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Awesome performances —
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With engaging performances and clear, crisp recordings, this disc serves Gilbert's cause admirably. Other companies please take note —
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To hear this carnality in an orchestra is almost shocking. So much western classical use of the orchestral has
been manipulative or representational, it is wonderful to hear it step out on its... — -
A valuable disc... The Bingham String Quartet enhance their reputation as one of the best of the younger groups around, and the recordings are admirable in their naturalness and clarity. —
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Finnissy's Red Earth is built from shifting blocks, smears and shocks of sound. It develops through primeval evolutions - eruptions, blossomings, ominous undulations - rather than crafted convolutions,... —
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Philip Cashian - Dark Inventions
Mark van de Wiel (clarinet), Lyn Fletcher (violin) and Sally Bishop (piano), Mary King (mezzo)
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Stefan Asbury
Enthralling from first note to last. —
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The music has real integrity, and in its climactic moments a fierce dramatic power —
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This is an enthralling disc. From the initial high trombone swoops of Maldon to the final fervent soprano lines of Anima Christi this music grips heart, mind and imagination alike. Exaudi... —
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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... —
