Instrumental, Violin Solos, Watkins, H (composer)
-
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. —
-
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 —
