and love of this repertoire still shine through, helped by a recording lively and immediate enough for the performers to sound only a few inches away. —
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Special offer. Holst: A Winter Idyll & other orchestral works
Alexander Baillie (cello), Lorraine McAslan (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra, David Atherton
Holstians will need no urging to acquire this interesting, well-played and well-recorded disc. —
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Special offer. Colin Matthews
Alexander Baillie (cello)
London Sinfonietta, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, John Carewe, Michael Tilson Thomas
This set offers a rounded portrait of a restlessly questing composer … big architectonic pieces in performances of impressive might under Carewe —
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These are passionate, focused, full-blooded readings without a hint of reticence or apology. Alexander Baillie and John Thwaites invest each work with the power of utter belief, and as a result... —
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2013, Chamber Choice
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The British Cello Phenomenon
A survey of 29 great performers
John Barbirolli, Douglas Cameron, Raymond Clark, Alan Dalziel, Jaqueline du Pré, Beatrice Harrison, Keith Harvey, Thomas Igloi, Lauri Kennedy, Reg Kilbey, Anthony Pini, William Pleeth, Felix Salmond, Cedric Sharpe, W.H. Squire, Alexander Bailllie, Colin Carr, Robert Cohen, Douglas Cummings, Clive...
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Minna Keal: Cello Concerto & Ballade
Alexander Baillie (cello), with Martina Baillie (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony, Martyn Brabbins
[Keal's] 22-minute Cello Concerto (1988-94) is a superb achievement, tautly crafted, terse in its distinctive Anglo-European idiom, yet with an emotional charge that becomes increasingly apparent. —
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This is an excellent showcase of British compositional talent and an effective antidote for anyone who thinks contemporary music has either gone soft of remains stubbornly modernist, neither... —
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New Stock - Sampler
William Howard (piano), Lucy Shelton, Sarah Leonard (soprano), Eileen Hulse, David White, John Wallace (trumpet), Marcia Crayford, Chi-chi Nwanokwu, Ian Brown, Manoug Parikian, Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano), Anton Lukoszevieze (cello), Corrado Canonici, Alexander Baillie (cello), William Conway, Ernst...
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From folky Moeran to the more intense demands of sonatas by Britten, Rodney Bennett and James MacMillan, this is an excellent introduction to British cello music. —
