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Martin Butler's contribution to the chamber domain has been a significant one. All of these pieces were written over the past decade with the Schubert Ensemble in mind: the earliest being American... —
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John McCabe: Silver Nocturnes
John McCabe (piano), Roderick Williams (baritone), David Pyatt (horn)
Sacconi Quartet
Silver Nocturnes blurs the boundary between string quartet and quintet…Williams has the necessary strength and intensity for the music’s bleak dramaticism. The Horn Quintet (2010-11) confirms... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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Richard Rodney Bennett: Songs Before Sleep
Sophie Daneman (soprano) & Iain Burnside (piano), Roderick Williams (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano), Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano) & Iain Burnside (piano), Benjamin Hulett (tenor) & Oliver Coates (cello)
[Bennett] creates a campy 1920s-ish idiom, well captured by the versatile Iain Burnside...Benjamin Hulett, with Oliver Coates, sings with commendably Pearsian fervour...Susan Bickley adds mezzo... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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Martin Suckling: This Departing Landscape
Tamara Stefanovich (piano), Katherine Bryan (flute), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Ilan Volkov
Bryan is sublime, slicing through fragmented cadenzas and revealing a powerful lower range. Another expert soloist is pianist Tamara Stefanovich, a highly accomplished 20th- and 21st-century... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, Concerto Choice
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Finnissy ultimately transcends the quartet genre...At times, too, you can hear the influence of Haydn, as if through frosted glass, notably in the impish pizzicato passage about a third of the... —
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When these recordings first appeared Birtwistle enthusiasts were still absorbing the impact of three 1986 premieres, Earth Dances, The Mask ofOrpheus and Yan Tan Tethera – works which helped... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1988, Winner - Contemporary
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Robert Simpson: Symphony No. 3
RecommendedBernard Walton (clarinet)
London Symphony Orchestra, The Aeolian String Quartet, Jascha Horenstein
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Building a Library, October 2006, Highly Recommended
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Special offer. Rupert Bawden: The Sailor's Tale
The Nash Ensemble, Alexander Grove (tenor), Flora McIntosh (mezzo), Andrew Heggie (baritone) & The Creake Ensemble
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Rupert Bawden & Gary Cheung
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Michel Tippett - Historic Recordings from the 1940's
Phyllis Sellick, Zorian Quartet, Morley College Choir, Walter Goehr, Sir Michael Tippett
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Six Degrees of Separation
Carmine Lauri, Rebecca Gilliver, Chris Richards, Sam Walton, David Jackson, Tim Jones, David Elton, Niall Keatley, Peter Moore (trombone), Ben Thomson, Neil Percy (percussion), Liz Burley, London Symphony Orchestra, Darren Bloom
All these pieces are performed with total assurance by members of the London Symphony Orchestra. This commendable release is a welcome introduction to a terrific new wave of composing talent. —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2021, Orchestral Choice
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