Chamber, Quartets, Birtwistle (composer)
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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... —
Awards:
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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The Ardittis have mastered the constant turning on dimes that this mercurial writing demands, moving effortlessly between different dynamics and attacks, while still keeping the music tightly... —
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Special offer. Arditti String Quartet: Gifts and Greetings
All works are world premeire recordings
Arditti String Quartet
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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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