Concertos, Casken (composer)
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This well-filled disc deserves success. It is the perfect way to get to know some truly inventive and stimulating music by one of our most important contemporary composers. It should be snapped... —
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As so often in Casken's evocative but rigorous music, the inspiration for Orion Over Farne (1984-86) is Northumberland – the Farne Islands – as well as Greek myth...A disc of vitality and contrast,... —
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New Stock - Sampler
William Howard (piano), Lucy Shelton, Sarah Leonard (soprano), Eileen Hulse, David White, John Wallace (trumpet), Marcia Crayford, Chi-chi Nwanokwu, Ian Brown, Manoug Parikian, Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano), Anton Lukoszevieze (cello), Corrado Canonici, Alexander Baillie (cello), William Conway, Ernst...
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Bartok, Casken, Beethoven
Thomas Zehetmair (violin), Ruth Killius (viola), Northern Sinfonia (chamber ensemble)
The orchestra shows off its own credentials in Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, which starts at a terrific lick, and is incredibly exciting. It takes a little while to settle in rhythmic detail,... —
