Concertos, Matthews, D (composer)
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This Sonata is virtuoso music and Laura Mikkola is equal to it. Matthews describes her as ‘a marvellous exponent of my music’ and this performance proves the point. It is an exciting work and... —
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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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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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The past is never far away in the Ninth Symphony, a work unafraid to be in dialogue with melody, tonality and tradition. It’s warmly played, as are the string orchestra Variations and Double... —
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Here’s a fresh collection of commissions from the ever-enterprising Madeleine Mitchell. Each one has sprung from a personal connection and shared interested…There’s something brave and touching... —
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Now Comes Beauty
commissions from The English Music Festival
Rupert Marshall-Luck (violin), Roderick Williams (baritone), David Owen Norris (piano)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Gavin Sutherland, Owain Arwel Hughes
A great deal of it is very enjoyable, and perhaps most encouraging of all is the sense that something genuinely new and fresh – rather than just superficially novel – could emerge from this... —
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David Matthews: Concertos
Philippe Graffin (violin), Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Nova, George Vass
The extensive Vivacissimo finale [of the First Violin Concerto]...provides the most breathtaking bravura on the disc, superbly negotiated by Philippe Graffin, whose beauty of tone in the slower,... —
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Mary King, Timothy Robinson, Thalia Myers, Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Kim Walker, Jonty Harrison, Lars Anders Tomter (viola), John Turner (recorder), Steven Schick, Ian Pace (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, The Nash Ensemble, Ixion,...
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Sarah-Jane Bradley, former member of the Sorrel Quartet, is a wonderfully eloquent player and obtains sterling support from her collaborators here. —
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Tecchler's Cello: From Cambridge to Rome
Guy Johnston (cello), Tom Poster (piano), Magnus Johnston (violin), Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello)
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Stephen Cleobury, Carlo Rizzari
Barrière’s amiable Sonata for Two Cellos in G major unites [Johnston] with fellow BBC Young Musicians of the Year Sheku Kanneh-Mason. It’s a delectably nuanced performance, capped by a finale... —
