Elias, B
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Imaginative, sensitive programming has been a constant feature of Ruby Hughes’s collaborations; and this latest with the perennially adventurous Manchester Collective is no exception...A disc... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Voice & Ensemble
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Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
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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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Brian Elias: Music For Strings
Castalian Quartet, Natalie Clein (cello), Danny Driver (piano), Thomas Kemp
All are dedicated performers in compositions of textural and rhy thmic sophistication – but it’s the work for solo viola, But When I Sleep, that packs an emotional punch, sensitively performed... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2024, Editor's Choice
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Brian Elias: Music For Wind
Adam MacKenzie (bassoon), David Zucchi, Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Mark Simpson (clarinet), Amy Harman (bassoon), Chamber Domaine, Sacconi Quartet, Thomas Kemp
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A wonderful snapshot of music being written in Britain now. Better still, these pieces have been written for us all to play. —
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Special offer. Brian Elias: 5 Ratushinskaya Songs
Mary King (mezzo), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, Martyn Brabbins, Tadaaki Otaka
Shot through with furious dark passion —
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It almost goes without saying that the Endymion players are first-rate advocates for these works...there is a diversity of approach from composers young and not so young here, suggesting British... —
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Special offer. Brian Elias: Electra Mourns
Roderick Williams (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano), Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano) & Nicholas Daniel (cor anglais)
Psappha, Britten Sinfonia, Nicholas Kok, Clark Rundell
This recording [of Geranos] alternates baritone and mezzo, with Roderick Williams bringing an elegant lyricism to the opening song and Susan Bickley a touching vulnerability to 'Love's Pains'...Bickley... —
