Alasdair Beatson
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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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Sometimes it’s hard, listening to the Eusebius here, to believe that there are only four musicians playing...from their full-blooded yet flexible tone to their intelligent handling of the ebb... —
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Record Review, 23rd October 2021, Record of the Week
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. Felix & Fanny Mendelssohn: Works for Cello and Piano
RecommendedJohannes Moser (cello), Alasdair Beatson (piano)
Johannes Moser and Alasdair Beatson offer fine, full-blooded performances of all this repertoire. Beatson uses an Érard piano from 1837…allowing for maximum clarity and lightness in rapid passagework,... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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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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Much thought and care have gone into devising this musical love letter to Vienna from Scottish pianist Alasdair Beatson. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2021
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To encounter a programme featuring some of the core works in the horn repertoire played on historically appropriate instruments with such effortless musicianship and technical ease really takes... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Finalist - Chamber
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[Beatson is] undoubtedly a fine player, and in the [Op. 12 No. 1] sonata’s outer movements both he and Mullova convey the full energy and quirkiness of the young Beethoven at his most provocatively... —
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The Glory Tree
Chamber Works by Cheryl Frances-Hoad
Nicholas Daniel (oboe, cor anglais), Nadia Wijzenbeek (violin), Ylvali Zilliacus (viola), Marie Macleod (cello), Alasdair Beatson (piano), Natalia Lomeiko (violin), Leonid Gorokhov (solo cello), Catriona Scott (clarinet), Natalie Raybould (soprano)
Ensemble na Mara, Lenvai String Trio, Instrumentalists...
Frances-Hoad's allegiances are to mainstream modernism, rather than the various popular post-modernist 'isms'. Her compositions may tend towards the sternly ascetic, but they are full of feeling... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2011, Chamber Choice
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My bet is that the first thing you'll notice about this recording is the sound of the instruments: we're no longer in the sleek world of Steinways and gleaming steel-string violins. Instead,... —
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Special offer. Brahms: Cello Sonatas - Stanford: Ballata
Steffan Morris (cello), Alasdair Beatson (piano)
