Chamber, Trios, Birtwistle (composer)
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[The Duet for Eight Strings] has been extended since its first performance in 2019 and now spans almost twenty minutes, during which everything and nothing happens. The piece is brightly coloured,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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Special offer. Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale
Harrison Birtwistle (The Soldier), George Benjamin (The Devil), Dame Harriet Walter (narrator)
Royal Academy of Music, Oliver Knussen
It’s recorded in a way to convey to the maximum both the poetic detail and the expert pacing of Knussen’s finely-pointed reading, and to give full rein to Dame Harriet’s wonderfully free-spirited... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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Special offer. Harrison Birtwistle: Chamber Music
Amy Freston (soprano), Adrian Brendel (cello), Lisa Batiashvili (violin), Till Fellner (piano), Roderick Williams (baritone)
All one can do with music as esoteric as this is to remember the greatness of what Birtwistle has written before and go on listening...The singer of what sounds like an extraordinary difficult... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Contemporary
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Melinda Maxwell - Composer and Oboist
Melinda Maxwell (oboe), Michael Dussek (piano), Nicholas Rodwell (clarinet), Clio Gould & Hannah Perowne (violins), Andrew Watts (counter- tenor, Catherine Bullock & Rose Redgrave (violas), Jonathan Ayling & Susie Winkworth (cellos), Helen Tunstall & Hugh Webb (harps), Richard Benjafield...
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Ruhr Piano Festival Edition Vol. 14: Mozart, Variations & New Piano Music
Christina Chamorel & Siegfried Mauser (piano), Guiseppe Andaloro (piano), Sun-Wook Kim (piano), Elena Bashkirova (piano), Matthias Glander (clarinet), Felix Schwartz (viola), Severin von Eckardstein (piano), Andrea Lieberknecht (flute), Andrej Bielow (violin), Nicolas Altsteadt (cello), Herbert...
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Melos Ensemble: Music among Friends
The Complete EMI Recordings
Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), Emanuel Hurwitz (violin), Ivor McMahon (violin), Cecil Aronowitz (viola), Terence Weil (cello), Lamar Crowson (piano), Peter Graeme (oboe)
Neil Sanders (horn), William Waterhouse (bassoon), James Buck (horn), Adrian Beers (double bass), Kenneth Sillito (violin),...
There is plenty of individual personality in the music-making here, but how beautifully these fine musicians blend together as a group...the polished elegance and charm of their playing cannot... —
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