Tabakova
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Dobrinka Tabakova: Sun Triptych
Maxim Rysanov (viola), Dasol Kim (piano), Roman Mints (violin, hurdygurdy), Kristina Blaumane (cello), BBC Concert Orchestra, Dobrinka Tabakova
Perhaps the most engaging work in this recital is the Sun Triptych, a three-movement nature piece for violin, cello and strings that traces the movement of light from dawn to dusk. Here, Tabakova... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2025, Orchestral Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Winner - Premiere
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Special offer. Dobrinka Tabakova: Orpheus' Comet, Earth Suite & Concertos
Maxim Rysanov (viola), Guy Johnston (cello), Hallé Orchestra, Delyana Lazarova
Complex but richly communicative, her compositions demonstrate this blend [of mind and heart' to a tee...Beautifully performed and recorded, this is a first-rate release, offering a timely showcase... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2023, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Dobrinka Tabakova: String Paths
Maxim Rysanov (viola, conductor), Kristina Blaumane, Torleif Thedéen, Boris Andrianov (cello), Roman Mints, Janine Jansen, Julia- Maria Kretz (violin), Amihai Grosz (viola), Raimondas Sviackevicius (accordion), Donatas Bagurskas, Stacey Watton (double bass) & Vaiva Eidukaityte-Storastiene (harpsichord)
Lithuanian...
Tabakova writes for her chosen instruments with disarming naturalness and enthusiasm...Contemporary music, in short, that's amazingly easy on the ear. —
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Special offer. Voices of Thunder - Works for Choir & Organ
The Choir of Magdalen College Oxford, Mark Williams
The installation of a new pipe organ, like any long-awaited new arrival, is always best marked with some kind of celebratory fanfare such as this splendid, generously filled disc...Another triumph... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2025, Editor's Choice
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Dobrinka Tabakova: Kynance Cove, On the South Downs, and Works for Choir
Natalie Clein (cello)
Truro Cathedral Choir, BBC Concert Orchestra, Joseph Wicks, Christopher Gray
Like much other music written for cathedral choirs, the works on this disc often inhabit an engaging post-Vaughan Williams world, with a periodic sprinkling of spice in the harmony, but nothing... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Lament & Liberation
Kevin Ke (soprano), Samuel Smith (soprano), Montague Tatnell (soprano), Ingrid Birchall (soprano), Joseph Hancock (soprano), Arthur Cobb (soprano), Alice Markham (vocalist), James Gant (tenor), Martha Gritten (soprano), Matthew Monaghan (vocalist), Alexander Robson, Choir of St John's College Cambridge,...
Christopher Gray’s first album with St John’s College is an unflinchingly serious programme of contemporary music, ambitious and challenging for both singers and listeners alike...The choir’s... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2025, Choral Choice
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All through this collection, the playing of Sinfonietta Riga under founder-director Normunds Šnē confirms why it ranks among the leading such ensembles in Europe in the 17 years of its existence.... —
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Special offer. Around the World in 80 Minutes
Coco Tomita (violin), Yume Tomita, Rebecca You, Jana Jakovljevic, Mariam Obolashvili, Vadym Perig, Robin Wilson, Ashley Wass (piano), Levi Andreassen, Nathan Perry, Mischa Carr, Alasdair Howell, Zeynep Özden, Richard Zhang, Henry Lin, Simon Nivy, Kotone Ozaki, Jason Zheng, Jude Usborne, Clara Wernig,...
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Christophers’s juxtapositions are always rewarding, and The Sixteen is on ravishing form. There’s an unmannered generosity to the singing whose wide-eyed freshness enables Christophers to keep... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2023, Choral & Song Choice
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