Wright, C
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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 (new edition)
and works by Christopher Wright
Fenella Humphreys (violin), Christopher Watson (tenor)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Martin Yates
Wright's idiom - both listener-friendly and superbly skilled, with never a wasted note - has no problems sustaining a 35-minute design. Violinist Fenella Humphreys responds to its elegiac reflection... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, Orchestral Choice
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Evocation - String and Orchestral Music by Christopher Wright
Recorded: Angel Studios, London, 15 March 2007 & 9 July 2007; St Thomas’ Church, Stockport, 19 January 2009
Maxwell Spiers (cor anglais), John Turner (treble recorder)
Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Manchester Sinfonia, Gavin Sutherland, Barry Wordsworth, Christopher Wright
a sequence of attractive works in a relatively conservative idiom...[The Idyll and Divertimento are] beautifully played by the Manchester Sinfonia conducted by the composer. —
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Special offer. Christopher Wright; Nicholas Barton: Orchestral Music
Richard Watkins (horn), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, John Andrews
John Andrews conducts superbly committed performances of these very fine, often gripping works and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra are their very best throughout. Excellent recording. —
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Pied Piper
A celebration of the life & work of David Munrow (1942-1976)
Diana Quick (narrator), Lesley-Jane Rogers (soprano), Nicholas Clapton (countertenor), John Turner (recorders), Jonathan Price (cello), Michael Harper (percussion)
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Mark Forkgen and his versatile chamber choir Canticum are obviously fully committed to Wright’s music and have done him proud. —
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Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, Cyril Scott, Christopher Wright & Elis Pehkonen: Oboe Concertos
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
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Pandora’s Last Gift
Chamber Music by Christopher Wright
Nichola Hunter, Lisa Osborne, Elizabeth Jordan (clarinet), Sarah Nixon, Elizabeth Atherton, Richard Williamson, Jonathan Fisher, Tim Smedley, John Turner (recorder), Richard Howarth, Harvey Davies, Lesley-Jane Rogers (soprano), Catherine Muncey, Michael Dale, Nicholas Ward
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As usual, with any project that John Turner turns his hand to, this is a major success. From the playing of both the soloists that is perfect, through the liner-notes, the design of the CD and... —
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Now Comes Beauty
commissions from The English Music Festival
Rupert Marshall-Luck (violin), Roderick Williams (baritone), David Owen Norris (piano)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Gavin Sutherland, Owain Arwel Hughes
A great deal of it is very enjoyable, and perhaps most encouraging of all is the sense that something genuinely new and fresh – rather than just superficially novel – could emerge from this... —
