Instrumental, Watkins, H (composer)
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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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Unsurprisingly, refinement abounds, though sometimes at the expense of ‘bite’. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2019
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Nominee - Early Music
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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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Huw Watkins: In My Craft or Sullen Art
Paul Watkins (cello), Huw Watkins (piano), Mark Padmore (tenor) & Huw Watkins (piano), Alina Ibragimova (violin), Mark Padmore (tenor)
The Nash Ensemble, Elias Quartet, Ian Brown
What strikes you most about Huw Watkins's music is its natural ease. Lyricism flourishes, and tonal echoes are exposed alongside chromatic scrunches and abrasive textures. —
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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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New Music Collections Vol. 4 - Piano
Thalia Myers (piano), Ian Pace (piano), Noriko Kawai (piano), Rolf Hind (piano), Melvyn Tan (piano), Huw Watkins (piano), Michael Finnissy (piano), Nicky Losseff (piano), Jonathan Powell (piano), Philip Mead (piano), Stephen Montague (piano), Susan Bradshaw (piano), Phyllis Sellick (piano), Roger...
A fascinating survey of contemporary (or near contemporary) piano works, played by expert interpreters, including several of the composers themselves. —
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NMC at 35
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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A Different World
Contemporary works for solo violin and violin & piano
Diana Galvydyte (violin) & Christopher Guild (piano)
An engagingly played programme of works mostly by little-known East European composers, generally sounding no more modern than Prokofiev or even Enescu —
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one notices Keziah's special affinity with the quieter, more introverted shadings, and her poised, painstaking approach to elucidating structure…an imaginatively programmed, winningly played... —
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