Jac van Steen
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Samuel’s musical response is something of a tour de force - at once fiercely dramatic and always coherent…Hughes rises to the challenge with bombproof technical strength and control, plenty... —
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Special offer. David Matthews: A Vision of the Sea
RecommendedBBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Jac van Steen
The two pieces at the heart of this release date from 2013, Matthews’s 60th year. They and the two shorter works reveal him at the height of his powers in both abstract and programmatic writing.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Special offer. Grace Williams: Violin Concerto, Elegy for String Orchestra & Sinfonia concertante for Piano & Orchestra
Geneva Lewis (violin), Clare Hammond (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jaime Martín, Ryan Bancroft, Jac van Steen
The Violin Concerto was recorded at a Prom in 2023, and it's a concentrated performance, with a strong sense of the impassioned lyricism of the opening movement. —
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Themes & Variations
Three sets of variations - two previously unrecorded - with contributions from 19 British composers ranging from William Walton to Judith Weir
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jac van Steen
This fascinating disc... offers a snapshot of British musical tastes over the last 50 years —
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Viola Concertos 'signatures of Life - Live!'
Jürg Dähler, Musikkollegium Winterthur, Willi Zimmermann, Heinz Holliger (oboe), David Philip Hefti, Beat Furrer, Schweizer Kammerchor, Jac van Steen
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Henrique Oswald: Piano Concerto & Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 'Egyptian'
Clélia Iruzun (piano), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Jac van Steen
You can never have enough of Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 5, a piece tailor-made to soothe and delight during stressful times. It gets better and better with repeated listenings... We’re... —
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Piano Concertos by Isaac Albeniz & Francisco Mignone
Clélia Iruzun (piano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Jac van Steen
This is a valuable release and very well recorded…[the Mignone] is certainly more enjoyable than any of those by Mignone’s more famous compatriot Villa-Lobos. You can hear in the course of its... —
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Special offer. David Bedford: Alleluia Timpanis
Piers Adams (recorders)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Crouch End Festival Chorus, Jac van Steen, Martyn Brabbins
Someone who can combine the shimmering sounds of Sixties texture music with greater consonance than most would dare deserves his place in the sun. —
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Christian Poltéra plays Dutilleux & Lutoslawski
Christian Poltéra (cello)
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jac van Steen
…Christian Poltéra inevitably courts comparison with the 1975 EMI disc of Rostropovich, for whom both works were written. …in technique there's nothing to choose between them. …the most notable... —
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Special offer. Elgar & Lutoslawski: Cello Concertos
RecommendedPieter Wispelwey (cello)
The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Jac van Steen
The utterly sympathetic performance of the Elgar displays both elasticity and plentiful re-creative fantasy. A notable achievement in every way. —
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Building a Library, June 2014, Recommendation on single disc
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