Musgrave
-
Ventris brings absolute technical assurance and a vivid sense of line...Among the many excellent more contemporary works, Amanda Feery’s Boreal s especially powerful...In all, beautifully performed... —
Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine, March 2023, Instrumental Choice
-
Gramophone Magazine, April 2023, Editor's Choice
-
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Premiere
-
-
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... —
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 20th April 2009
-
Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Contemporary
-
-
No detail escapes her. Confiding, conversational, anguished, enraptured, she inhabits the piece whose instrumental filigree is perfectly judged by the conductorless Ensemble 360. From the delicate,... —
Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine, December 2024, Choral & Song Choice
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
-
-
Violin Conversations
RecommendedMadeleine Mitchell (violin), Andrew Ball, Errollyn Wallen, Wendy Hiscocks, Nigel Clayton, Martin Butler, Kevin Malone, Howard Blake
Mitchell's diverse Violin Conversations is full of riches…a fresh and challenging recital, beautifully played. —
Awards:
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
-
-
Georgia Rogers’s York Minster uses pitches derived from the building’s acoustic fingerprint; if that sounds dry and scientific, the result is a haunting processional, giving a sense of the vast... —
Awards:
-
Presto Editor's Choice, October 2018
-
-
Here’s a debut album full of integrity and care. Lumas Winds is a group of five recent UK conservatoire graduates (lively biographies are available on their website), whose sparky playing lights... —
-
Cantos Sagrados
Ešenvalds, Macmillan, Musgrave, Tippett, Whitacre
National Youth Choir of Scotland, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Christopher Bell
Christopher Bell’s beautifully assembled programme is completed by Biebl’s attractive setting of the Ave Maria. In addition to their impeccable tuning, vocal balance and tone quality, you can... —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, August 2020, Editor's Choice
-
-
Oxana Shevchenko: Winner of the 2010 Scottish International Piano Competition
Oxana Shevchenko (piano)
This is the most exciting debut disc to come my way for some time...It will only take the opening bars of "Alborada" to convince you what a fine Ravel player she is...while Thea Musgrave's specially... —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, April 2011, Editor's Choice
-
-
Thea Musgrave: Concertos, Monologue & Excursions
Thea Musgrave (piano) & Malcolm Williamson (piano), Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), Barry Tuckwell (horn)
Scottish National Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Gibson, Norman Del Mar
Three resounding cheers for the appearance on CD at last of the three Thea Musgrave concertos. …some of the most convincing and thrilling orchestral pieces that have been written anywhere in... —
-
Special offer. Thea Musgrave: The Voices of Our Ancestors
The New York Virtuoso Songers, Harold Rosenbaum
The exultant, dramatic Rorate Coeli from 1973...is by far the best showcase for Harold Rosenbaum’s bold and fearless New York Virtuoso Singers, singing lustily and unaccompanied, but elsewhere... —
Purchase product
CD
Original price ($19.25) Reduced price $8.66Only 10 left at clearance priceMaximum 1 purchase per customerClearance prices not guaranteed until checkout is completedDownloads
Audio formats guide
