Douglas Boyd
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The Romantic Violin Concerto 13 - Schumann
Anthony Marwood (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Douglas Boyd
Marwood's tone is notably characteristically focused with a notable sweetness which is matched by Wallin...Boyd and his Scottish players set ideal tempi in outer movements, enabling Marwood... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2012, Editor's Choice
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Thirty years ago, 'chamber orchestra' Beethoven was considered to be a mildly interesting eccentricity; nowadays it is practically de rigueur. The Chamber Orchestra of Europe blazed the trail.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2008, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Rheinberger: Complete Organ Concertos
Stefan Johannes Bleicher (organ), with Cäcilia Chmel (cello)
Musikkollegium Winterthur, Douglas Boyd
Stefan Johannes Bleicher is a stylish soloist...I'd encourage anyone interested in late nineteenth-century repertoire to explore this stirring disc, especially as the recorded sound is superb... —
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It may be just the very focused recording but the buzz in the air is almost palpable, along with Boyd’s audible enjoyment of the music...‘These symphonies are not museum pieces!’ proclaims Boyd,... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Gautier Capuçon (cello), Deborah Nemtanu (violin), Franck Braley (piano), Renaud Capuçon (violin), Frank Braley (piano), Gabriela Montero (piano), Michel Dalberto (piano), Aude Capuçon (piano), Martha Argerich (piano), Lida Chen (viola), Gerard Causse (viola), Nicholas Angelich (piano), Yuja Wang...
Capuçon gives me practically everything I could want in a performance of [the Kodály] – narrative sweep, vibrant colour and rhythmic vitality as well as a wealth of soulful expressive detail,... —
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The First Symphony receives one of the most enjoyable performances I have heard for a long time, and one of the most detailed. —
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Douglas Boyd and his incisive players are particularly good in No 8. In the finale, the exemplary clarity of texture brings out exhilaratingly the subversiveness of the music. —
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Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Jane Irwin (mezzo-soprano) & Peter Wedd (tenor)
Manchester Camerata, Douglas Boyd
[The arrangement] works remarkably well...This performance under the greatly gifted Douglas Boyd is impressive...in this recording many interesting details come to light, and the soloists are... —
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Mendelssohn: The First Walpurgis Night, & Overtures
Zürcher Sing-Akademie, Musikkollegium Winterthur, Douglas Boyd
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For most listeners it is the great Adagio of Rodrigo's Concierto that decides their view of a performance, and to them Charles Ramirez and Douglas Boyd will have delivered a must-hear. The initial... —
