Simon Crawford-Phillips
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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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Bruch: Piano Trio & Other Chamber Music
Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano), Stephanie Gonley (violin), Adrian Brendel (cello), Lawrence Power (viola), Jonathan Stone (violin), The Nash Ensemble
Taking their cue from Stephanie Gonley’s first-violin leadership, the Trio and Quartet performances have a classy verve that convinces strongly, although the lower strings feel rather too hectoring... —
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New. Sebastian Fagerlund: Beneath
Simon Crawford-Philips, Kungsbacka Piano Trio, Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, Malin Broman
To be simplistic about it, the best of the works is the biggest - the string-orchestra score with 'leader' soloist Beneath, written in part as a study for one of the characters in Fagerlund's... —
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Lawrence Power and Simon Crawford-Phillips find a much greater variety of resonances in the score than is often the case. They embark on a musical narrative of epic proportions...For the most... —
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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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York Bowen - Complete Works for Viola & Piano
Lawrence Power (viola) & Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano), Philip Dukes, James Boyd & Scott Dickinson (violas)
Following his successful recording of Bowen' Concerto, Lawrence Power turns to this repertoire with similar technical ease, and persuasively idiomatic tempo inflections and portamenti (slides). —
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It's good to hear his music brilliantly performed by musicians of the Nash Ensemble...The Grand Sextet is a splendidly heroic work, with its virtuoso pianism enthusiastically delivered here... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2022, Chamber Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Hindemith: The Complete Viola Music Volume 1
Sonatas
Lawrence Power (viola) & Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano)
…the 1939 Sonata that opens this disc… receives a decisive performance from Lawrence Power and Simon Crawford-Phillips. The Sonata Op. 11 No. 4, dating from 1919, is written in Hindemith's... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2009, Editor's Choice
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Power and Crawford-Phillips are a superb duo, matching their depth and richness of tone with an energetic, passionate approach, and the warm sound lets them shine. —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
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Daniel Hope - Belle Époque
Daniel Hope (violin), Lise de la Salle (piano), Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano), Zürcher Kammerorchester
It’s all very tastefully done, if rather insubstantial. —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year
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