Instrumental, Frances-Hoad (composer)
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This debut solo album brilliantly played by the rising young organist Anna Lapwood should certainly engage organ aficionados, especially fans of the grand Harrison & Harrison instrument in Ely... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Spatial Audio
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It’s an eclectic mix that combines nostalgia with a modern, shuffle-play sense of adventure. As Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s Bloom finds luminosity in the changing seasons, Huw Watkins’s Arietta suspends... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2021, Chamber Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Winner - Premiere
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There are already more transcriptions of Bach’s D minor Toccata and Fugue BWV 565 than you can shake the proverbial stick at, but Humphreys’s version astutely curates more of Bach’s original... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2024, Instrumental Choice
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It flows from court and folk dances to the waltz, with Gavrić's playing poised throughout. —
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Gavrić's accounts of...perennial favourites...are certainly appealing. More important is her commitment to music that remains unaccountably neglected...But perhaps the most revelatory music... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2014, Editor's Choice
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The Glory Tree
Chamber Works by Cheryl Frances-Hoad
Nicholas Daniel (oboe, cor anglais), Nadia Wijzenbeek (violin), Ylvali Zilliacus (viola), Marie Macleod (cello), Alasdair Beatson (piano), Natalia Lomeiko (violin), Leonid Gorokhov (solo cello), Catriona Scott (clarinet), Natalie Raybould (soprano)
Ensemble na Mara, Lenvai String Trio, Instrumentalists...
Frances-Hoad's allegiances are to mainstream modernism, rather than the various popular post-modernist 'isms'. Her compositions may tend towards the sternly ascetic, but they are full of feeling... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2011, Chamber Choice
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The Dawn of Grace
Christmas Works by Women Composers
Luca Morgante, Somerville College Choir, Oxford, Will Dawes
Innovatively programmed, and sung with an uplifting freshness and alacrity, this is simply irresistible. —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2022, Christmas Choice
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Watkins’s cycle shares Britten’s ability to meld text and musical gesture with an acuity seemingly effortless, almost plucked ready-formed out of the air...An exquisite release touched with... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2023, Recording of the Month
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this Advent showcase features conductors Andrew Nethsingha and George Herbert and, fascinatingly, three iterations of the choir, with and without female voices – and though the performances... —
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Gavrić plays all [the solo works] with clarity, supple grace and a finely shaded colour palette. But it’s the pair of concertos that bookend the programme that are its true heart...The evocative... —
