NMC
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Special offer. Rushton: The Shops
Darren Abrahams (tenor), Anna Dennis (soprano), Phyllis Cannan (contralto), Richard Burkhard (baritone), Louise Mott (mezzo-soprano) & Paul Reeves (bass)
The Opera Group, Patrick Bailey
Patrick Bailey ably conducts the Opera Group’s excellent performance, recorded at live London performances last year. Doubtless, some will buy this disc to keep their NMC collection up to date.... —
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Richard Ayres - NONcertos and others
Wim Timmermans (horn), Marco Blaauw (trumpet)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, ASKO Ensemble, musikFabrik, Roland Kluttig
Ayres's approach appears to reflect Mahler's wish to include everything, but in its episodic spirit Ayres's music comes across as Janacek for the 21st century and, like both composers, it is... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2010, Editor's Choice
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Spark Catchers
Tai Murray (violin), Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano), Chi-chi Nwanoku (double bass), Chineke! Orchestra & Chorus, Roderick Williams (baritone), Chineke! Orchestra, Chineke! Chorus, Anthony Parnther, Kevin John Edusei, Wayne Marshall
Titular track The Spark Catchers was recorded at the BBC Proms in 2017. Hannah Kendall’s sound whirlpool takes its inspiration from Lemn Sissay’s poem of the same name. There is an itchy brooding... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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Georgia Rogers’s York Minster uses pitches derived from the building’s acoustic fingerprint; if that sounds dry and scientific, the result is a haunting processional, giving a sense of the vast... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2018
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Committed playing throughout by the Schubert Ensemble… those who've already acquired the earlier volume need not hesitate: an ideal starting-point to experience the rewards of Chamber Music... —
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John Woolrich: The Ghost in the Machine
Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Lars Anders Tomter (viola)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2001, Editor's Choice
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Michael Zev Gordon: The Impermanence of Things
Michael Zev Gordon, Catherine Larsen-Maguire, Carolin Widmann, Huw Watkins (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, London Sinfonietta, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Ryan Wigglesworth
Gordon says that for years he has been ‘mixing together diverse materials and styles in the same piece’ which sounds easier than it is, and these three works all demonstrate a fine composer’s... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2024, Concerto Choice
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Special offer. Weir: Blond Eckbert
Nerys Jones, Nicholas Folwell, Christopher Ventris (tenor), Anne-Marie Owens (mezzo-soprano), English National Opera, English National Opera Chorus, Sian Edwards
Judith Weir's treatment of Ludwig Tieck's story Blond Eckbert creates a compelling world… with its own ingenious methods of narration, and a strong sense of movement towards an inescapable and... —
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Among the highlights are Mark-Anthony Turnage's unsettling Black Milk (a setting of Paul Celan's Todesfuge, where jazz singer Ian Shaw's grainy vocals are appropriately curdling) and Ninfea... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2022
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these portrait collections tend to be of an extremely high standard – indeed Ryan Latimer’s offering impresses for its breadth and quality...Rather than attempt filmic scene-painting [in Moby... —
