Owain Arwel Hughes
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Special offer. Welsh Music For Strings
RecommendedJessica Robinson, Côr Llundain, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Owain Arwel Hughes
Premiere recordings one and all, and an hour-long selection that will surely afford much pleasure...Prospective purchasers can rest assured that Owain Arwel Hughes obtains consistently spry... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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In form the symphonic metamorphosis is an offshoot of the symphonic fantasia (but of a kind radically different from Sibelius's Pohjola's Daughter), each of these four very different from its... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Hughes gives us a very direct performance of [No.1], free of any interpretative exaggeration. The playing of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is first class in all departments...Hughes’s account... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2020, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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The Fire that Breaks from Thee
RecommendedViolin Concertos by Milford and Stanford
Rupert Marshall-Luck (violin)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Owain Arwel Hughes
[The Stanford] is a wonderfully fluent, warm-hearted creation...Dashingly committed treatment it enjoys, too, from Rupert Marshall-Luck, whoe receives uncommonly fine support from Owain Arwel... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th May 2014
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Vagn Holmboe - Concertos
Noriko Ogawa (piano), Martin Fröst (clarinet), Gordon Hunt (oboe)
Danish National Opera Choir, Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, Owain Arwel Hughes
A word about nomenclature. Holmboe composed 13 chamber concertos between 1939 and 1956 as a series with small-orchestral accompaniment, similar but not so homogeneous a set as Hindemith's Kammermusiken.... —
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This third and final disc in Owain Arwel Hughes’s survey of all Sibelius’s numbered symphonies with the RPO opens with an impressive account of the Fifth – lacking only perhaps a little in visceral... —
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It's striking how many of the New English Hymnal's favourites are actually VW's own creations, mostly as 'Anon'. Hughes and his Cardiff voices do robust justice to this richly melodic selection. —
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The French players seem perfectly drilled in the intricate rhythmic complexities of Walton's often jagged writing in these highly enjoyable performances, which also bring out the lyrical warmth... —
