Sawyers
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Special offer. Philip Sawyers: Symphonic Music for Strings and Brass
Grand Rapids Symphony, David Lockington
[Grand Rapids] stands up as a remarkable achievement for a student composer of barely 21. There's some Shostakovich in there too, and, like his models, Sawyer's discourse is well paced and logical,... —
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Special offer. Philip Sawyers: Cello Concerto & Symphony No. 2
Maja Bogdanovic (cello)
Orchestra Of The Swan, Steinberg Duo: Louisa Stonehill (violin) & Nicholas Burns (piano), Kenneth Woods
performed here with thrilling conviction and formidable assurance...Sawyers's excitingly integrated music marries a genuine lyrical impulse to a genuine thematic substance and marvellously invigorating... —
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Special offer. Philip Sawyers: Symphony No. 4 & Hommage to Kandinsky
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Kenneth Woods
Kenneth Woods is in his element with this kind of music, and the excellent musicians of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales are cleanly and spaciously recorded. Indeed, sound quality is an improvement... —
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Special offer. Sawyers: Symphony No. 3, Songs of Loss and Regret & Fanfare
April Fredrick (soprano)
English Symphony Orchestra, English String Orchestra, Kenneth Woods
Philip Sawyers’s Third Symphony (2015) is undoubtedly one of the finest British symphonies of recent years…The performance is terrific, and terrifically committed, superbly marshalled by Kenneth... —
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Sawyers: Double Concerto for Violin & Cello
Daniel Rowland (violin/viola), Maja Bogdanović (cello)
English Symphony Orchestra, English String Orchestra, Kenneth Woods
The best piece is the simplest and shortest: Remembrance, again from 2020, a memorial for a friend and colleague’s late parents, but eloquent enough to serve us all well in dark times . It ’s... —
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Sawyers: Mayflower on the Sea of Time (Live)
April Frederick, Thomas Humphreys, Brittany King, Amelia Jones, English Symphony Orchestra, English Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Kenneth Woods
Attractive and tonally vibrant, Mayflower on the Sea of Time divides into four parts, played continuously. —
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Special offer. Philip Sawyers: Concertos
Alexander Sitkovetsky, Simon Desbruslais, English Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Woods
Sawyers’s thrilling orchestral music truly captivates, aided and abetted by pitch-perfect soloists Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin) and Simon Desbruslais (trumpet) and the ESO. —
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Special offer. Elgar & Sawyers: Violin Sonatas
Steinberg Duo: Louisa Stonehill (violin) & Nicholas Burns (piano)
firmly tonal, with violin-writing that similarly reveals Sawyers's gift for exploiting the full expressive and technical range of the violin...it is good to welcome two works to the repertory... —
