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Judith Weir: the Vanishing Bridegroom
Stephen Jeffes (narrator), Andrew Murgatroyd (vocals), Christopher Bowen (tenor), Edward Goater (tenor), Edward Price (baritone), Jonathan Lemalu (baritone), Ailish Tynan (soprano), Owen Gilhooly (baritone), Andrew Tortise (tenor), Nicolas Simeha (baritone), Jonathan Saunders (bass), Paul Haas-Curievici...
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Most characterful of these 11 variations are Anthony Payne's 'Loose Canon'...and Richard Rodney Bennett's touching and poignantly harmonised 'Little Elegy'. —
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Digital Discoveries 7: Standing Jump
Andrew Sparling (clarinet), Thalia Myers (piano), Victoria Johnson (violin)
[rout], Apartment House, Vanitas
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James Dillon - The Soadie Waste
Irvine Arditti (violin), Noriko Kawai (piano) & Hiroaki Takenouchi (piano)
Arditti Quartet
The 27-year period covered by this group of compositions, taking James Dillon from his mid-twenties to his early fifties, could hardly fail to outline substantial changes. Dillug-Kefitsah (1976)... —
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Goehr: Piano Concerto
Peter Serkin (piano)
London Sinfonietta, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Knussen, Richard Bernas
So well performed and recorded. This is one of the most substantial and rewarding of NMC's recent releases —
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This is flintily expressionistic music, needle-sharp in texture, superbly scored, and powerfully projected in this BBC performance by Martyn Brabbins, who conducted the premiere both of this... —
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Colin Matthews - Divertimenti
Brindisi Quartet, Schubert Ensemble, Haffner Wind Ensemble & Divertimenti Ensemble, Oliver Knussen
Contemporary composers sink or swim in a sea of perplexingly diverse memories and stimuli – a condition that has been particularly acute since the 1970s. These chamber works from the 1980s show... —
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The violent end of the world is perhaps dark enough matter for Richard Barrett. His interference for contrabass clarinet, male voice and pedal bass drum firmly punctuates the piece with short,... —
