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George Benjamin: Picture a Day Like This
RecommendedMarianne Crebassa (mezzo-soprano), Beate Mordal (soprano), Cameron Shahbazi (countertenor), John Brancy (baritone), Anna Prohaska (soprano), Mahler Chamber Orchestra, George Benjamin
Less is more in Picture a day like this with a cast of five and just 22 instrumentalists from the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. With every word of the text set to be heard, Marianne Crebassa is... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2024, Opera Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Winners, Contemporary
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Of course, she's brought more maturity, introspection and experience to them subsequently, but these are remarkably poised and absorbing performances for one so young. —
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Special offer. George Benjamin: Written on Skin
Recommendedand Duet for piano and orchestra
Christopher Purves (The Protector), Barbara Hannigan (Agnès), Bejun Mehta (First Angel/Boy), Victoria Simmonds (Second Angel/Marie), Allan Clayton (Third Angel/John), Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, George Benjamin
[Purves] expresses a brooding pride and menace that makes your skin crawl. [Hannigan] makes an electrifying transformation from doe-like submissiveness to sexual predator, and the powerfully... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Finalist - Contemporary
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Premiere Award
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New. Brahms: Clarinet Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 120 No. 1 & Weber: Grand duo concertant for Clarinet & Piano, Op. 48
Jack Brymer (clarinet), David Lloyd (piano)
Brymer's tone is very well-preserved in Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata, Schumann's Fantasy Pieces, Op. 73, Hurlstone's Characteristic Pieces and a graceful reading of the Stanford Clarinet Sonata. —
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Steve Elcock: Symphony No. 8; Violin Concerto
Zoë Beyers (violin), English Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Woods
A thoroughly gripping, involving album, urgently recommended. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Feltsman's seriousness and poetic commitment are never in doubt...he is deeply sensitive to the Nocturnes' fluctuations, their quiet despair and sudden violence...this is Chopin with an edge...we... —
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