Pickard
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John Pickard: Mass in Troubled Times
Chloë Abbott (trumpet), David Goode (organ), BBC Singers, Martyn Brabbins
This is a marvellous collection, featuring impeccable production values and sound of flawless realism in the best BIS tradition. Not to be missed! —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Contemporary
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John Pickard: Symphonies 2 & 6; Verlaine Songs
Emma Tring (soloist), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Martyn Brabbins
These performances by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Martyn Brabbins’s cogent guidance excite admiration for their unstinting dedication and breathtaking accomplishment. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Finalists, Contemporary
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Special offer. John Pickard: The Gardener of Aleppo
and other Chamber Works
Susan Bickley (mezzo), Nash Ensemble, Martyn Brabbins
Pickard has a compositional voice that is truly sui generis. Each work sounds different from any of the others (the composer’s stated goal) and all are expertly performed by members of the Nash... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2020, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Winner - Contemporary
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most pieces here speak powerfully enough to justify the back cover's claim that the project 'transforms love into something you can hear'. Some stretch far beyond their shortish span...You won't... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2017, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. John Pickard: 16 Sunrises & Symphony No. 5
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Martyn Brabbins
The music fair kidnaps the listener's attention at the outset and does not random it until the gripping, wholly satisfying close...The performance by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales is stunning... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Contemporary
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Special offer. John Pickard: Songs
Simon Lepper (piano), Roderick Williams (baritone), Eve Daniell (soprano)
These songs are a model of word-setting in their clarity of focus, the music truly interpreting and providing context for Binyon’s poems…Simon Lepper accompanies both singers in exemplary fashion.... —
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Special offer. John Pickard: Tenebrae, Piano Concerto & Sea-Change
Fredrik Ullén (piano)
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
This may be one of the most important contemporary orchesral CDs of 2013...Brabbins puts plenty of fire into the Norrköping players in presenting this full-blooded, ferociously positive music.... —
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Pickard: String Quartets
Sorrel Quartet: Gina McCormack (violin), Catherine Yates (violin), Sarah-Jane Bradley (viola), Helen Thatcher (cello)
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The common thread binding this enterprising CD together is not so much the music itself as the relationship between teacher and pupil...The more adventurous language of Reeves is closer to Grange... —
