Concertos, Wright, C (composer)
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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 (new edition)
and works by Christopher Wright
Fenella Humphreys (violin), Christopher Watson (tenor)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Martin Yates
Wright's idiom - both listener-friendly and superbly skilled, with never a wasted note - has no problems sustaining a 35-minute design. Violinist Fenella Humphreys responds to its elegiac reflection... —
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, Orchestral Choice
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Evocation - String and Orchestral Music by Christopher Wright
Recorded: Angel Studios, London, 15 March 2007 & 9 July 2007; St Thomas’ Church, Stockport, 19 January 2009
Maxwell Spiers (cor anglais), John Turner (treble recorder)
Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Manchester Sinfonia, Gavin Sutherland, Barry Wordsworth, Christopher Wright
a sequence of attractive works in a relatively conservative idiom...[The Idyll and Divertimento are] beautifully played by the Manchester Sinfonia conducted by the composer. —
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Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, Cyril Scott, Christopher Wright & Elis Pehkonen: Oboe Concertos
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
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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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British Cello Concertos
All Premiere Recordings
Raphael Wallfisch (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, William Boughton
[Wallfisch's] characteristically assured and deeply felt advocacy is matched by a lively and committed response from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales...The disc's substantial centrepiece... —
