Matthews, C
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New. Colin Matthews: Seascapes
Claire Booth (soprano), Marcus Farnsworth (baritone), Nash Ensemble, Jessica Cottis
[Booth and the Nash Ensemble] perform everything here with exemplary brilliance. The music seems ideally suited to Booth's well-known vocal flexibility - a luminous fluidity of tone allied to... —
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Special offer. Colin Matthews: Violin Concerto
RecommendedLeila Josefowicz (violin), Anssi Karttunen (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Oliver Knussen, Riccardo Chailly, Rumon Gamba
[Leila Josefowicz has] unlocked a sensuous outpouring from Matthews, a concerto of lithe purpose and natural flow…the fearless Josefowicz brings her unique improvisatory energy, finding exuberant... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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The NMC Songbook
RecommendedSopranos - Claire Booth, Ailish Tynan, Elizabeth Atherton
Mezzo-sopranos - Susan Bickley, Loré Lixenberg, Jean Rigby
Countertenors - James Bowman, Michael Chance, Andrew Watts
Tenors - Andrew Kennedy, Daniel Norman, Benjamin Hulett
Baritones - Stefan Loges, Roderick Williams,...
…anyone listening to these discs will find many things to savour… It is, inevitably an eclectic mix, but, as in any well-planned song recital, the progressions and juxtapositions are continually... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th April 2009
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Contemporary
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Themes & Variations
Three sets of variations - two previously unrecorded - with contributions from 19 British composers ranging from William Walton to Judith Weir
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jac van Steen
This fascinating disc... offers a snapshot of British musical tastes over the last 50 years —
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Special offer. Matthews - Horn Concerto & Alphabicycle Order
Richard Watkins (horn), Henry Goodman (narrator)
Halle, Children’s Choir (Hallé Youth Choir & Cantores Roborienses), Sir Mark Elder, Edward Gardner
I'm not surprised that Colin Matthews says that he hugely enjoyed writing Alphabicycle Order, a setting of 26 nonsense poems by Christopher Reid. The young choristers are plainly having a ball,... —
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…A magisterial performance, closely attentive to detail, in which the continental influences are highlighted as never before… The climax of 'Uranus' is a thriller: a massive build-up, with... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2006, Orchestral Choice
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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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Special offer. Anna Meredith: Triptotage Miniatures; Colin Matthews: Postludes; Alexander Goehr: After The Waking
Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Daniel, Britten Sinfonia, Nash Ensemble, Martyn Brabbins
Meredith’s style doesn’t fit into a particular category…Aurora Orchestra expertly handles the cross-rhythms and changing time signatures…[Goehr’s] Schoenbergian melodic language is beautifully... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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There are some more unusual choices and I think that’s what makes this disc really fascinating. (Francois Xavier-Roth) is someone who is trying to shake things up and I think a major force is... —
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