Ryan Wigglesworth
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Special offer. Birtwistle: Night’s Black Bird
RecommendedOwen Slade (tuba)
The Hallé Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth
these are among the most powerful orchestral pieces of recent years...Wigglesworth and the Halle give performances of amazing concentration, accuracy and passion, aided by recorded sound of... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Winner - Contemporary
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, Premiere Recording of the Year
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Special offer. Huw Watkins: Flute Concerto, Violin Concerto and Symphony
Adam Walker (flute), Alina Ibragimova (violin)
Hallé, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth, Edward Gardner
Cast in the conventional three movements, [the Flute Concerto] dances through a musical landscape full of light and shade. Its invigorating sense of pace and momentum is beautifully caught by... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Earth, Sea, Air: British Music For Cello and Orchestra
RecommendedLaura van der Heijden (cello), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth
Van der Heijden is mesmerising, her intense, focused tone powerfully articulating its pained rhetoric, her keening lyricism punctuated with grittier, muscular anger. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 8
RecommendedLondon Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, Ryan Wigglesworth
[Jurowski] keeps sonority and expression taut, yet in a way that gives the orchestra time to play. They respond superbly, alighting on the music's idiom - the 80-year-old Vaughan Williams's... —
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Building A Library, May 2022, Also Recommended
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Julian Anderson: Fantasias, The Crazed Moon & The Discovery of Heaven
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, Ryan Wigglesworth
[The Discovery of Heaven] combines the spacious and the frenetic, timelessness and urgency, within an overall sense of luminosity. Fantasias (2009) is a magnificent showpiece for 21st-century... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Contemporary
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Michael Zev Gordon: The Impermanence of Things
Michael Zev Gordon, Catherine Larsen-Maguire, Carolin Widmann, Huw Watkins (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, London Sinfonietta, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Ryan Wigglesworth
Gordon says that for years he has been ‘mixing together diverse materials and styles in the same piece’ which sounds easier than it is, and these three works all demonstrate a fine composer’s... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2024, Concerto Choice
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Dai Fujikura: IMPULSE - Piano Concerto No. 3 / Maurice Ravel: Concerto pour Piano et Orchestre, etc.
Yu Kosuge (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth
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Onyx Brass (brass ensemble), Sandrine Piau (soprano), Jane Manning (soprano), Roger Smalley, Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian, Ziazan, Mark Padmore (tenor), Richard Watkins (horn), Huw Watkins (piano), Thomas Hewitt Jones, Ruby Philogene, Lawrence Zazzo, Timothy Dawkins, Philip Sheffield, Jeremy Huw Williams...
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…Edward Higginbottom and his choir deliver accurate and often spirited performances… —
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they are - Das Internationale Kompositionsseminar
Ensemble Modern (performer), Franck Ollu, Alejo Peréz, John Hedges, Ryan Wigglesworth, Manuel Nawri, Johannes Kalitzke, Pablo Rus Broseta
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