Chamber, Matthews, D (composer)
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Matthews describes the Leonore Piano Trio’s lively and evocative performance as ‘definitive’. Their cellist, Gemma Rosefield, gives equally searching accounts of Journeying Songs —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2017, Editor's Choice
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David Matthews: Winter Passions
Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Stephan Loges (baritone)
The Nash Ensemble, Lionel Friend
The writing has many of David Matthews's familiar strengths: a fine sensuous imagination, adventurous harmony that makes clear aural sense, an equally clear sense of organic development of ideas...It's... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Contemporary
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2010, Editor's Choice
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Trickey’s Telemann is authoritative and stylish, and her Prokofiev is ebullient...Amidst stylistic versatility, Trickey’s album also serves as a testament to the creativity of contemporary British... —
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Both of these works [the Moeran and the Rawsthorne] benefit, as does the recital as a whole, from superbly responsive playing by Harriet Mackenzie and Philippa Mo - who project the music's often... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2013, Editor's Choice
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Not only our most prominent symphonist, Matthews leads the way in maintaining the time-honoured genre of the string quartet...The Kreutzers’ performances are deeply felt. —
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Piano Quintets by David Matthews and Dmitri Shostakovich
Martin Cousin (piano)
Villiers String Quartet
this account of the Russian’s Opus 57, composed in 1940, from Martin Cousin and the Villiers Quartet doesn’t force the pace or the emotional content, but rather lets the score speak for itself... —
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Sea Eagle (works for horn)
Richard Watkins (horn), Mark Padmore (tenor) & Huw Watkins (piano), Paul Watkins (cello) & Huw Watkins (piano), Laura Samuel (violin) & Huw Watkins (piano), Paul Watkins (cello)
The Nash Ensemble
The quality of the works on offer here should make this release appeal well beyond the ranks of new music aficionados; and the near-flawless performances provide their own recommendation...[Watkins's]... —
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All are played with a flabbergasting combination of precision and sponteneity by the Brindisi Quartet —
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