Oliver Knussen
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Special offer. Elliott Carter: Late Works
RecommendedPierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Colin Currie (percussion), Isabelle Faust (violin), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Oliver Knussen
brimming with youthful energy and Haydnesque, impish wit...Aimard brings fluent delicacy to the concertos and the orchestral soundings. He is matched in filigree precision by co-protagonists,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th December 2017
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Jury Award - Premiere
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Orchestral
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Special offer. Oliver Knussen: Autumnal
Alexandra Wood (violin), Huw Watkins (piano), Claire Booth (soprano), Ryan Wigglesworth (piano), Leila Josefowicz (violin); BBC Symphony Orchestra, BCMG, Oliver Knussen
this CD should do more than any live performance to tell the world what a treasure he is. The Walton-esque Violin Concerto, Knussen’s masterpiece, is played with dazzling artistry by Josefowicz...[the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Finalist - Contemporary
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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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Special offer. Tansy Davies: Nature
RecommendedHuw Watkins (piano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Karen Kamensek, Oliver Knussen
Shamanism and the human fascination with divine energy is a recurring theme in Tansy Davies’s work. The piano loosely represents a spiritual intermediary in Nature (2012)...Davies characterises... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Special offer. Britten: The Rape of Lucretia
Angelika Kirchschlager (Lucretia), Peter Coleman-Wright (Tarquinius), Ian Bostridge (Male Chorus), Susan Gritton (Female Chorus), Christopher Purves (Collatinus), Benjamin Russell (Junius), Claire Booth (Lucia), Hilary Summers (Bianca)
Aldeburgh Festival Ensemble, Oliver Knussen
Without hurrying, Knussen conducts a tight, vivid account, surpassing Britten's own...Ian Bostridge and Susan Gritton as Male and Female Chorus project their rhetorical commentaries with exemplary... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Opera Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2013, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Finalist - Opera
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Special offer. Davies, Peter Maxwell: Taverner
Martyn Hill (Taverner), David Wilson-Johnson (Jester), Stephen Richardson (Henry VIII), Fiona Kimm (Virgin Mary), Michael Chance (Priest/God), Quentin Hayes (White Abbot) & Peter Sidhom (Richard Taverner)
Fretwork, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta Voices, His Majestys Sagbutts...
The opera is full… bitterly ironic juxtapositions, such as the 'holy' chanting from monks heard against the cynical Realpolitik of the negotiations between King and the Cardinal. Making the... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Opera
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Opera, April 2010, Recording of the Month
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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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Special offer. Colin Matthews: Violin Concerto
RecommendedLeila Josefowicz (violin), Anssi Karttunen (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Oliver Knussen, Riccardo Chailly, Rumon Gamba
[Leila Josefowicz has] unlocked a sensuous outpouring from Matthews, a concerto of lithe purpose and natural flow…the fearless Josefowicz brings her unique improvisatory energy, finding exuberant... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Henze: Heliogabalus Imperator
Works for Orchestra
Anssi Karttunen (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Knussen
It’s hard to imagine finer performances than we get here, and the BBC recording captures everything well. Strongly recommended for Henze fans, and for those who aren’t. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Assorted Program
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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British Music Collection - Mark-Anthony Turnage
Cynthia Clarey (mezzo), Martin Robertson (Saxophone), Gareth Hulse (oboe, cor anglais), Helen Tunstall (harp), John Constable (celesta), John Wallace (trumpet), Håkan Hardenberger, John Wallace (trumpets)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Philharmonia Orchestra,...
