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Anderson’s music is always very visceral; one is likely to have a strong reaction (positive or negative) to it. It is fantastically colorful and diverse in the wide range of expressive devices... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Contemporary
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The book teems with subtle cross-references, like the sudden reappearance in the last volume of the
amamzingly Debussian gesture that launched the whole cycle. There are other echoes, too, from... —Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2004, Editor's Choice
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Luke Bedford: in the Voices of the Living
BBC Philharmonic, Juan José Mena, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Knussen, Mark Padmore (tenor), London Sinfonietta, Geoffrey Paterson, Arcis Saxophon Quartett, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Ben Gernon
The quality of performances, as of performers, says much for the respect in which Bedford’s music is held. Aficionados and newcomers alike should investigate this release. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Contemporary
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Helen Grime: Night Songs
Lynsey Marsh (clarinet)
Hallé & Hallé Soloists, Sir Mark Elder & Jamie Phillips
The performances are a tribute to the dedication of Hallé players, whether in orchestral or ensemble guise, and have all been recorded with the spaciousness and immediacy which this music needs. —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2014, Editor's Choice
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The fluctuating dramas in both scores [Orchestral Variations: The Seeds Long Hidden (1994) and Visions and Journeys (2002)] come vividly across, without any of the ponderousness that can seep... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Contemporary
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Colin Matthews
Alexander Baillie (cello)
London Sinfonietta, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, John Carewe, Michael Tilson Thomas
This set offers a rounded portrait of a restlessly questing composer … big architectonic pieces in performances of impressive might under Carewe —
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This well-filled disc deserves success. It is the perfect way to get to know some truly inventive and stimulating music by one of our most important contemporary composers. It should be snapped... —
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Special offer. Birtwistle: Gawain
RecommendedMarie Angel (Morgan le Fay), Anne Howells (Lady de Hautdesert), Francois Le Roux (Gawain), John Tomlinson (The Green Knight/Bertilak de Hautdesert), Penelope Walmsley-Clark (Guinevere), Richard Greager (Arthur), Omar Ebrahim (The Fool), Alan Ewing (Agravain), John Marsden (Ywain), Kevin Smith (Bishop...
Tomlinson pulls off the feat magnificently. There's a deep, grainy quality to his voice that catches the sorrow and cynicism of the Green Knight perfectly...Another strength of this recording... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1996, Winner - Contemporary
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Simon Bainbridge: Fantasia for Double Orchestra
Walter Trampler (viola)
Composers Ensemble, BBC Symphony Orchestra & London Sinfonietta, Michael Tilson Thomas
…the Viola Concerto (1976) remains an astonishingly assured work from one then in his early twenties, not least in the subtle control of tension and textural ingenuity over its two sizeable... —
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Both of these works [the Moeran and the Rawsthorne] benefit, as does the recital as a whole, from superbly responsive playing by Harriet Mackenzie and Philippa Mo - who project the music's often... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2013, Editor's Choice
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