Chamber, Sonatas, Matthews, D (composer)
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Trickey’s Telemann is authoritative and stylish, and her Prokofiev is ebullient...Amidst stylistic versatility, Trickey’s album also serves as a testament to the creativity of contemporary British... —
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Written specifically for Sara Trickey, Adonis suits her lightly-worn lyricism, and she and her pianist Daniel Tong play this three movement work with evident affection…Trickey and Tong’s highly... —
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Antony Hopkins: A Portrait
Michael Hampton (piano), Matthew Jones (viola), James Gilchrist (tenor), Janet Simpson (piano), Paul Barritt (violin), Philip Fowke (piano), John Turner (recorder), Lesley-Jane Rogers (soprano), Stephanie Voss (vocals), Phillida Sewell (soprano), Jeremy Brett (tenor), Antony Hopkins (piano), Stephen...
it is good to discover another mid-20th-century composer who wants to please the ordinary music lover and has rejected atonalism. The present anthology shows his range and his consistently seductive... —
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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... —
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Few current violinists can claim as wide a repertoire and as active a policy of commissioning as Sheppard Skærved, and the present disc offers an excellent and often surprising overview of his... —
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Beethoven Plus Volume II
plus companion pieces by K. Schwertsik, M. Taylor, P. Ashworth, D. Matthews
Krysia Osostowicz (violin), Daniel Tong (piano)
Some of the new works play their part better than others…The Beethoven recordings sound very much ‘as live’, with the odd passing blemish left as it is – but I’d certainly put up with that for... —
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Toccata has shown sterling commitment to Matthews’ productive oeuvre. It is no coincidence that the music is fully worthy of such staunch promotion. —
