Download, Bowen (composer)
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Namoradze brings a deft touch to these charming works [the Andersen Fragments], teasing out their respective tenderness, melancholy and wit with subtlety and poise…[In the Op. 46 Studies] Namoradze... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2021, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, Instrumental Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Danny Driver, whose debut on Hyperion was an acclaimed recording of Bowen's Third and Fourth piano concertos, is the ideal advocate for this glorious music, playing with razor-sharp articulation... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Instrumental
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2009, Editor's Choice
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A Lionel Tertis Celebration
RecommendedTimothy Ridout (viola), Frank Dupree (piano), James Baillieu (piano)
From imposing sonatas to salon bonbons, these recordings constitute a deft salute not just to Tertis the man and multifaceted musician, but also to an enduring legacy which lives on in distinguished... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th January 2024
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Chamber
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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This most welcome second volume of British overtures serves to accentuate the sheer diversity of works this country produced in the genre between the 1890s and the 1940s and, moreover, where... —
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they're deftly written and inventive, and realised here in spirited, thoroughly sympathetic performances —
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York Bowen - Complete Works for Viola & Piano
Lawrence Power (viola) & Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano), Philip Dukes, James Boyd & Scott Dickinson (violas)
Following his successful recording of Bowen' Concerto, Lawrence Power turns to this repertoire with similar technical ease, and persuasively idiomatic tempo inflections and portamenti (slides). —
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Danny Driver's stylish and immaculate playing makes an outstanding case for some technically demanding music. One for English music aficionados. —
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York Bowen could have no more ardent or pianistically adroit advocate —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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British Violin Sonatas Vol. 3
Bowen, Ireland, Alwyn, Brown, Coates
Tasmin Little (violin), Piers Lane (piano)
The performers respond to both aspects of [Bowen's] music with muscular virtuosity and affection. Especially in the high tessitura of the slow movement, Tasmin Little’s tonal variety and rhythmic... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Winner - Chamber
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The very opening item, Rawsthorne's four Bagatelles, instantly makes it clear that this latest recital disc from Stephen Hough has a different aim from his previous collections of charmers.... —
