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Prime Cuts - Sampler
Mary King, Timothy Robinson, Thalia Myers, Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Kim Walker, Jonty Harrison, Lars Anders Tomter (viola), John Turner (recorder), Steven Schick, Ian Pace (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, The Nash Ensemble, Ixion,...
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[In James Dillon's 'A Roaring Flame'] the Gaelic and Provencal texts and sinuous vocal line give the music a haunting beauty, which is realised with superb concentration by both performers. —
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Buller combines ferocious, sonorous immediacy with complex intellectual subtexts... there is a psychedelic glitter to the score of Proença. —
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Mixed - Electroacoustic Collection 2
Hein Pijnenburg (bass clarinet) and Michael Rosas Cobian (tape), Joseph Hyde (tape), James Crabb (free bass accordion) and John Kefala-Kerr (tape), Rajmil Fischmann (tape), Agustin Fernandez (charango & tape), Sarah Collins (tape)
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Nigel Osborne: I am Goya, Flute Concerto, Remembering Esenin
Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Duke Dobing (flute), Florian Kitt (cello) and Peter Hill (piano), Jane Manning (soprano)
City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
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It is good to have [these] excellent recordings of two of the composer's major orchestral works resurrected from their Collins Classics grave by the ever welcome new-music specialist label NMC —
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Goehr: Sing, Ariel
Sarah Leonard and Eileen Hulse (sopranos), Lucy Shelton (soprano)
Ensemble, CUMS Chorus, Oliver Knussen, Stephen Cleobury
Sing Ariel is a marvellous song cycle for soprano. There's a vast range of texture and mood, often expressed through the simplest means —
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John Woolrich - Lending Wings
Mary Wiegold (soprano), Jane Atkins (viola), Mark van de Wiel (clarinet), Jane Atkins (viola) and Catherine Edwards (piano)
Composers Ensemble, Brodsky Quartet, Diego Masson
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Klang - Electroacoustic Collection 1
Jonty Harrison (tape), Julian Siegel (soprano sax) and Mike Vaughan (tape), Alistair Macdonald (tape), Jane Chapman (harpsichord) and Mike Vaughan (tape), Alistair Macdonald & Nicholas Virgo (tape)
