Blackford
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Special offer. Richard Blackford: La Sagrada Familia Symphony & Babel, A Cantata
Rebecca Bottone (soprano), Alessandro Fisher (tenor), Stephen Gadd (baritone)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Ikon Singers & Ensemble, Richard Blackford, David Hill
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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. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Special offer. Blackford: Voices Of Exile
Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano), Gregory Kunde (tenor) & Gerald Finley (baritone)
The Bach Choir, New London Children’s Choir & The Philharmonia Orchestra, David Hill
Starry forces combine to give a concentrated performance of Blackford's brooding meditation on the refugee experience, setting text in 13 languages. —
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Special offer. Richard Blackford: Mirror of Perfection; Vision of A Garden
Roderick Williams (baritone), Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Stephen Gadd, Ikon, Britten Sinfonia, Bach Choir, Philharmonia Orchestra, David Hill
Blackford’s 1996 Mirror of Perfection is a big-boned and breathtaking opener, while the more recent Vision of a Garden – based on Peter Johnstone’s ‘ICU Diaries’ written while in hospital with... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2022, Editor's Choice
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Blackford’s meditation on beauty is both sophisticated and appealing and is thrillingly performed. But beware: the CD is only 24 minutes long. —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
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Special offer. Blackford: Not In Our Time
Paul Nilon (tenor), Stephen Gadd (baritone), Christopher Dowie (organ)
Bournemouth Symphony Chorus & Youth Chorus & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Gavin Carr
Blackford's music is gesturally direct, aiming for visceral impact in the scrunching orchestral discord that represents the moment the Twin Towers collapsed...the performance shows exemplary... —
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Special offer. Emily Pailthorpe: Better Angels
Emily Pailthorpe (oboe)
BBC Symohony Orchestra & BBCSO Soloists, Martyn Brabbins
Brabbins nurtures the orchestra’s proliferating counter-melodies, and the recording renders them all clearly, though without ever making the BBC SO sound like the ‘small orchestra’ Strauss specified —
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Special offer. Richard Blackford: Instrumental Works
Maria Gajdosova, David Campbell, Emily Pailthorpe
[the Violin Concerto is] an appealing piece and finely played by Maria Gajdosova; but the Clarinet Quintet is more engrossing in the way that its three movements outline an ultimately tragic... —
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His writing is thematically concentrated, notably evocative and clearly heartfelt. It is close to Szymanowski in sound and in its solutions in pitting a solo violin against a lustrous orchestra.... —
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Oboe Divas!
Operatic Duos and Ensembles from Handel to Wagner
Emily Pailthorpe (oboe) & Elaine Douvas (oboe)
with members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, New York & the London CONCHORD Ensemble
This program embodies what I love about opera and music so much. It runs a wide spectrum of emotions depicted in music, from nonchalance to determination, from the carefree joy in the simple... —
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