Anderson, Julian
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Special offer. Julian Anderson: Alhambra Fantasy
RecommendedBBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Oliver Knussen
Anderson's confidence in handling and shaping his musical material and his wonderfully precise ear for instrumental colour have been constants in his music… Oliver Knussen's beautifully integrated... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th October 2008
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2006, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2006, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Contemporary
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Hill places the new work within an exceptionally well-crafted recital in which Messiaen's music is a recurrent thread in a span of resonances, influences and affinities...Whether in Dutilleux... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2014, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2014, Editor's Choice
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Julian Anderson: Fantasias, The Crazed Moon & The Discovery of Heaven
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, Ryan Wigglesworth
[The Discovery of Heaven] combines the spacious and the frenetic, timelessness and urgency, within an overall sense of luminosity. Fantasias (2009) is a magnificent showpiece for 21st-century... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Contemporary
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Special offer. Julian Anderson: Book of Hours
Lamberto Coccioli & Scott Wilson (electronics)
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Oliver Knussen, Martyn Brabbins & Sakari Oramo
The dazzling Book of Hours, composed for the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, is one of Anderson's greatest achievements so far, building from the simplest beginning - the first four notes... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Contemporary
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2006, Editor's Choice
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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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Julian Anderson: In lieblicher Bläue, Alleluia, The Stations of the Sun
RecommendedCarolin Widmann (violin)
London Philharmonic Choir & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
Carolin Widman is superb as the often diaphanous, yet frequently impulsive soloist negotiating an uneasy relationship with the orchestra in this recording of the world premiere. Vladimir Jurowski... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2017, Premiere Winner
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Concerto
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Special offer. Julian Anderson: Choral Music
Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Geoffrey Webber
This is ravishing…Webber and the Choir of Gonville & Caius, Cambridge, shimmer and scintillate in conveying Anderson’s broad musical and emotional palette. It is clear that all involved have... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2018, Choral & Song Choice
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Special offer. Anderson: Heaven Is Shy Of Earth
Susan Bickley (mezzo)
London Sinfonietta, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Oliver Knussen
Heaven is Shy of Earth is a substantial work of intriguing paradoxes…Gloriously uplifting and luminescent, it has dark threads and exudes both a striking simplicity and a numinous complexity…Anderson’s... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Contemporary
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Nethsingha asks a lot of his 33 singers in terms of nuance and dynamic contrast – far more than most collegiate choirs are capable of – and their corporate virtuosity is palpable in a thrillingly... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2021, Editor's Choice
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Sanctissima
RecommendedVespers and Benediction For the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary
ORA Singers, Suzi Digby
Olivier Tarney’s awestruck depiction of the Assumption in In Homeward Flight – the only English-language setting on the programme – was the work which made the strongest initial impact on me,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th August 2023
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