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Huw Watkins: In My Craft or Sullen Art
Paul Watkins (cello), Huw Watkins (piano), Mark Padmore (tenor) & Huw Watkins (piano), Alina Ibragimova (violin), Mark Padmore (tenor)
The Nash Ensemble, Elias Quartet, Ian Brown
What strikes you most about Huw Watkins's music is its natural ease. Lyricism flourishes, and tonal echoes are exposed alongside chromatic scrunches and abrasive textures. —
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although Barrett's music is indeed dark, it is also many other things, often at the same time: playful, unnerving and often surprisingly transparent...Composer and performers seem wonderfully... —
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Howard, Emily: Zátopek!
Kris Belligh (baritone), Susanne Dymott (contralto), Wendy Dawn Thompson (mezzo-soprano), John McMunn (tenor), Peter Brathwaite (baritone), Rosie Coad (soprano), Toby Girling (baritone)
Ensemble 10/10, Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Choir, Clark Rundell
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Elliott Carter: 103rd Birthday Concert
Rolf Schulte (violin), Fred Sherry (cello), Richard O'Neill (viola), Virgil Blackwell (bass clarinet), Bridget Kibbey (harp), Marie Tachouet (flute), Peter Evans (trumpet), Jim Pugh (trombone), Stephen Gosling (piano), Mike Truesdell (percussion), Peter Kolkay (bassoon), Mike Truesdell (marimba),...
The performances by a cast of Carter devotees are flawless —
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Philip Cashian: The House Of Night
Christopher Redgate (oboe), Darrett Adkins (cello), Sarah Nicholls (piano)
Northern Sinfonia, Sainsbury Royal Academy Soloists, Royal Academy of Music Cello Ensemble, Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, London Sinfonietta
Always in Cashian, he bids for your attention with something striking, then takes you with him and makes you listen...Best of all is the Piano Concerto, which has drawn me back to it many times...terrific... —
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Mark Bowden: Sudden Light
Oliver Coates (cello), Hyeyoon Park (violin) & Huw Watkins (piano), Julian Warburton (percussion)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Grant Llewellyn
the systems Bowden sets up [in Sudden Light] generate climaxes of great power, and his confidence in handling such large orchestral forces is unmistakable. —
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Errollyn Wallen: Photography
Matthew Sharp (cello), Tim Harries (bass guitar)
Ensemble X, The Continuum Ensemble & Ensemble X, Quartet X, Nicholas Kok, Philip Headlam, Errollyn Wallen
The English pastoral tradition appears [with] the extended opening soliloquy of her 2007 Cello Concerto rising and hovering like a lark ascending. Snippets of Bachian figuration, Britten-ish... —
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Martin Butler: Dirty Beasts
Martin Butler (piano) & Simon Callow (narrator)
New London Chamber Ensemble & Navarra Quartet
Simon Callow is splendid as the narrator and the New London Chamber Ensemble play with verve and commitment…the music has such immediacy and charm and fluency that, for once, the annotations... —
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Molitor, C: The Singing Bridge
Claudia Molitor (narrator), S.J. Fowler (narrator)
AK/DK, Stick in the Wheel
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