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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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Each work has its own transparency of form and texture which shows an unabashed debt to Britten among other forebears. Yet it’s completely Phibbs’s voice that emerges through his wholly coherent... —
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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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The performances throughout are wonderfully responsive and the Nimbus recording first-rate. This is one of those rare collection discs that one can play through complete very rewardingly, as... —
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