Choral, Birtwistle (composer)
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Birtwistle: The Moth Requiem
RecommendedRoderick Williams (baritone)
BBC Singers & Nash Ensemble, Nicholas Kok
This is a wonderful and important release of his powerful and often delicate works. Best, perhaps, to begin with On the Sheer Threshold of the Night, which is a kind of spin-off from The Mask... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Contemporary
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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…this outstanding issue celebrates 20 years of carols newly commissioned for the annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. The two CDs are stuffed with memorable settings - Jonathan Dove's... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2005, Christmas Special Choice
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Boulez A-Z: Berg - Birtwistle
Daniel Barenboim (piano), Pinchas Zukerman (violin), Mitsuko Uchida (piano), Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Anna Prohaska (soprano), Gerd Nienstedt (bass), Wolf-Dieter Karwatky (videoscripteditor), Teresa Stratas (soprano, vocalist), Kenneth Riegel (tenor), Robert Tear (tenor), Franz Mazura (baritone),...
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New Music Collections Vol. 1 - Choral
Howard Skempton (accordion), Michael Finnissy (piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, BBC Singers, EXAUDI, Bach Choir Philharmonia, Ex Cathedra, Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, Cambridge University Musical Society Chorus, London Sinfonietta, London Sinfonietta Voices, Simon Halsey, John Poole,...
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Signum Digital Sampler
James Rhodes (piano), Matthew Barley (cello), Llŷr Williams (piano), Julian Bliss (clarinet), Miah Persson (soprano), Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin), David Goode (organ)
Charivari Agreable, Chapelle du Roi, Vasari Singers, Philharmonia Orchestra, Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wroclaw Philharmonic...
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Birtwistle - Orpheus Elegies
Melinda Maxwell (oboe), Helen Tunstall (harp), Andrew Watts (counter-tenor) with Claire Seaton (soprano), William Stafford and Tom Verity (clarinets/bass clarinets) & Ben Fullbrook (marimba)
The range of musical processes and the power with which Birtwistle invest the writing is extraordinary. The pieces seem like snapshots from different perspectives of some vast, barely graspable... —
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Kathleen Ferrier Centenary Edition - The Complete Decca Recordings
Kathleen Ferrier (Contralto), John Tilbury (Prepared Piano), Timothy Hutchins (Flute), John Harle (Saxophone), Paul Clarvis (Percussion), Glyndebourne Festival Chorus (Chorus), Zoe Vlachopoulos (Soprano), Southern Philharmonic Orchestra (Narrator), Ann Ayars (Soprano), Elsie Suddaby (Soprano), Eric...
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